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PURCHASE HORSE FOR TEST Omaha Seeking to Control Drug Evil Saliva Test to Be Applied Appliedto to Winners OMAHA Neb May 6 The Nebraska State Racing Commission is going to make a guinea pig out of a race horse The com ¬ mission has purchased a thoroughbred run ¬ ner and presented it to Dr R B Willard chief state chemist to be used in experi ¬ mental work seeking a better control of ofI the evil doping I I Experiments with various types of stim ¬ ulants will continue until the Omaha Ak SarBen meeting opens May 27 and the find ¬ ings will be turned over to Dr C C Hall the official veterinarian at AkSarBen AkSarBenJ J B Rossiter chairman of the state rac ¬ ing commission said the commission felt further experiments in devising preventa tive measures to doping were in order de ¬ spite AkSarBens fine record in curbing the dope evil evilAkSarBen AkSarBen has been fortunate in dodg ¬ ing the dopers by the simple measure of refusing applications of questionable sta ¬ bles Rossiter said However the state commission believes further experiments will assist both AkSarBen officials and sponsors of the other meetings throughout the state stateThe The saliva test is used at AkSarBen though the wirtner of every race is not sub ¬ jected to the test The stewards order tests made wherever sudden form reversals in ¬ dicate a possibility of tampering tamperingW W H Schellberg chairman of AkSar Bens racing committee put his stamp of approval on the experiments experimentsAkSarBen AkSarBen will always champion any action making for better racing and cleaner sport he said AkSarBen is jealous or the record it has established for honest racing and already this spring several stables under suspicion have been refused stable space spaceWith With the arrival here next week of rac ¬ ing secretary Julius G Reeder from Cali I fornia the tempo will quicken in prepar ¬ ing for the meeting
