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SALIVA TESTS AT WHEELING Winners and Other Suspected Horses to Be Examined — Mahony Will Conduct Mutuel Department. WHEELING, W. Va., May 19.— The saliva test which was first introduced to racing at Florida tracks in the season of 1934-35 by Walter H. Donovan, president of the West Virginia Jockey Club, who was then racing commissioner of the state of Florida, will again be used at Wheeling Downs this Spring. Dr. C. C. Henrie, who has been in charge of this work for some time at Ohio tracks, will handle the laboratory work on the saliva tests hore. Horsemen and humanitarians alike have endorsed the use of the saliva test and it has done much to place horse racing on a much higher plane. With the use of the saliva test, the cry that a horse or a winner has been doped, can not properly be made. TAKE SPECIMEN. Immediately following every race, track attendants will take a specimen of the saliva of the winner and any other horse that the stewards might have under suspicion. These specimens are placed in a sealed phial and sent to Dr. C. C. Henrie who will subject them to chemical analysis and the findings, if unfavorable, will result in drastic action on the part of the stewards. The handle by the pari-mutuel department will be under the supervision and check of the state auditors department. Mortimer M. Mahony, dean of American mutuels managers, will again take over the reins of the Wheeling Dov/ns mutuels department and will have, as his superintendent, James Con-sidine who will directly handle the operation of that department. . »
