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Morgan Refutes Charges Of Stimulation Increase IncreaseNew New York Chemist Says Detection Of Narcotic in Analyses Is Rarity RarityJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y May 8 Charges that stimulation of race horses by the use of narcotics was prevalent at major race tracks growing out of the pending Earl Sande case were bluntly denied today by the man whose business is to see that such practices are not employed and who supervised the tests that revealed the pres ¬ ence of an opium derivative in the saliva taken from Sandes Big Stage at Jamaica on April 21 21Commissioner Commissioner Harry J Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was quoted in newspaper articles yesterday as saying that enforcement of rules against horse doping are lax in every section of the country that has an important race course Charles E Morgan in charge of the New York Racing Commission laboratory and president of the Association of Official Racing Chem ¬ ists stated that to his knowledge doping is at a minimum and that the use of nar ¬ cotics for that purpose has almost entirely stopped stoppedThe The severe penalties that have been as ¬ sessed in recent years against convicted dopers have served as an effective deter ¬ rent said Morgan More samples than ever before are being analyzed by the member chemists of our association and the detection of a narcotic is a rarity rarityThe The Association of Official Racing Chemists is an international organization whose members in the United States do the laboratory work for the racing commissions in nearly all of the important racing states statesI I am sure Morgan continued that racing associations commissions and rep ¬ utable horsemen everywhere as well as the chemists would welcome an investigation by the Bureau None of the reports of in ¬ creased doping said to have reached the bureau have bene passed on to us On the contrary information as regards to the use of a narcotic in the recent case cited by Commissioner Anslinger originated in the New York commissions laboratory and full cooperation was extended to the agents of the Bureau of Narcotics in their investigation of the case caseSpencer Spencer Drayton chief of the Thorough ¬ bred Racing Protective Bureau also denied Anslingers charge that the drugging of thoroughbreds was widespread at American tracks Since this bureau was established more than two years ago there have been only five or six reports of the use of nar ¬ cotics said Drayton The Earle Sande case was the only one that stood up on in ¬ vestigation
