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Ontario Racing Officials Suspend Trainer, Groom David Brown, Alexander" McWer Fail to Protect Drugged Horse By Staff Correspondent TORONTO, Ontario, May 30. The trainer and groom of a horse whose urinalysis revealed the presence of 3. after winning a race at Old Woodbine May 21 have each been suspended for two months by the Ontario Racing Commission. David ONeill Brown, trainer of the liorse Whirling Home, and groom Alexander Mciver were set down in rulings issued by the commission under the date of May 27. The owner of Whirling Home, Gerald Raymond, was held blameless and his other horses were declared eligible to race in Ontario since they have been placed in the care of a trainer approved by the, ORC. Whirling Home finished in a dead-heat for first place in the sixth race at Old Woodbine May 21. The commission said that a urinalysis later reevaled the presence of a drug of the nature of procaine. Mciver was suspended an additional month, effective July 27, when his present two-month penalty expires, for being under the influence of alcohol in the winners circle after the May 21 race. Both Brown and Mciver were suspended by the commission for "failing properly to protect the horse and guard it against the administration of a medication or drug."
