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...stewards apparently did not buy that notion. By suspending Cavalaris, and particularly Assistant Trainer Barnard, they suggested a belief that Dancer's Image had indeed received additional Butazolidin-probably sometime between Tuesday night and Thursday night preceding the Derby. During that period, Cavalaris was in Fort Erie, Ontario, tending to other horses in his string, and Barnard was in charge of Dancer's Image. However, by failing to penalize Harthill and giving only token suspensions to the trainers (they could have been barred for life), the stewards indicated they had no proof 1) that a second dose...
Could somebody unconnected with Fuller's stable have given Dancer's Image the drug-either purposely or mistakenly? Before last week's hearing, Owner Fuller complained of "gross negligence" in the security arrangements at Churchill Downs, and hinted: "Someone may have gotten to the horse." Although Fuller has received some hate mail lately-for donating $62,000 of Dancer's Image's winnings to Martin Luther King's widow-the idea that a stranger purposely drugged the horse is farfetched. Butazolidin is neither a stimulant nor a sedative; it cannot make a good race...
Could the post-Derby urinalysis have been in error? Could Dancer's Image's urine sample have been tampered with or mixed up with a specimen from some other horse? Kentucky's drug-testing methods came under severe attack at last week's hearing from Fuller and his attorney, Arthur Grafton. They questioned both the security in the laboratory and the accuracy of its analysis. When Owner Fuller demanded some of the specimen for an independent analysis, he was told, sorry, it had all been used in the original tests...
...move that at least will assure publication of all the facts: unlike the stewards, the commission must hold an open hearing. And if that appeal fails, Fuller & Co. can then take their case to the courts (possibly all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court), where anything could happen. Dancer's Image could even win the Kentucky Derby after all. Last October, an appellate court in Ohio ruled that Butazolidin could not be regarded as an illegal drug-because it had not been proved to affect a horse's performance in a race...
Scramble snapped with gaiety and humor, dominated by Cunningham him self, who looked like a king-sized elf swiveting in a high wind - and by the taut, controlled eroticism of his beautiful leading dancer, Carolyn Brown...