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...took the stewards at Louisville's Churchill Downs race track 43 hours of interrogation and deliberation to decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the case. They awarded first place (plus the $122,600 purse) to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass. They suspended the Dancer's trainer, Lou Cavalaris, and his assistant, Robert Barnard, for 30 days. They issued a tight-lipped statement that spoke of "certain...
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...
Calling the track stewards' decision "completely unsatisfactory," Fuller's attorney filed an appeal last week with the racing commission-a 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...
...structure and internal government of departments gets slightly fuller treatment, but the Committee here is very circumspect in its recommendations. It acknowledges that the alienation of junior from senior Faculty, their "exclusion from discussions of curriculum . . . and social isolation" is "the most painful aspect of their life at Harvard...