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Originally Posted by Kasept
What? Commander Ross and 'Hard Guy' Bedwell are "mentioned quite frequently by historical writers when they discuss doped-up horses"? Where would that be?
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Several times in Dorothy Ours "Man-O-War" biography, in another Man-O-War bio I've read (will have to dig it up), and I saw it first in an old magazine article about the horse (Blood-Horse? can't recall.)
Edit: Aside from the incident you mentioned, Ours discusses Bedwell in conjunction with a series of drugging incidents - cocaine - at Latonia (which caused Bedwell to be ruled off - he was later reinstated)
And Edward Bowen discusses doping and Bedwell in "Masters of the Turf".
Ah, found the original: New York Times, August 25, 1910: Guy Bedwell denied reinstatement after disbarment in KY for horse appearing "crazed" ("suffering the effect of a drug" that Bedwell later said was cocaine) in paddock before race
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...6E9C946196D6CF
(search NYT online archives, enter "Bedwell" or "Sir Barton" as search terms - lots of old racing articles available)