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Cocaine sales witnessed at Royal Ascot - 2005/12/15 22:01
An article that appeared in The Evening Standard reports journalists observed numerous instances of cocaine use at the Royal Ascot meet this week.
Some undercover reporters were asked if they wanted to buy cocaine on several occasions - sometimes just yards from the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot racetrack.
Based on those anecdotal accounts, reporters for the Evening Standard followed up on their suspicions and took swabs samples from 9 lavatories around the racetrack - including the Royal potties.
The swabs were then sent out to a lab to be analyzed. Seven out of the nine samples came back from the lab testing positive for cocaine - including five out of six taken from cubicles at the Royal Enclosure - compelling scientific evidence of widespread drug abuse at the heart of the Establishment gathering.
The head of the Scientifics` forensic team who did the testing said: " We can confirm that there was extensive use of cocaine in the Royal Enclosure."
Several tell-tale signs of cocaine usage were first observed by reporters last year. People were seen exiting the lavatories, checking and wiping their noses of any traces of powder in the mirror. From inside the in the Royal Enclosure two women emerged, one winking at the other, as her friend whispered: "I can`t feel anything." ?? "Don`t worry," her friend replied, "you will soon. This is pure stuff."
The women - in their late twenties - left giggling to rejoin friends outside, clearly giddy they had just snorted coke in the "Queen`s loo".
Meanwhile uniformed police and stewards stood nearby, apparently oblivious to what was going on. One drug dealer said, "The police aren`t going to do anything. They don`t come into the toilets or check up. They just stroll around outside, it`s easy."
Reporters were offered cocaine on several occasions in the course of the extended five-day meeting`s opening day.
The point of posting this article is is not to single out and denigrate British racing, because drug use at tracks is common place. It`s certainly nothing new to American racing - if anything, it`s even more prevalent - but it`s open tolerance at tracks is rarely reported on, and that is a disgrace.
Racing establishments that tolerate open drug sales on it`s premises is symptomatic of a potentially more ominous problem. Witness the recent millions in cocaine money that was laundered through bookmakers on UK tracks.
If an unsophisticated observer can witness unchecked drug sales in the open, one wonders why police the can`t? This is not the first time the problem has been called to the attention of authorities, the matter came before Parliament last year when similar cocaine sales were first observed at Royal Ascot - a track owned by the royal family and leased to a non-profit operating entity.
Although the track is not directly run by the royals, the Queen still feels quite comfortable issuing enforceable edicts on dress code turning away well known rock star, Rod Stewart.
It seems to this observer, the Queen need to issue a few more edicts concerning drug sales on racetrack premises. I don`t care if it is technically royal property, as long as royals still get millions in taxpayer support, they need to take a more responsible stand on this matter.
With a lax attitude like that, it`s easy to see how money launderers, race-fixers, and criminal elements have emerged from the shadows at other tracks and have taken advantage of the situation. If dope dealers feel they are in an environment where they know they won`t be harassed, they`re then free to mingle with, wine and dine, and corrupt the racetrack workers, management, jocks, and racing regulators they eventually get to know at the track.
The recent race-fixing and doping allegation occurred at Cheltenham, a track OWNED by the Jockey Club. The Jockey club insists that these matters are a thing of the past, yet they filed a suit that kept a BBC documentary from airing. Can you say CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
Reports indicate the subject of the Panorama expose will deal will the the criminal infiltration in the sport of horse racing and the Jockey Club`s failure to police the sport effectively. Can you say FOXES GUARDING THE CHICKEN COOP?
England still has a chance to control this menace because these events are at least being reported on. In America the majority of turf writers are on the racetrack payroll or are too cowardly and intimidated by racing`s ruling fascist power structure to write stories like this. ??
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