Dogs on speed but accountants not fast-tracking

IF the odds are low at the dog track, it might be ’cos the greyhounds are high on speed.

Not speed in the literal sense, but rather the amphetamine drug, resulting in some four-legged racers going tripping with the hare and getting spaced out with the other hounds.

Last year after-race drug tests by the greyhound racing authority found five dogs had been given amphetamines, a lucid and clear-headed Dáil watchdog heard yesterday.