The Fine Cotton racing scandal is one of Australia's most infamous cases of horse racing fraud, involving a horse switch scheme gone disastrously wrong in 1984.A syndicate of gamblers, led by John Gillespie, planned to substitute a slow racehorse named Fine Cotton with a faster, lookalike horse named Bold Personality to win a race at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse. The idea was to bet big on the long-shot and cash in when the faster horse won. However, the two horses looked nothing alike, so in a last-minute panic, they dyed Bold Personality’s coat and used hair dye and white paint to fake identifying markings.
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So this guy is about to pull off one of the biggest scandals in horse racing history. Now the guy's name is John and John is Australian and bro is just kind of a turd. He's always trying to con people, he's been convicted a ton of times for it and now he's in prison.
But one day in 1984 he's chilling in his cell or whatever and he comes up with a crazy idea to con a ton of people and make more money than he's ever made in his life. He's going to finesse a horse race. So as soon as he gets out of prison he buys a really fast racing horse. A horse named Dashing Solitaire. Then he buys a slow ass racing horse.
A horse who's terrible with a bad racing record and who's never won anything. This horse named Fine Cotton. So now he's got a fast horse and a slow horse. The important thing is that they both look alike. And his plan is to enter the slow horse, the one with a bad racing record, into a big horse race. So that the odds stack up against it.
Then, at the last second, he's gonna swap out the slow horse for the much faster horse. Then the fast horse will win the race and he'll make a ton of money by betting on himself. Not a bad plan. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot can go wrong. So he and some goons of his, they enter this slow horse, fine cotton, in a big upcoming race. And John, well, he's not the smartest guy.
A smart guy would enact this plan and not tell anyone about it for fear of getting caught. But that's not the kind of guy John is. John is out here blabbing and telling all kinds of people he's got this scheme going on, including some very powerful people and allegedly some mafia types.
So all of these people, including the mafia types, they know he's pulling this scam and they're all about to bet on this horse and make themselves some money. Ein paar Tage bevor das große Rennen, kommen sie zu einem Problem. Das Fast Horse, der Horsen, der den Rennen gewinnen soll, ist einfach draußen in seiner Karalle, macht Horsen-Tipps, was auch immer Horsen tun.
Und plötzlich, boom, erscheinen wilde Kangaroos aus dem Nichts. Und das Dashing Solitaire ist so, oh Scheiße! Und er wird überrascht und fliegt weg. Und kapow, er wird in ein paar Barbed Wire getangelt. So jetzt ist er verletzt und er kann in der großen Runde nicht mehr kämpfen, also ist das Dashing Solitaire raus. Und John ist so, verdammt, was soll ich jetzt tun?
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