The Fine Cotton fiasco : the behind the scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race
Hoysted, Peter2019
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Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong? In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how, through a combination of horrendous mismanagement, terrible judgement and comically bad luck, the scheme gradually unravelled. How did a horse with white painted socks dripping onto the turf come to hold the hopes of punters across Australia and beyond? How was a supposedly secret plan so widely advertised that even the Queensland Commissioner of Police placed a bet? And how much of a cover-up ensued in the aftermath of this absolute debacle? The story of Fine Cotton is the stuff of Australian legend. It features hardcore crims, likeable rogues and a supporting cast that ranged from the hapless to the hopeless – with some entirely innocent bystanders thrown in for good measure. Not every crazy scheme cooked up by a couple of inmates in Boggo Road Gaol would culminate in a story that will be told across the nation for the next hundred years. But this one did.
Main title:
The Fine Cotton fiasco : the behind the scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race / by Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil ; read by Shane Jacobson.
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Edition:
Complete and unabridged.
Imprint:
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2019.℗2019.
Collation:
6 audio discs (CD) (6 hr., 56 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Notes:
"The behind-the-scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race, the drunken buffoons who organised it and how they set themselves on a collision course with Sydney gangsters and Queensland's corrupt cops"--Cover.
Performers:
Read by Shane Jacobson.
ISBN:
9780655618713
Dewey class:
798.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Fine Cotton, (Race horse)Bold Personality, (Race horse)Organized crime -- AustraliaHorse racing -- QueenslandOrganized crime -- Australia -- QueenslandSwindlers and swindling -- AustraliaBook-making (Betting)Police corruption -- Australia -- QueenslandHorse racing -- Australia -- Corrupt practicesHorse racing -- Betting -- QueenslandGangsters -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
BRN:
373780
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