THE Fine Cotton rort was a farcical failure with comic overtones that never quite hid racing’s dark underside in the 1980s. Now Australia’s biggest “ring-in” scandal has been revived by the death of ...
IN August 1984, a struggling race horse known as Fine Cotton left jaws on the floor after storming to a shock victory at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse. Officials investigated after Bold Personality ...
THE mastermind of the Fine Cotton ring-in now claims the scam was an elaborate "double sting" that earned him $1.8 million. Fine Cotton, a plodder racehorse, earned infamy in August, 1984, when a ...
It was a darkly comic criminal conspiracy playing out all too openly against the menacing background of Sydney’s gangland and Queensland corruption. The one person not in on the crazy secret was the ...
IN August 1984, a struggling race horse known as Fine Cotton left jaws on the floor after storming to a shock victory at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse. But all wasn’t as it seemed… Please provide a ...
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