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The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History

By Nick Townsend
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By Nick Townsend
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The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975, Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called Yellow Sam. It cost the bookmakers millions of pounds. They said that it could never happen again. But in May 2010, 35 years after his first coup, Curley staged the ultimate multimillion pound-winning sequel. The Sure Thing tells the complete story of how h...

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