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Historical race fixing - did I imagine this?

  • 07-06-2017 9:50am
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    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    Talking to a friend recently about a race fixing occurrence that happened probably late 80s or 90s. It involved a spectator at the rails with some sort of electronic device (sonar, laser?) that he used to disrupt the other horses in the race. UK or Irish racing I think.

    I've tried to find it on Google but no luck. Did I dream this up? Am I remembering a movie and not real life?


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    Harry Angstrom
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    Ile De Chypre, Royal Ascot 1988.


  • #3
    diomed
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    I'm guessing someone had a bet on it. :pac:

    A toilet roll was thrown at the runners at about the 2f pole in the Derby one year.


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    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Ile De Chypre, Royal Ascot 1988.

    Great stuff, that's looks like it, I'm not going nuts after all.


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    tryfix
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    The inventor of an ultra-sound gun used to stun a racehorse in an alleged plot to launder drug money through sure bets testified Thursday he was told it would make his fortune.
    ''I had someone tell me that if I had a device like this, I would not have to work again,'' auto dealer James Laming told a criminal court. ''This was someone fairly high up in the racing world, and the gambling game.''
    Laming, 49, would not name the man, who he said had no direct involvement with the weapon.
    He was giving evidence 16 months after the thoroughbred Ile de Chypre veered suddenly across the track while leading an important English race, apparently stunned by an ultrasonic-sound gun disguised as a pair of binoculars.
    The sound emitted from the grandstand, inaudible to humans, stunned the horse and caused it to toss veteran jockey Greville Starkey.


    http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1989/Inventer-of-Ultrasonic-Gun-Testifies-at-Race-Fraud-Trial/id-fc6a3fdee491536fa0d4e27286ab9640


    I remember it well, ile de Chypre was a fascinating horse all through his career including taking the Juddmonte International from his highly fancied stablemate Cacoethes.

    IIRC, there was a similar incident of veering across the track by another top horse where it turned out that he was a rig ( one testicle hadn't descended ) . Think it might have been Selkirk who became a one balled stallion of note.


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