Yellow Sam Betting Coup
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful sports betting scam, infamous within Irish and British thoroughbred horse racing. It happened at Bellewstown on 26 June 1975, and was orchestrated by Barney Curley, a Northern Irish professional gambler and entrepreneur. By taking advantage of an under-handicapped horse and the lack of easy communications between the Bellewstown racing course and off-course bookmakers, Curley made a profit of over IR Pds. 300,000 ( 1.7m adjusted for inflation) - one of the largest betting coups in Irish history. Yellow Sam…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful sports betting scam, infamous within Irish and British thoroughbred horse racing. It happened at Bellewstown on 26 June 1975, and was orchestrated by Barney Curley, a Northern Irish professional gambler and entrepreneur. By taking advantage of an under-handicapped horse and the lack of easy communications between the Bellewstown racing course and off-course bookmakers, Curley made a profit of over IR Pds. 300,000 ( 1.7m adjusted for inflation) - one of the largest betting coups in Irish history. Yellow Sam was a "slow but steady" horse bought by Curley and was given his name from his father's nickname at the races. Curley instructed the horse's trainer, Liam Brennan, to train Yellow Sam specifically for the somewhat obscure annual National Hunt race at Bellewstown, featuring mostly amateur jockeys. To ensure that the horse would run at least once with a much lighter handicap than would normally be the case, Curley first ran the horse in a series of races on other tracks in unfavourable conditions.