The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History
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The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History
<b>The bookies always win. </b><br /><b></b><br /><b>But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. </b><br /><br />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. <br /><br /><b>They said that it could never happen again. </b><br /><br /><b>But in May 2010, thirty-five years after his first coup, Curley staged the ultimate multimillion pound-winning sequel.</b><br /><br /><b><i>The Sure Thing</i> tells the complete story of how he managed to organise the biggest gamble in racing history – and how he then followed up with yet another audacious scheme in January 2014.</b>