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Barney Curley strikes again?

Notorious Irish bettor, trainer and shady guy had four horses formerly associated with him all win today at various tracks in England.
Two at Kempton
One at Lingfield
One at Catterick

All were bet down well below their morning line odds, with the last horse in the sequence coming off a 700+ day layoff. I think they all went off as favorites...their overnight odds were:
7-1
20-1
6-1
10-1

If they bet with bookmakers they got their odds locked in...score !

"One of the blackest days in the history of bookmaking."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...3#.UuCTQmdOmM9

Don't know if this headline is sensational or not...but according to the Daily Mirror, Bookmakers took a 15 million Pounds battering thanks to an extremely successful betting coup.

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Eye of the Tiger struck first blood for punters at *Lingfield. It was priced at 10-1 having not run for 481 days but was backed in to even money favourite before the race.

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Next was Seven Summits, which claimed its first win over hurdles at Catterick.

It was backed from 7-1 to 9-4 favourite. Later at Kempton, Indus Valley was running for the first time in 700 days, but still won at 4-6 after being priced as high as 20-1 on Tuesday night.

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And the quadruple was completed by Low Key, which returned from a 350-day lay-off to win at 4-7 having been backed in from 7-1 earlier in the day.

Each of the final two horses to complete the coup, Indus Valley and Low Key, were trending on Twitter for a while after they came through.

Obviously, when you bet a horse at 10/1 with bookmakers, you're locked in at that price.

Nice read, thanks for posting, seems like a movie waiting to be made about Barney Curley

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Originally Posted by Mike A (Post 962036)

Nice read, thanks for posting, seems like a movie waiting to be made about Barney Curley

He's a great interview as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPpBpDaSXE

This is a great quote from the Paddy Power spokesman today at the bottom of this article in the Telegraph:

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"We had some interesting new accounts opened from deepest, darkest Ireland in the build up to this but you’ve got to take your hat off to them.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/hor...ting-coup.html