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Originally Posted by Duvalier
"Midnight Riders" I've never heard of that...that's some interesting stuff. Were there any other not so well known fixes back in those days?
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Fixes weren't infrequent, relatively speaking. Pittsburgh Phil is credited in a Beyer book for bribing a jockey to be honest and paying him for wins. However, that was actually a method first used by Plunger Walton decades before him. In fact, The Albany Law site has a few pages on Plunger Walton doing exactly that. Pittsburgh Phil merely used the same method at a smaller track known for larceny.
I don't believe fixed races ever really happen anymore. Certainly not at the big tracks, or even the mid level tracks. If they happen, it's at a lesser track.
If you know how to play the offshore game, you can get good action offshore on some pretty cheap tracks.
Here's the famous bookmaker, horse bettor, and horse owner (he owned Roseben) Davy Johnson making a joke about one of the Night Riding incidents in New York that got a conviction...
