NeatBarney Curley's 1975 betting coup at Bellewstown
from the they-went-thataway dept.
A sleepy amateur race in County Meath, a single phone line, and one man who had thought very carefully about both. Damn Interesting tells it at length and with obvious relish; it's one of those Irish stories that gets better every time it's told in a pub, and this is the long version.
Damn Interesting recounts how gambler Barney Curley pulled off a famous betting coup at a small race meeting in Bellewstown, north of Dublin, in 1975. The plan exploited the village's isolation, and locals still talk about it.
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