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Odds and sods Horse racing has always been a bit dodgy, a bit of a gamble. But then big-time crooks moved in with their dope and dirty money. And now the sport of kings faces its biggest hurdle: how to clean up its act
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For those who framed their perceptions about horse-racing from the
razor-gang fights in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock or, more recently,
from the thrillers written by such ex-jockeys as Dick Francis, John
Francome or Richard Pitman, the twists and turns of the current,
prolonged, real- life probe into race-fixing has probably offered few
surprises. "Ah ha," these people will be thinking. "Knew it all
along. Always been dodgy, horse-racing, hasn't it?"
To an extent these doubters are bo...
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