Fixed: Cheating, doping, rape and murder...the Inside Track on Australia's Racing Industry

Ebury Press, Sydney, 2013. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 12mo Small. 311 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Dapper horse trainer Les Samba was in Melbourne for the annual yearling sales when he turned down an Italian meal with racing contacts saying: "I have got to meet a bloke." Just hours later he was laying dead, in the middle of the road with blood pouring from five bullet wounds to his head and body. Racing in Australia has a dark and dangerous underbelly. Powerful people play for high stakes in an industry worth $14 billion a year. And they don't play nicely. Yearling sales are rigged, horses doped, races fixed and taxes dodged by high rolling punters. Every day huge sums of money are made by bookies who don't want to put any of it back into the industry. Meanwhile jockeys starve and sweat themselves to the point of delirium - many dying or suffering permanent injury while racing for as little as $130 a race. Young female jockeys are raped, often by the trainers they work for. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Equestrian & Racing; Australia; Modern; True Crime. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780857983268. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7349. . 9780857983268