The Sure Thing Av Nick Townsend

<p><b>__________________</b><br><b>The bookies always win. <br><br>But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. </b><br><br>In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called Yellow Sam. With a meticulous, entirely legal plan involving dozens of people, perfectly timed phone calls, sealed orders and months of preparation, Curley and Yellow Sam beat the bookmakers and cost them millions. <br><br><b>They said that it could never happen again. </b><br><br>But in May 2010, thirty-five years after his first coup, Curley staged the ultimate multi-million-pound-winning sequel.<br><br><i>The Sure Thing</i> tells the complete story of how he managed to organise the biggest gamble in racing history - and how he then followed up with yet another audacious scheme in January 2014.</p>