I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services.
You've done a great deal in a small time span. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived.
Barney Curley: The Man Who Beat the Bookies airs on BBC One NI on Tuesday at 10.35pm.Time, Dr. The documentary also hears from veteran bookmakers and famous jockeys to give the most in-depth account of a day every punter since has envied and admired. He added: “Yellow Sam never won a race after.” “There were no celebrations, I’m not a great man to celebrate,” he said. One hour before the off the name of the horse and the race was revealed to Curley’s men who then swiftly started placing bets of no more than £5 at a time in every bookies they knew.Īt the same time his friend made a fake call to a dying aunt in hospital from the sole telephone at the racecourse and the bookies there were oblivious that Yellow Sam was attracting big money.Īs a result it started at 20/1 and won by two-and-a-half lengths with Michael Furlong on board.Ĭurley watched the race hiding in gorse bush in the middle of the course because if nobody saw him they would think he didn’t fancy his own horse. “I’m not really a nervous creature, if it’s going to happen it’s going to happen, I gave it my best shot and that’s it,” said Curley. 
If Yellow Sam didn’t win, Curley was finished, and so on Wednesday, June 25, 1975, everything was on the line in the 3 o’clock at Bellewstown. If he could block the line then bookmakers at the course, who set the price for off track shops as well, would have no way of knowing the horse was being well backed at betting shops around Ireland.Ĭurley managed to pull together £15,000, a massive sum given the prime minister at the time, Harold Wilson, was paid £20,000 a year. Bellewstown racecourse where Barney pulled off the Yellow Sam win
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