RACECOURSE FRAUS
" RIGGING " THE BETTING MARKET.
JOCKEY GETS THREE YEARS,
Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 28. After a hearing lasting 11 days (constituting a record criminal trial) at the Old Bailey, Peter Christian Barrie, an amateur jockey, aged 60, was sentenced to three years penal servitude in connection with two cases of conspiracy to defraud, .i . fr v< f, ot 'hers, by ' ringing in" and ngsing the betting market. The chief interest was in the substitution of a three-year-old horse for another in a two-year-old race. On this race Barrie and others won several thousand pounds. The other defendants were sentenced to terms of nine to 18 months Miepohce state that Barrie is a native of Edinburgh, and went with his parents to Australia, where he joined the Expeditionary Force, and was discharged in England in 1916.—A, and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18054, 30 September 1920, Page 5
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