CAMOUFLAGED RACEHORSE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 4, 30 September 1920, Page 5

CAMOUFLAGED RACEHORSE

REMARKABLE CASE OF "RINGING IN." 1 4 . London, Septomber 28. After a .hearing lasting eleven days, constituting a record criminal trial at the Old Bailey Peter Christian Barrio, an amateur jockoy,' aged thirty, has been sentenced •to three years' penal servitude in connection with two cases of conspiracy to defraud, along with five others, by ringing in and rigging the betting market. The chief interest was in the substitution of a three-year-old. horse in a two-year-old race. Barrio and others won several thousand pounds. Tho other defendants wero sentenced to nine and eighteen months' imprisonment. Tho police stated that Barrite) a native of Edinburgh, went with his parents to Australia, whero he joined tho Expeditionary Forces as a trooper in 1915, and was discharged in 1916 as medically unlit, Since then lie has worked in England.— Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn, ("According to a Router message'published in tlio Sydney "Sun," counsel for the Crown, in outlining tho case, explained that a "horso' named Silver Badge was ontered for the race, but it was purely an imaginary horse, and tho rnco was really won by another horse, called Shining More, which was a certainty for tlio race, because it had won ovor the snma courso_ in November. In order to make Shining Moro appear like the supposed Silver Badge, which had been entered as a brown mare, Shining More, which was a bay mare, was turned into a dark brown by being covered with dope, and a blaze on her forehead and a white hind fetlock w-ero similarly obliterated. Shining More won tho race casilv under tho name of Silver Badge, against whom long.odds wero offered by | the bookmakers, as it was an unknown horse. The result was that tlioso concerned in tho fraud netted a handsome sum. As it was necessary to "buy in" tho lionso to prevent the fraud being discovered. one of tho accused "bought in" jthe alleged Silver Badge for 510gns"|,