The Resource The Fine Cotton fiasco, Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil
The Fine Cotton fiasco, Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil
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The item The Fine Cotton fiasco, Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library.
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- Summary
- Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong? In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how -- through a combination of horrendous mismanagement, terrible judgement and comically bad luck -- the scheme gradually unravelled. How did a horse with white painted socks dripping onto the turf come to hold the hopes of punters across Australia and beyond? How was a supposedly secret plan so widely advertised that even the Queensland Commissioner of Police placed a bet? And how much of a cover-up ensued in the aftermath of this absolute debacle? The story of Fine Cotton is the stuff of Australian legend. It features hardcore crims, likeable rogues and a supporting cast that ranged from the hapless to the hopeless -- with some entirely innocent bystanders thrown in for good measure. Not every crazy scheme cooked up by a couple of inmates in Boggo Road Gaol would culminate in a story that will be told across the nation for the next hundred years. But this one did
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "The behind-the-scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race, the drunken buffoons who organised it and how they set themselves on a collision course with Sydney gangsters and Queensland's corrupt cops"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780143793700
- Label
- The Fine Cotton fiasco
- Title
- The Fine Cotton fiasco
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong? In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how -- through a combination of horrendous mismanagement, terrible judgement and comically bad luck -- the scheme gradually unravelled. How did a horse with white painted socks dripping onto the turf come to hold the hopes of punters across Australia and beyond? How was a supposedly secret plan so widely advertised that even the Queensland Commissioner of Police placed a bet? And how much of a cover-up ensued in the aftermath of this absolute debacle? The story of Fine Cotton is the stuff of Australian legend. It features hardcore crims, likeable rogues and a supporting cast that ranged from the hapless to the hopeless -- with some entirely innocent bystanders thrown in for good measure. Not every crazy scheme cooked up by a couple of inmates in Boggo Road Gaol would culminate in a story that will be told across the nation for the next hundred years. But this one did
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hoysted, Peter
- Dewey number
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- 364.16309943
- 798.401
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Sheil, Pat
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Horse racing
- Horse racing
- Swindlers and swindling
- Book-making (Betting)
- Fine Cotton (Race horse)
- Bold Personality (Race horse)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Fine Cotton fiasco, Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil
- Note
- "The behind-the-scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race, the drunken buffoons who organised it and how they set themselves on a collision course with Sydney gangsters and Queensland's corrupt cops"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 23367029
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780143793700
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2019030275
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
- Label
- The Fine Cotton fiasco, Peter Hoysted & Pat Sheil
- Note
- "The behind-the-scenes account of Australia's dodgiest horse race, the drunken buffoons who organised it and how they set themselves on a collision course with Sydney gangsters and Queensland's corrupt cops"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 23367029
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780143793700
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2019030275
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
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