Jun 6, 2019 • 23M

History’s Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick

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 In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.

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