What is the man who cheated a lot with Ikasama who changed the appearance of the racehorse and made it run as a 'replacement ball for slow horses'?
History's Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick
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Born in Scotland in 1888 as the son of a butcher, Barry traveled to Australia as an adult and joined the 6th Light Cavalry Regiment of the Australian Imperial Army in September 1914. The enlistment documents at that time stated that Barry was working as an animal dentist and that he was taking care of horses in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fleet. After that, Barry was sent to Galipoli in May 1915, but he spent a lot of time on a hospital ship due to infectious diseases and diarrhea, and eventually spent his time as a driver at the Ministry of the Army in London.
Barry got married in 1918, built a house in London, and bought a horse at the same time, although he was arrested by stealing his wallet in 1917, before the end of World War I. It is believed that Barry may have begun to dye the horse racing squid in order to maintain this life.
From 1919 to 1920, Barry and his companions used 'replacement balls' to troll the English horse racing world. The technique used by Barry is as follows.
・ 1: Prepare a 'fast racehorse' and a 'slow racehorse' and enter the race under the name of the slow racehorse.
・ 2: On the day of the race, run a 'fast racehorse that looks like a slow racehorse'. Gangsters who are friends of Ikasama bet a lot of money on 'unpopular slow racehorses'.
・ 3: If you can trick the groom, the people involved in the race track, and all the spectators watching the race, there is a high probability that the fast racehorse will win, the gangs will get a lot of money, and Barry will share. get. Others assume that the racehorse that won the race 'has the best run ever for a slow racehorse.'
Barry used a very simple technique, but the question was whether he could change the appearance of the horse and trick a lot of people. However, Barry had a peculiar talent in 'changing the appearance of the horse', and was able to freely change the appearance of the horse by using tools such as
Later, Barry told a Daily News reporter that he started by shampooing his horse, putting a protective tape on his eyes, and bleaching his hair. This bleaching work is very important, and if the degree is wrong, the skin will be damaged and the horse's legs will be slowed down, or the subsequent dyeing work with henna will not work. After bleaching, I used henna to dye the coat color of the racehorse I wanted to imitate, and then rebleached the corresponding areas if there were white spots. At this time, Barry said that he used a bandage like masking tape to reproduce a pattern that looked exactly like a racehorse that he wanted to imitate, and he sometimes struck his nose with silver nitrate to color it.
When it was necessary to resemble the non-coat color, Barry cut the tendons of the ears, plucked the tail, and cut the mane to bring it closer to the model horse. Also, when he wanted to make an uncastrated horse look like a castrated horse, he sometimes hit the testicles with a block of ice to shrink it and make it look like it was castrated. Sometimes he used his experience working as an animal dentist to sharpen his teeth with a knife or drill.
Barry also injected heroin and cocaine into horses to increase the chances of winning the race. However, not only in Barry, but in the horse racing world at the beginning of the 20th century, the fraudulent injection of heroin and cocaine into racehorses was rampant.
Barry has been ruining the horse racing world in England for a while, but a case in which
In 1931, Barry replaced the horses 'Aknaton ' and ' Shem ' by teaming up with gangsters to run replacement balls in various races. Although both of them had a similar appearance to their great-grandfather, 'Command ', which became the leading American sire in 1907, there was a big difference in their racing ability. Acnaton, who entered the race in Havre de Grace, Maryland as Shem, won by flipping the odds of 52: 1 (53 times), but the gambler who joined hands in this case is information on Barry. Because I leaked it, I was chased by Pinkerton Detective Agency hired by a racetrack official.
Barry, along with Aknaton and Shem, traveled through various hideouts, sometimes pretending to be another horse, and raced, but in 1932 a detective found him. In response to this, the police also tried to secure Barry's identity, but Barry was not guilty of being prosecuted by the police in connection with the horse racing Ikasama. At the time, most states didn't have a law prohibiting 'disguising one horse as another and running in a race under a pseudonym,' so what Barry did was crazy, but it wasn't illegal. It seems that there was no such thing.
As a result, Barry was deported for illegally entering the United States, but after that he went back and forth between the United States and the United Kingdom several times to make a fool of himself. Pinkerton Detective Agency has located Barry's whereabouts and deported him each time. Below is a picture of Barry taken by Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Although Barry played an important role in Ikasama, most of the profits from Ikasama were obtained mainly by the gangsters who joined hands, and Barry who was hired to the last got so much money. It seems that it was not. Since 1946, Barry has been unable to carry out replacement balls since the introduction of the squid measure of 'putting a tattoo on the lips of a racehorse to identify it' in North America, and when he died in 1973 at the age of 85, it was owned by the British government. He lived in a single-person residence.
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