I know Painted is a breed of horse but I can’t help but think of the time that a guy would literally paint and dye horses to create convincing sub ins, then sometimes shoot them full of heroin to make them faster or slower, depending on the dose.
Oh. Oh boy. Are you in for an interesting bit of horse history.
I first heard about this in episode 469 of The Dollop about Peter Christian Barrie. But if an hour and a half of two jackasses giggling their way through it isn’t quite how you’d like to have this delivered to you, this is a write up about the event:
I know Painted is a breed of horse but I can’t help but think of the time that a guy would literally paint and dye horses to create convincing sub ins, then sometimes shoot them full of heroin to make them faster or slower, depending on the dose.
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Oh. Oh boy. Are you in for an interesting bit of horse history.
I first heard about this in episode 469 of The Dollop about Peter Christian Barrie. But if an hour and a half of two jackasses giggling their way through it isn’t quite how you’d like to have this delivered to you, this is a write up about the event:
https://www.narratively.com/p/historys-greatest-horse-racing-cheat-and-his-incredible-painting-trick
Damn good story, great read!