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Doped - The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang (Hardcover)
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Doped - The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang (Hardcover)
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Doped is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in
the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing,
drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the monarchy, it tells the
true story of one of the biggest doping scandals in British racing
history. In March 1962 an audacious attempt to nobble one of the
royal horses alerted police to a well organised band of racecourse
criminals, backed by murderous London gangsters. The subsequent
Flying Squad pursuit of the gang brought the quaintly deferential
world of racing into sharp conflict with the harsher realities of
the 'You've Never Had It So Good' era. This also coincided with the
birth of the annual Dick Francis novel. The cast of characters is
headed by William Roper, a debonair ex RAF Sergeant turned
oddsmaker. His team included an ex jockey, numerous underpaid
stable lads, an upper class gambling addict and a violent
professional gangster who went on to face charges with the Kray
twins in 1969. But the most fascinating member of Roper's firm was
a beautiful and selfpossessed young Swiss woman called Micheline
Lugeon who became the bookmaker's lover.
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