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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1958.

Fixing a Race: How it's done...

by Rae Johnstone

The China Mail Presents Serial Version Of The Most Sought After Racing Story Of Recent Times

come out of THE CHINA MAIL has secured the hottest book to racing the Rae Johnstone Story, in which this top Classics jockey career millions have tolls for the first time the real facts behind a followed. He is honest-brutally honest—about the big temptations John- which come the way of the jockey....and which he fell to.

stone is now describing his beginnings as a young jockey on the fringe of fame in Australia:-

SMALL country meetings in Australia still represent the most important local attraction, Though naturally they do not attract the best horses or jockeys. I had been getting along very nicely lately at the principal meetings such as Randwick, which, under the Australian Jockey Club, had by then become one of the world's great racing centres.

the Flying But my personal financial front-runner in situation

Handleap. One who could be re- lied upon to go from the start. healthy.

This was the one for me,

I WAS

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far

from

"big" enough, I I told my pal to Ko to the thought, to be beyond the bookmaker whose account look- jurisdiction of the stewards ed like proving such a source of at a smallish meeting. l'embarrassment when it come up

got some punting money.

So when a friend suggested we charter a three-seater and head north the three hundred- odd flying miles to Armidale, worth-east of the Liverpool Plains, and exploit my talents at a two-day meet, I was "on."

THE TRUTH

The first day's racing left the pair of us with a credit de Aciency with a certain book- maker which, positively, could not be met.

Something Just had to be done un the following afternoon. Something and somebody,

Well, I said I would tell the truth. And this is it. There had been a race on this first day, a Wodnesday, in which the result had read: Saliden (carrying 7st. Olb.), 1; Eatons Pride (73), 2; Our Rep (0.9), 3.

settling at the end of the for meeting and tell him that he could go down the book" with Our Rep. He could fill a volume with bets on mine.

I would not win.

decided

cipal races, and caught up

lile on reading.

Three months before the ex- was piry of my sentence

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• JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Partner Wants Chance To Err

BY OSWALD JACOBY

But the horse We should win has only a quarter of a mile to travel when he be gins to die in his tracks out to the wide, And the rest of us realise that the only way we can avoid taking an active partOUTH'S one spado overcall

dismount in the content is to

was a calculated risk. fic and start a card game. This be-

knew that if everyone passed he ing on impracticable solution would quite likely be missing a there is only one thing to do game, but he was sure that sad about it, 1 figure, and that is to fate would not overtake him. get on with it. So I slip past when West and North passed he ny money well inside the last commenced to worry a little but furlong and then get caught in East had the stut to reopen, the last stride myself. The re-East did not cult-Benzol (Ust. 31b.) Bret; Our dynamite to ds left,

know about the Rep (9.0) second; Sallden (0.9) third."

South's two spade bid was a continuation of his possum But there was an investiga-tociles and the subsequent bid- tion. And the stewards reached ding including West'a double of the proper conclusion. I had the five spade bid was quite been solely responsible for or ganising the whole disorganised affair.

Up to that race Our Rep's form figures had read 1, 3, 1. We sat up most of the night, my friend and 1, going through the

I was out once again,. .an "paper" of every Thursday run- ner. Our Rep who to meet Sail- my neck for two years. den on a stone better terms the next day and I was to ride him. He would surely have a big fol- lowing.

I had already been convicted for "stopping" horse that all not stop and it had been widely, and incorrectly, sumed that there had been other in- stances. I would show them that I could stop one all right.

The race was the Flying Handicap, run over six furlongs and from this you will uppre- clate that the meeting was not of the highest calibre the firet prize was £20; second £5,

sus-

This Iniest well-earned pension meant that I was not

permitted to enter a racecourse, or worse still from my point of vlew, work in stables.

1 resolved to keep as fit

normal,

Weat opened the four of clubs and all South had to do to make his contract was to draw trumps

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THE RAE JOHNSTONE STORY will be published All past Tunaing indicated

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West sugresled that even if he had opened a heart East might not have been brilliant enough to lead back his singleton dia-

mood and the band was Just fated to make.

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give me the chance. Then if X go wrong the fault will bo mine."

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"Don't worry! Your mother probably is eating pandy and sodas and running to shows like, mad-she's so- glad to get you out of her hair?”.

You, South, bold:

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What do you do?

Azokata. You have made your Islam try and partner has refused

to accept.

TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand. - Your. partner bida' one spade 'in' te- sponse to your doubls of one' club. “What do you do now?.........

Answer dei Monday,

regular": flow of winnern - I was *|| Envariably punting in the - wrong direction. Twice, in fact, during the schoon, I got up in the last stride or so to beat my own money by the KULITOSFCSÍ margin"

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From later period in Johnstone says he tells a story that pinpoints this.]

This is how It started. There was a fair sort of handicap mare named Republique, a three-year- old, in Swann's yard. The only snug about her-sho wasn't too dependable.

CERTAINTY

We worked her one morning with a two-year-old in the yard belonging to American film executive "Laudie" Lawrence, This two-year-old named Lo- granted a remission, so to speak, gend of France did not just go in that I was permitted to ride with her. He slammed her effort- work again, and the ban on allessly. No trouble at all. The way tending meetings was lifted. By he did it made it obvious that the beginning of 1930 1

the mare had done. nothing. back as a jockey,

She was like that.

Was

¡Johnstone rode la India, When he moved on to England In 1937, he had £10,000 in the bank. Most of this vanished in betting lowes. Then he was re. fused a permit to ride in Bar

land.

"Officialy no reasons are fur. nished when a request for licence is turned down. Indirect Inquiries I mado elicited the пера that it was simply a cas of no further loences being

ibia Lasued st

time. But it to secmed

ma slightly more the Johnstone probable that

shori * crime

Ittle lying

Australian

going to take a

down. I'll say it was.”

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On, then to Paris, where quickly got a retainer as Jockey

to the Wertheimer brothers. Ha stiff gambled:-

"It may seem strange, but it is true, that despite

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fairly

Swann.

Baron Nexon who managed M. Wertheimer's horses watched the work with Albert It was agreed that the gallop must have been hopelessly false. Agreed also that to accept that performance, and back the two- year-old first time out, would be absurd. He must have a run in public, which he did on October 14, 1937.

The race was Afth on the card at Longchamp and I had no

ride in either of the first four. The boy jockey

There was a' certainty in tho

first named Khorassan-bred in Australia....

by Baron Maurice de Roths

child. It was a three-year-old "seller."

I walked by my bookmaker,

a 1920 picture

from Johnstone's

(strictly illegal operators in own album'

France), Indicated I

wanted

the equivalent of £50 on, and In fact bo might not even look walked on up to the jocks stand, up as the punter indicated the Nothing was ever written down. hurse and the sum

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Anyway the Rothschild pair Anished one two. So I played it up on one of Willle Head's In fourth on the emri (how I came to miss betting on the third, Just can't remember) and saw it dead-beat at 12-1.

The next Legend of France's heat, And 1 had made & good few Inquiries in the weighing-room as well as some preliminary study.

"Tho lo on Foxglove plus An extra £50," I muttered before going to the realo,

GOOD BREAK

There were 13 runners in this opo-milo Prix d'Automne. Foxglove had ruri a nice TRCO fourth, with three provious winners behind him. ui Lo Tremblay, just under threo works before. Now, at Longchamp, he looked as though the race had brought him on, I noted with satisfaction that he got good break, took in behind a couple, and raced nicely in his notion to the turn.

and

There Semblat pulled him out, consled to the front, went for the line. There only one possible danger, bar a fall, and that was-me.

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I shook my whip at Legend of France, He put his head down und ran on like a good one, straight as a gun-barrel, gotting up to win a length. His price Nor, 1 may tell you,

The animal trotled up at 2-4 53-11 and, as intended, I played it up was this an isolated instance of on the next, a "lay down" at Johnstone robbing Johnstone,

a loy down's price, when the* two Rothschild runners in the four horse Prix Joivense were coupled at 6-1 on.

The books could not lose fortune with their odds govern-

ed by the machine returris, since the second favourite was just under 1-2 and the outsider 17-2.

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