The gambler and the bug boy : 1939 Los Angeles and the untold story of a horse racing fix /

Bernard "Big" Mooney, LA bookmaker threatens jockeys with death if they didn't "pull" their horses. His unwilling partner is Albert Siler, a callow, eighteen-year-old apprentice rider from eastern Oregon. This book tells how Big Mooney manipulated this rider and how Siler tr...

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Main Author: Christgau, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007
Lincoln : c2007
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