Scandals in Horse Racing
- Horse murders -- From 1975 - 1995 wealthy owners and trainers of show jumping horses conspire to electrocute and otherwise kill over-valued as well as under-performing animals in a 20-year-long scheme to defraud insurance companies; crimes also committed during this equestrian sports scandal include extortion, mail fraud, animal cruelty, and the murder of at least one human being.
- Fine Cotton/Bold Personality (1984) – A "ring-in" (substitution scam) in Australia involving several elite figures in the sport, in which the schemers attempted to pass off Bold Personality as the much less talented Fine Cotton in a low-level race.
- Shanghai Syndicate case (1986)
- Death of Alydar (1990) – The death of the star stallion was initially reported as an accident, but was later speculated to have been a murder motivated by an attempt of his financially troubled owner, Calumet Farm, to collect on a large insurance policy.
- 1993 Grand National fiasco
- Stanley Chin race fixing scandal (1996)
- Operation Green Grass (2002)
- Kieren Fallon race fixing scandal
- Operation Twin Towns (2006)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sporting Scandals
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