Fine Cotton was a brown Australian Thoroughbred gelding which was at the centre of a substitution scam (also known as a ring-in) which occurred on 18 August 1984, in the Commerce Novice (2nd division) Handicap over 1,500 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Queensland. Although there have been many ring-ins and other illegal scams in Australian racing, the Fine Cotton scandal is infamous in Australia due to the involvement of some of racing's elite.
Fine Cotton was foaled on 29 November 1976, by Aureo from Cottonpicker by Delta. He was bred by the Estate of the Late GA Darke and Mr W D Hayne, New South Wales.
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