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The Fine Cotton Affair - Part 1 – Sports Bizarre

We are back, and with the most requested topic we've ever had.

In Australia, the two most famous racehorses are Fine Cotton and Phar Lap but for opposite reasons.

When a handful of colourful racing types attempted to swap the poor horse Fine Cotton, for the much faster Dashing Solitaire, it all seemed so easy.

What followed was an inept, sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious slow-moving disaster, with a mystery still at the heart of it.

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There is a heap of newspaper reports from the time, and ever since then there’s been interviews galore with many of the main players. That said, there are still a few who have remained very quiet on this topic.

The most recent book and the one worth grabbing if you want to dive deeper is The Fine Cotton Fiasco by Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil.

Chance by Andrew Rule also has a chapter on it which is great as all his work is.

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