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I know Painted is a breed of horse but I can't help but think of the time that a guy would literally paint and dye horses to create convincing sub ins, then sometimes shoot them full of heroin to make them faster or slower, depending on the dose.
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Oh. Oh boy. Are you in for an interesting bit of horse history.
I first heard about this in episode 469 of The Dollop about Peter Christian Barrie. But if an hour and a half of two jackasses giggling their way through it isn't quite how you'd like to have this delivered to you, this is a write up about the event:
https://www.narratively.com/p/historys-greatest-horse-racing-cheat-and-his-incredible-painting-trick
Damn good story, great read!