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In this chapter we focus on the ‘modern’ international development of horse racing. Rather than dwell on the historical change (see Reith, 2002; Miers, 2004; Cassidy, 2010) in horse racing from an aristocratic ‘pastime’ to a commercial sport, our focus is on the more modern, contemporary era and the codification of the sport. Intermittingly associated with fraud and corruption in it earliest form (Vamplew, 1976; Chinn, 1991; Dixon, 1991), and in particular gambling, horse racing was, and still is, vulnerable to different types of fraud and corruption. The most obvious is fixing a horse race; however, while we touch on this type of fraud and corruption, we also highlight under-researched types of corruption, in particular auction fraud, doping horses and running a horse when injured.
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© 2013 Graham Brooks, Azeem Aleem and Mark Button
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Brooks, G., Aleem, A., Button, M. (2013). Fraud and Corruption in Horse Racing. In: Fraud, Corruption and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290717_8
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