Shashi Rami narrates the extraordinary story of Barney Curley

On 26 June 1975, an obscure racecourse in Ireland became the setting for an astonishing gambling coup that would go down in history and establish its orchestrator as one of the sport’s most feared and enigmatic characters. An unfancied horse called Yellow Sam romped home at 20-1 but, at the track that day, few even knew what had really happened, nor was anyone aware of the origins of the drama or its true motives, buried as they were in decades of Northern Irish history.

Shashi Rami narrates this RTÉ documentary about the fascinating Fermanagh man Barney Curley — who would go down in history as one of the sport’s most feared and enigmatic characters.