Brothers Are Charged in Race Scam
Two brothers entered a thoroughbred that had won previously in a maiden race by giving the horse an alias, a scam that got them a $300,000 payout when it won, federal prosecutors charged Friday.
Emmett Winter of Williston, Fla., and his brother Kelly Winter of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a gelding named Forty Two, which had won previously, under the name Almost Impossible in a July 17, 1998, race at Calder Race Course for horses that had yet to win, prosecutors said.
Their horse beat nine others at odds of 12-1.
The brothers fooled Calder officials by submitting a counterfeit foal certificate for the ringer horse, with its name and identification number altered, said Guy Lewis, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
They were charged with conspiring to fix races in Miami and in Pennsylvania. They face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
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