WEBVTT - The fat envelope: Part 1 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:06.560 These pictures, they're all black horses winning races. And Rerenzalez says, 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.120 have a closer look, says, listening here a little prick, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.840 you just jump to the front and it'll win easy. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.640 He's two envelopes and there's a thin one and there's. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:19.520 A fat one. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.400 If you choose the thin one, that's great. You put 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.119 it in your pocket and after today we don't worry 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.200 about it. If you take the fat one, you're one 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.639 of the team. I'm Andrew Rule. This is life and crimes. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.120 Sometimes crime entwines itself with sport or racing or rock 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.080 and roll. And today we're going to have a closer 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:48.200 look at the history of a criminal called Rick Renzela, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.720 who got mixed up in the racing game many years ago. Now, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.040 Rick Rerenzela, he's no longer with us. Some long term 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.440 listeners will have heard about him in the past because 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.720 after he died, we went to town on talking about him. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.920 In fact, I think we suggested that at his funeral 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.800 that someone checked the coffin to make sure that he 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.199 was in it. That was an exaggeration, but it gives 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.280 you an insight into the sort of person Rick Rensela 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.120 was and He was described by a colleague of mine 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.600 once in print as a man of many parts, most 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.800 of them stolen, which was another great description. Rick Renzella's 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.520 real name was a Vittoria Rensela, and he would have 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.480 grown up as a little boy in Melbourne, speaking Italian 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.760 at home and English at school, and he would have 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.040 been one of that generation of migrant kids who had 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.360 to do the best he could in all ways. And 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.880 instead of working hard and becoming an honest person in 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.720 business or in professions or trades, he went the other way. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.840 And as a young man he saw the inside of 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.360 boys homes and jails, and he did a bit of 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:07.600 time for crimes of dishonesty before he turned his mind 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.079 to the sort of legitimate business of second hand car 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.560 dealing and punting. Now these days, secondhand car. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.440 Dealers are pretty respectable people, because cars these days are 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.040 by and large not as expensive as they once were, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.240 and they're far more reliable than they once were, and 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.040 by and large they are not sold second, third and 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.519 fourth hand on used car lots the way they used 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.680 to be, and so there. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.160 Are far fewer dodgy car dealers these days than they 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.720 were back when Rick Loronzela got into the business, and 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.960 he was a very dodgy car dealer, but his real love, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:48.480 his real interest, was to beat the system, particularly with 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:53.800 punting punting on horses, and he made enough money selling 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:59.360 cars from his car yard down the Nepean Highway to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.760 be able to invest some of it in racehorses. Now 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.160 I use the word invest lightly. It's not really an investment, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.639 except Rick thought it was. He thought he could beat 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.360 the system, and indeed, for a while he did. And 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.840 the story goes that one day he was out looking 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.639 at his racehorses at his relatively small time trainers yard. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.720 His trainer was a guy called McNamara, Alan McNamara, and 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.959 he trained a bit further down the Pen Highway, I 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.720 think originally at mentone or that area, and had stables 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.520 in his backyard. And one day, the story goes, Rick 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.080 Renzella went outside and he patted a black horse, believing 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.880 it to be his black horse code of Penn. It 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.080 actually wasn't. It was another black horse entirely. And I 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:57.760 suspect that that day Rick Renzella got the idea that 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:02.119 if the owner of a black horse couldn't easily distinguish 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.640 between it and another one, that looked a bit similar, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.520 then perhaps it would be a good way to pull 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.520 a ring in to use black horses. And starting from 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.480 that premise, mind you, Rick was pretty dishonest and pretty 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.640 cagy and pretty cunning, so he wouldn't need much encouragement 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.880 to get involved in such a thing. He started to 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.200 buy more black horses, and he had this good horse 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.400 code of Penn, who was good enough to win races 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.720 in town and to run placings in town. He was 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:37.680 a pretty smart animal. And Rick bought more horses that 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.800 were related to that horse. They were sired by, that is, 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:46.600 fathered by a particular English stadion that was standing in Australia, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.680 a horse called I think King Tudor, and King Tudor 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.040 was known as a black horse. Often in racing they 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.600 call him dark browns, but most of us would call 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.560 him black. And he he wasn't a great stadient, He 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.600 wasn't a great sire of winners. But he did throw 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.520 a lot of horses that looked like himself. They were 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.600 black or dark brown, they didn't have any or much 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.560 white hair on them, and they tended to look a 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.000 bit like each other. So you know, if he had 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.240 a slightly Roman nose, so did many of his progeny. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.520 He was quite a dominant sire in that sense, and 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.440 so Rick bought quite a few progeny of that stadient, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.159 and he bought ones that did look like each other. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.719 And only one of them was the good horse code 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.279 of Pen. The others were relatively ordinary animals. One was 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.600 called Briander Hall, one was called Damien Park, who was 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.200 a full brother of code Pen. He was so keen 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.240 on them he actually bought both King Tudor and joy Gay, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:57.159 that being the sire and dam that his father and 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.760 mother of code Pen and Damien Park. And so he 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.800 really ended up with his whole family of horses. He 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.400 kept breeding and buying these black horses that looked like 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.560 each other, and he had a motive, and his motive 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.680 was to pull ringings, and that, of course, is the 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:18.479 substitute one horse for another. Now, the person that told 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.480 me the ins and outs of this story in detail 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.480 is a former jockey called Stephen Wood, and Stevie Wood 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.560 is an enormously well liked fella. He's now in his 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.800 early seventies. No one says a bad word about him, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.040 even the police who ended up prosecuting him and ultimately 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.359 sent him to jail for defrauding the public. They actually 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.640 liked him. He's an engaging fellow and for a guy 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.240 who did do some dishonest things, he's actually a very 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:56.000 honest sort of guy. And later on, interestingly, he did 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.800 very well in business outside racing. But as a youngster 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.839 he was a poor kid. His dad had been a 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.880 jumping jockey who broke his neck riding over jumps and 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.720 had become an alcoholic and then dried out. But Steve 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.000 was one of a big family of poor kids who 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.120 grew up around Caulfield, and he just did the best 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.640 he could. And when he was a very small boy, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.080 I think he was only thirteen, but they pretended he 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.200 was older. He was apprenticed to a small time trainer 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.880 who was quite a good trainer, quite a good man. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.920 But young Steve was small for his age, which is 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.800 why his parents thought he could be a jockey. And 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.600 he was so young at this point that he was 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.920 signed up as I suspect a fourteen year old or 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.560 a fifteen year old, but he was actually a year younger. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.080 And so when he rode in his first race, which 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.640 was in the city, would you believe he wrote in 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.880 his first race at Mooney Valley against legends of the 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.240 turf such as Roy Higgins and Harry White and all 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.120 these great riders. He was so young that he hadn't 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.720 even hit puberty. And he told me he was so 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.160 embarrassed in the jockey's room because he was a little, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.160 tiny kid who looked like a Grade six kid, and 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.640 he went and hit in the toilets to get changed. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.000 Before his first ride, he'd only had a couple of 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.480 jump outs. He'd ridden in a couple of trials down 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.520 at the Epsom Track, I think it was, and on 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.160 this occasion they just sent him out there to ride 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.800 in a race, and he was terrified, he said he 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.320 to this day cannot remember the first half of the 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:44.120 race how it went. Apparently his horse jumped out slowly 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.600 because he was hanging onto its mouth. He didn't really 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.360 know how to ride it well, and he nearly fell 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.680 off and followed the field and it didn't look great. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.880 But time past, Stevie Wood grew up a bit. He 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.200 started to win a few races and he would be 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.719 sent to the country tracks and he would win a 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.920 few races, and back in those days racing was not 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.480 as big a an industry as it is now. They 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.800 didn't race every day of the week the way they 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.920 do now. Back in those days, they would race a 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.720 few meetings in the country on weekends. Of course, they 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.040 would have a Saturday city meeting, and they'd have a 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.840 midweek meeting, and they'd be the odd midweek meeting in 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.360 the country. So most jockeys, the big good jockeys, would 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.880 ride midweek in Melbourne Saturday Melbourne, not go to the 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.960 bush much maybe where it be maybe Geelong, but not 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:42.640 too far. And the lesser lights, especially apprentices, would go 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.720 to those country meetings, So they'd ride midweek at Baneala 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.240 or Wangorada or Sale or Bensdale or wherever it might 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.800 be on Saturday meetings at those same sort of venues, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.480 and little Stevie would picked up his act and he 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.760 got to be a much better job. He tells me 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.320 that his friend and contemporary Paul Jarman, was a star jockey. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.760 He was a bit older and a bit better, and 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.960 he was a top writer who outrode his apprentice claim 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.600 while still an apprentice. He rode so many winners that 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.360 he could no longer claim the weight allowance that apprentices 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.640 get the other one at the time was his friend 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.720 Lye Hope, who was a very good young jockey. But 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.520 Steve Wood was probably running third or fourth behind those 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.040 good guys, and so he made a bit of a 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.400 name for himself. Stevie. You know, like all young jockeys, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.560 he grows up fast, he gets a bit heavier, and 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:46.080 he develops a few bad habits. His trainer that his boss, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.640 trainer was a guy who didn't drink or smoke and 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.080 didn't like his apprentices staying out late or staying out 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.000 running around with bad people and all the backslappers that 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.440 get involved in racing. And Stevie got involved with going 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.199 to parties and getting on the drink and chasing girls 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.840 and all that, and his boss said that's no good, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.000 that's no way to behave. I don't want you to 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.520 ride for me, and being a smart ass sixteen year 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.199 old little Stevie would decided that he would leave his 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:25.040 boss and go and ride freelance. Now that was not 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.679 a great decision. He should have pulled his horns in 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.240 and done the right thing, but he didn't. And what 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.800 happened was he went from being a pretty good city 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.400 based apprentice who used to get some rides in town 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.480 and win a few in town as well as on 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:44.600 the country circuit. He ended up taking a job from 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.840 a famous old Bendigo train called George Daniels. George Daniels 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.960 had been a lighthorseman in World War One and he 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.960 came back to Bendigo. I think he had part of 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.319 his foot shot off. He was probably a bit of 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:02.200 a war hero really, and he trained both gallopers and trotters. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.439 And I think if somebody bothers to look up the records, 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:10.040 I'll find that George Daniels one not only group races, 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.360 black type races with gallopers, notably the Great Sailor's Guide, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:21.040 a famous galloper back in the sixties, and he won 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.760 group races with harness horces trotting horses. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:24.640 So he was a. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.280 Great all round trainer and a very good man and 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.120 well thought of. He said to Stevie, you're not traveling 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.600 that well down in town now you've left your trainer. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.200 Are You're not getting many city rides. You've now just 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.760 got married because you had to, And this is true. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.760 Stevie was by this stage nineteen and married and had 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.080 a child on the way. He said, why don't you 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.120 come to Bendigo. I can't offer you a lot of 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.920 money as a retainer, but I'll give you enough to 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.640 pay your rent each week. It might have been twenty 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.839 bucks back then it was enough to rent a house. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.160 Will guarantee you plenty of rides and therefore plenty of 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.520 winners because you're a good country rider, and I'm happy 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.280 to put you on all my best chances. And so 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.720 when it gets to nineteen seventy one, Stevie Wood has 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:17.800 been riding for maybe three or four years. He's at Bendigo. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.280 He's doing the best he can. He's riding a few 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.160 country winners. He's not as enthusiastic as he used to 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.240 be because he knows he's sort of closed the door 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.880 on being a successful city rider. And he gets a 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.320 call this day from this trainer McNamara, who he didn't 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.240 really know well, who said, I want to book you 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.120 to ride a horse at Bendigo on Corfield Cup Day. Now, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.280 the big race meeting at Bendio on Corfield Cup Day 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.400 was an annual event, attracted a lot of people, a 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 lot of horses, and a lot of bookmakers, very strong meeting. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.800 Stevie accepts the ride because, you know, why not. He's 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 on a thing called Brianda Hall. He's never really hurt it. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.920 But he looks up the form and it's going to 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.439 be a forty to one shot. It's not much good, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.079 you know, it's last start at ben nowhere and here 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.760 it is in a stronger grade against better horses and 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.839 it's basically the long shot of the field. I think 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.920 it was forty to one. He says, yeah, yeah, right, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.360 just for the losing fee. When he gets the races, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.600 it's just another thing he's going to do that day. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.000 He's not taking much notice when the trainer of Brianda Hall, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.760 Alan McNamara, comes into the jockey's room. He brings in 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.120 the colors, the colors that you wear, the silk colors, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.040 and he's there to pick up the saddle from Steve 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.120 Wood to saddle the horse. And this is a transaction 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.200 that happens, you know, one hundred and twenty times at 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.800 every race meeting. Trainers come in, they talked to the jockey, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.200 say and the colors, they get the saddle, I saddle 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.560 the horse. It's routine. But Stevie Wood notices that Alan 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:00.320 McNamara is very nervous. He's stuttering and stammering and he's 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.240 sweating and he can't sort of make it much sense. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.440 And Steve Wood sort of shrugs it oft and sins, well, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.720 work cares. This thing hasn't got a chance anyway. It 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.720 doesn't really matter if he tells me how to ride it. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.720 It can't help. So he goes out and he gets 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.440 legged up. Now the funny thing is that Alan McNamara 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.880 doesn't speak to him. It's the owner of the horse, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.320 a man called Rick Renzla, that Steve Wood had met 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.720 once before, had ridden a winner for him at Banella, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.160 I think, up in the northeast. And he remembered that 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.640 Rick Wenzella had paid him a big sling. He must 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.000 have backed this winner in the northeast and at one 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.360 and Renzala had slung him serious money, several hundred dollars, 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.280 which was a lot of done in those days. It 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.560 was like getting several thousand dollars now. And so he 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.680 was kindly disposed towards Rerenzala. But Renzella grabs him, leads 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.560 him over to the horse Branda Hall, or the horse 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.880 that is supposed to be Branda Hall, and Legimutin says, 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.440 listen here, a little prick, you just jump to the 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.960 front and it'll win easy. Just stay out of trouble. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.680 Jump to the front, stay out of trouble. It'll win easy. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.160 At this point, Stevie Wood looks at the bedding toe 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.200 to odds on the big board and it's you know, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.880 it's forty to one, and he goes, really, what makes 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.080 you think that? Ranzela says, listen, just do it. I'll 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.560 tell you words to that effect. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.720 Pretty tough, pretty brisk, pretty. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.480 Brusk, and Wood just picks up the reins, rides a 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.240 horse out on the track and he gets over on 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.840 its neck and acts it along with the straight to 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:46.960 the start and he looks up the toe board. It 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.280 hasn't changed. It stayed the same. So he thinks this 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.200 is strange. They think it's going to win, but no 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.240 one's backing it, at least on the track. So he 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.880 goes round to the start and it jumps well, he 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.640 jumps it out and it goes to the front. And 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.560 the further they go, the further ahead it gets, which 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.960 was probably a tactical error in some respects. It was 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.399 a distant race. It was I think two thousand meters 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.800 as we say now. And when he comes around to 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.360 the head of the strait the second time, because it's 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.760 a full circuit plus a bit. He said, I'm flat 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.440 out hearing the other horses hoofbeats. Normally in a race, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.160 you can hear the other jockeys talking to each other, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.639 you can hear the hoofbeads, you can hear the whips, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.000 you can hear everything. He said, I'm out so far 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.240 in front that I can't hear anything. And I look 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.600 over my shoulder and I realize I'm lengths in front. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.440 But my horse just keeps going. He said, I've got 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.159 a lap full of horses. Jockeys say, it's a great feeling. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.159 You're in the straight in front and your horse is 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.160 full of running. So I just let him stride along. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.919 And he said, I think it was a record margin 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.600 that year. I think it won by twelve or fifteen lengths. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.080 The horse wins, he goes in, picks up the that 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:05.479 goes into to do correct weight, and he's called him 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:10.280 by the stewarts as the trainer and the owner, and 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.800 he wisely decides that he need not share with the 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:18.320 stewards the information that the owner told him it would 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.280 bolt in. And he says, I got no idea I 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.200 just thought I was going around for the losing ride 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.960 money and it went really well. I've got no idea why. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.760 Of course, at the back of his mind he's thinking 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.560 that these guys have hit the horse with a go 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.520 fast drug, one of the early drugs that started to 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.520 be used back in that era. And he's sure that 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.679 it's a drug thing and that the stewards will be 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:49.680 on the case. But he's puzzled because he realizes that 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.320 it hasn't been backed. Of course, there's no sign that's 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.040 went back. It won the race at forty to one, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.000 no money's gone on, and he thinks, well, it's a miss. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.240 And Rick Renzela said to the stewart's last start, you 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.919 know my horse here we got its tongue over the 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.280 bit and didn't run well. It choked down, it couldn't 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.399 gallop properly, and I was very confident today that it 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:14.200 would go better. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:15.240 Et cetera, et cetera. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.679 This is all so much eyewash. The trainer is just 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.840 nodding and smiling and agreeing with Rick Renzelle, and the 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.879 stewards dismissed the inquiry. They decide it's just one of 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.600 those weird things that happens, and the main reason they 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.080 dismissed the inquiry is that there's no sign of the 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.840 money going on. Later on, Renzella talks to Steve Wood, 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.600 and Wood says, well, I don't know much, but I 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.200 know that if a horse starts at forty to one, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.240 you haven't put anything on it, and therefore nobody's got 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:51.080 any money out of it. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.000 You have to back it. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.040 And Renzelle says, you come to a barbecue at my 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.240 place tomorrow down in this address in Brighton, hands him 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.480 an address and we'll have a whack up of the 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:07.600 money and I'll explain it to you then. And young 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.760 Stevie Wood sees to be young wife. We'll be going 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.439 to a barbecue down in Brighton tomorrow, Sunday barbecue, and 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.320 we're not going to miss it because I don't know 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.560 what they're up to, but there's plenty of money in 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.800 it by the sound of it. So they get in 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.040 the blue Pontiac that Rick Grinsela had at some stage 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.520 earlier sold to young Steve Would and they drive down 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.800 the road in this thing that's like a waterbed cross 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.320 with a cabin cruiser, and they pull up at the 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.439 address in Brighton, and it's a nice house in a 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.119 street full of very nice houses, you know, doctor's lawyers, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.760 all that sort of stuff. And he goes in and 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.560 there's missus Rinzale. She was a very handsome woman, beautifully dressed, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.320 very polite. Da Da Da da da. And there's the trainer, 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.560 Allan McNamara, looking much happier than he had at the races. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:05.199 And there's a guy called Rookie who was Renzale's driver, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.600 which is code for a bodyguard. And Rookie was a 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.199 tough guy that Steve would actually got to like. He 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:12.960 sort of liked him. And he said there was a 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.239 guy there called Fred from Sydney. He said, I never 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.159 knew his real name. He was just Fred from Sydney. 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.800 Always had a gun under his arm, under his coat, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.240 and he said I didn't like him at all. He 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.359 was quite spooky. And there was a few others. He 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.480 said it was a big car dealer there, well known 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.919 car dealer that used to advertise cars on television at 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:32.960 that time. He said, I don't know what he was 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.520 doing there, but he was there, and a few other people. 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.760 And at some point during the barbecue, Renzalez had a 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.639 couple of bees, and he says, Stevie, you better come 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.639 over and talk to him in the office. So he 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.960 leads him into the office in the house and into 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.359 his study thing, and he says, you want to know 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.439 what happened yesterday? He said, look at these pictures on 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:57.520 the wall. And Wood looks at the wall and goes, oh, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:02.919 there's Code of Penn Flemington or whatever he did. And 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.480 there's Code Pen again winning somewhere. And there's Brianda Hall 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.400 at such and such, and there's Damian Park at such 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.800 and such. These pictures, they're all black horses winning races, 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.440 and Werenzealous says, have a closer look. And he has 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.440 a close look and he realizes it's all the same 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:24.920 horse that in fact, there are supposed to be three 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.879 different horses, and these photos on the walls, but only 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.440 one of them is in each frame. In other words, 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.200 these are ringings. And that is when the penny drops 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.960 for young Steve Wood that it's a ringing, not a 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.720 drug thing. And he said, but Rick, how did you 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:44.720 get money out of it? You didn't back it, And 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:46.480 Rick says, so I did, but I didn't back it. 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.119 On course, what I did was, you know what the 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.879 of course daily double is with the tab and he 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.639 said yeah. He said, well, what I do is I 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:59.359 couple up my sure thing in the second leg with 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:04.480 restarter in the first leg. I back each combination from 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:07.560 the first leg with my horse in the second, and 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:11.520 that way, no matter what wins the first leg. And 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.359 you hope it's a longer shot. You hope it's at 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:17.280 ten to one shot, not a hot favorite. We've got 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.200 it in the second with a horse that no one 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.920 else in the world has backed. It's just an aberration. 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:25.919 And so we scooped the pool and he said, I've 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.800 got twenty six thousand dollars out of the pool yesterday. 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:33.480