Thu, Oct 24, 1957
An outwardly reputable turf accountant (bookie) puts together a ringer scam by taking over an out of business bookies shop. He then pays for a ringer (a champion horse running under another lesser horse's colours) to be entered into a race at a race track and at the last moments rings around other turf accountants businesses to lay off imaginary bets whilst he has arranged for the phone lines to the race course to be 'out of order' thereby stopping those bookies taking the lay off bets from lowering the betting price on the ringer running at the race course. The Shadow Squad are suspicious of what has happened and set out to investigate the race betting but find that the gang have covered their tracks too well but they have a chance to expose the next race fixing attempt by the ringer gang and thereby bring down the big boss hiding behind the veil of respectability.
Mon, Oct 28, 1957
Carter starts to investigate the ringing gang, after the ringed horse Mr Kelly runs in a normal race and loses abysmally just a few weeks after romping home in the first ringed race run by the ringer gang. Ginger goes undercover at the ringer's stables posing as a well known bent jockey, the real jockey is living in Australia. Ginger identifies that the horse Mr Kelly has a similar lookalike horse at the stables which is a far better horse and let's Carter know. The ringing gang, led by the outwardly reputable book maker, Stevens, decide to carry out another ringing scam using the same horses to swap out for the race. Once again, the fake bookie's office starts laying off fake bets with other bookies whilst arranging for the phone lines to the race course to be 'out of order' thereby keeping the starting price at long odds for the ringer, Mr Kelly, before the race starts. In the meantime Carter is planning his own surprise for the ringing gang.