Episode 31 - Snickers and the Foiled Race Horse Doppelgänger
A horse wins a race by a hair… and then the paint starts dripping down its legs.
This week on True Crime Culinary, Leah dives into one of the strangest scandals in horse racing history: the 1984 Fine Cotton scandal, where gamblers swapped a racehorse, used spray paint to disguise it, and nearly pulled off the perfect betting con.
But somehow, this story also leads directly to the history of Snickers — the candy bar named after a real horse.
From the rise of Mars Incorporated during the Great Depression to Olympic sponsorships, endurance athletes, and one extremely questionable spray-paint…
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