Featuring unseen interviews from before his death, the extraordinary story of the racehorse owner and punter, Barney Curley - from his tough origins as a Catholic in Fermanagh, through his audacious betting coups and his charitable decision to “give a little back” by donating all of his winnings to charity and die penniless. “It was never about the money, it was all for the challenge” 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. With exclusive access to the fascinating character who pulled off one of the most well-orchestrated and audacious gambles in sporting history, this film will be driven by a heist-like narrative arc and tell the story of a man driven by extraordinary times to do incredible things. The film will also explore the illuminating origins of the risk-taker in question and place him in the context of the history of the people of his region. That man was Barney Curley and he was a product of Northern Ireland.