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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I have seen him twice, oddly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Rob W<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Racing <racing-bounces@ausrace.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>L.B.Loveday<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 30 May 2019 7:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <racing@ausrace.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [AusRace] (no subject)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1>Conman ‘jockey’ Christopher Woods rides back into town<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal>Mark Morri, The Daily Telegraph<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>May 29, 2019 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subscriber only<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>One of Sydney’s most colourful conman is back in town after being released from an American jail where he served four years for a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Christopher Woods lived the life of a millionaire, mostly on other people’s money, claiming to be one of the world’s top jockeys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=208 height=157 style='width:2.1666in;height:1.6354in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D51795.049AFDD0" alt="https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f93561b0d364cceab4b27ccdbf63d75a?width=650"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Christopher Woods was able to scam millions of dollars posing as a champion jockey. File picture<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>In reality, the boy from a Maroubra housing commission estate was a Randwick stablehand for a short time, but was able to convince people he was a Melbourne Cup-winning rider.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>He ripped off punters by saying he could give them a sure thing at the races because he was in on the “fix’’.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“He has probably gone through $20 or $30 million of others people’s money,” retired Detective Inspector Mark Smith told <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia">True Crime Australia</a>’s Police Tape podcast.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“I’ve known him probably 30 or more years.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=650 height=487 style='width:6.7708in;height:5.0729in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D51795.049AFDD0" alt="https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/02177cae611ba5390f42896bff2dd04a?width=650">Woods liked to live a life of luxury — on other people’s money. File picture<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>His favourite story is when Woods found himself in strife for giving some big time punters in Sydney the wrong information on some horses.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>He spent the next three days being chauffeur-driven around the city in a gold Rolls-Royce, but unfortunately for him he was tied up in the boot, and the chauffeurs were Sydney criminals Adrian Kay and “Bob the Basher” Rakich.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Every so often Rakich would drag Woods out of the boot, give him a belting and then stuff him back in the boot of the Roller.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“It was a colourful time,’’ Smith said.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>While Woods is still alive, Rakich and Kay were not so lucky. Rakich died when he crashed a Ferrari in the eastern suburbs in 1986. Later that year, Kay was shot dead at his Kings Cross hotel, King Arthur’s Court.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Smith said Woods loved the high life. When in America he lived in the best hotels and put everything on his black American Express card.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“He would get on a plane and would turn left — never right — into first class. It’s the only way he flew.’’<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Smith once spoke to the con artist about his lifestyle and asked what he would do if he was down to his last $10.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“I wouldn’t bother with food, I’d probably just go get a tan,” was the answer. “He was a narcissist,” said Smith.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>In 2012, Woods, then 53, was sentenced to four years in a federal prison in California and ordered to repay more than $3 million for his part in a mortgage fraud scheme, but he is now back in Australia.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Smith said he saw him recently on a bus in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. “I couldn’t be bothered talking to him. He was a parasite who lived off other people.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>