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Sat 10 Oct 2007Race-fixing trial hears of 'false favourites' trendBRITAIN:Anyone who regularly bet on favourites to win a horse race would have at least a two-thirds chance of losing, the Kieren Fallon "race-fixing" trial heard at the Old Bailey.Legal adviser to the online betting exchange Betfair, David O'Reilly, agreed with George Carter-Stephenson, counsel for the Derry jockey Fergal Lynch, that betting on horses to lose rather than win was nowadays "big business" for exchanges.