old fashioned nice guy. and led them to believe he s a man they could trust with their lives and their fortunes. more than a suave gigolo, baily was a calculating con man and his game was horses. there s a little bit of chaek to cheek dancing, a little bit of champagne, sooner or later this pigeon ends up at the stabs. you got it. they re talking horses. and he s selling them nags. all nags. what kind of money are we talking about? mostly between $50,000 and $200,000. for one horse? for one horse. and helen brach was only one of his victims. digging into bailey s record, miller and his team discovered he had made a successful 20-year career at of horse swindling. what we had evidence of was frauds which really crossed the threshold from simply taking someone s money to putting their