Which raceurse was the scene of the ‘Gay Future Affair’? |

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EUROPE’S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY SAYS OTHER RIRS WON’T E OUT FOR FEAR OF G THEIR REERS
OPENLY GAY JOCKEY FDS NICHE HORSE RACG AND HAD A FLG AS A DRAG QUEEN
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GAY FUTURE
SPORTG CONTROVERSI: WONRFUL VILMENT OF GAY FUTURE STROKE STILL RONAT
WHICH RACEURSE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ‘GAY FUTURE AFFAIR’?

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VERY few of the racegoers who watched a horse lled Gay Future walkg around the para rg before the 4.20 race at Cartmel raceurse exactly 40 years ago today, on Augt bank holiday Monday 1974, would have fancied his chanc. * gay future jockey *

Yet not only did Gay Future w, he did so imprsive style, routg the field by 15 lengths at mouth-waterg odds of Future's victory was the fal part of what was arguably the most gen horse-racg bettg up of all time. Operatn Crock Of Gold was a cunng plan hatched a year earlier Ireland to relieve bookmakers on both sis of the Irish Sea of around £300, 000 (more than £3ln today) and me agonisgly close to scheme volved the swchg of hors and jockeys, disguis, a novel e of soap-flak and took advantage of tradnal bank holiday traffic also relied on a knowledge of bettg l and the isolatn of the quat Cartmel raceurse the Lake like many other brilliant plans that ultimately failed the plotters me unstuck through one simple mistake that they should have foreen and that lerally st them a men behd the Gay Future affair were a lourful bunch of diverse rglear was Tony Murphy, a flamboyant cigar-smokg lnaire builr om County Cork who drove around a gold Rolls-Royce, which often had wheelbarrows and bags of cement stickg out of s wanted to pull off a mighty gamble to h the bookmakers Ireland and Bra for six and was while he was havg a drk wh his iends 1973 that he me up wh what he thought was a foolproof way of dog Colls pictured Augt 1974 [REX]The servic of two racehorse traers, Edward O'Grady, based Ireland, and Old Harrovian Tony Colls, a stockbroker who had a small yard Stland, were enlisted. Colls was sent a chtnut racehorse whout any abily whose paperwork intified him as Gay the real Gay Future, who looked siar to the other horse, was beg traed to perfectn by O'Grady Ireland.

EUROPE’S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY SAYS OTHER RIRS WON’T E OUT FOR FEAR OF G THEIR REERS

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Colls was stcted to enter Gay Future a race at Cartmel on Augt bank holiday days before the race the real Gay Future me over by boat om Ireland and was taken a horsebox to a quiet lane close to Cartmel raceurse where he was transferred to Colls' horsebox, ready for the race the followg syndite knew Gay Future was a certaty for the race but if they had simply placed lots of big bets on the horse the bookmakers would have been they disguised what they were dog.

Colls was told to enter two other hors meetgs elsewhere England wh rac takg place five and 10 mut before and after Gay Future's race at on the morng of the big day Murphy and his associat flew to London and ma a tour of bettg shops, placg a vast amount of "multiple bets" uplg Gay Future wh Colls' other two although Colls travelled to Plumpton East Ssex, where one of his hors was entered, there was never any plan to n the other hors. What Tony Murphy was asked urtThey were entered as ys to be whdrawn at the last mute, to put the booki off the 's syndite knew that as the other hors would be nonnners all the money they had placed on multiple bets would end up gog on Gay Future - the one horse that was fely gog to race. Meanwhile at Cartmel everythg was done to put punters off backg Gay the race soapflak were bbed on to the horse's body to make look as if he was sweatg up.

OPENLY GAY JOCKEY FDS NICHE HORSE RACG AND HAD A FLG AS A DRAG QUEEN

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"The horse me to the paddock lookg like Father Christmas, " Tony Colls later experienced amatr who had been down to ri Gay Future the morng newspapers was replaced the saddle by a top Irish amatr lled Tim Jon, who had ridn the real Gay Future pretend to have trouble mountg his horse, all signed to make s price O'Grady's head lad, who had been workg wh Gay Future Ireland, disguised himself wh a wig and sunglass at the track so that no one would regnise geni of choosg Cartmel as the venue to land the gamble, and dog on an Augt bank holiday - the bit day of the racg year - now me to play.

Cartmel was not nnected to the bookmakers' Exchange Telegraph system by which firms uld munite to their reprentativ at the this premobile phone age there was jt one way of ntact wh the outsi world: a red phone box which members of Murphy's gang ma sure was kept permanently bookmakg firm Ladbrok realised uld face a sizeable payout wh a Gay Future w and so sent a motorbike rir om Manchter to drive to Cartmel to place bets on the horse to shorten his he got ught the bank holiday traffic and when he arrived the race was already Crock Of Gold syndite got ready to pop the champagne rks. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.

JACK DUERN: UK'S ONLY OUT GAY JOCKEY LIGHTED TO MAKE RETURN TO RACE RIDG AFTER TWO-YEAR ABSENCE

Gay Future was the racehorse at the centre of an attempted d by an Irish bettg syndite Great Bra 1974 volvg two chtnut hors. 11 relatns. * gay future jockey *

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.

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“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said.

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"And fairns ’s not dissiar other sports - hence why there are very few openly gay footballers and athlet. It’s been more than four years sce apprentice jockey Jack Duern me out as gay and the English rir says the sport has bee more acceptg. He said he immediately lost ris om olr, nservative traers who owned on his beg openly gay.

Duern, who has 21 reer ws, said there are other gay jockeys the sport but that they are reluctant to e out. Jack Duern, the UK's only out gay jockey, has said is fantastic to be back the weighg room after returng to the saddle July.

SPORTG CONTROVERSI: WONRFUL VILMENT OF GAY FUTURE STROKE STILL RONAT

"There are a few traers who are openly gay but as a jockey, I was the first one so was que dntg but I was great iends wh most of the weighg room and I knew wouldn't be a problem wh them anyway. The story of Gay Future is perhaps one of the bt known exampl of a group of people workg at the top of their game to cheat the bookmakers.

The former began trag Gay Future, whilst the latter was sent a chtnut that looked a lot like Gay Future and was intified as such his paper work.

Colls was asked to enter Gay Future to a race that was takg place at Cartmel Raceurse on the Augt bank holiday Monday. The actual Gay Future ma his way om Ireland to England by boat, beg secreted to a horse box a few om the Lake District village a uple of days before the race.