Gay Future bettg plot still holds fascatn at Cartmel, 40 years on | Horse racg | The Guardian

Contents:

• SPORTG CONTROVERSI: WONRFUL VILMENT OF GAY FUTURE STROKE STILL RONAT
• GAY FUTURE BETTG PLOT STILL HOLDS FASCATN AT CARTMEL, 40 YEARS ON
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• KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS
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SPORTG CONTROVERSI: WONRFUL VILMENT OF GAY FUTURE STROKE STILL RONAT

Gay Future, an Imposter Horse. This is the story about a horse lled Gay Future and how was the centre of a huge bettg stg the 1970s.

GAY FUTURE BETTG PLOT STILL HOLDS FASCATN AT CARTMEL, 40 YEARS ON

He worked closely wh Antony Colls who traed the horse qutn, lled Gay Future. Gay Future was born and raised at the stabl of Edward O’Grady.

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Over the urse of a year, the two men had sent an ferr horse to rac Stland to ensure Gay Future would appear to be a long shot.

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This helped to tablish reviews of Gay Future as a poor performer and raise the odds of him wng.

On race day at Cartmel, the odds of Gay Future wng were 10/1.

They bet on Gay Future as part of a double or triple ticket wh Opera Cloak and Anrwyke who were later whdrawn om the race, makg a sgle bet as per the ctom of the time. At the track – didn’t notice the flutter of activy around Gay Future.

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The reporter’s cursy had been roed when news of the big wngs for Gay Future turned out to be lked to bets wh the two hors.

Viewers at the racetrack were shocked when Gay Future won the race by 15 lengths. One of the biggt-known bettg sndals epted on the Augt Bank Holiday 1974 - the Gay Future up.

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Anthony Colls, a traer based Stland, entered Gay Future a meetg at Cartmel. 1974: The Gay Future bettg up. A vast number of small bets were laid, backg Gay Future for a double wh eher of the other two hors.

KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

Both Opera Cloak and Ankerwyke were pulled out of their rac, the double now beme a sgle and, hence, a lot of money was ridg on Gay Future. Soapy flak were then bbed to the legs of the Gay Future to give the imprsn the horse was sweatg and keep on-track punters om backg , holdg s odds of 10-1.

The bety of the Gay Future story is no one was harmed s makg apart om bookmakers.

So what helps make Gay Future one of racg’s most famo strok is s vast charm.

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If racg’s appeal really is built on the allure of rpectable skulduggery then Gay Future’s w at a lowly track Cumbria on an Augt Bank Holiday 1974 helped stamp the sport’s roguish reputatn the popular imagatn and then bare tails are that a good horse, Gay Future, was prepared Ireland by a pable traer to n a very bad race Bra. Sure enough Gay Future bolted at the movie Brosnan plays the Irish traer, Edward O’Grady, h out of Blackrock College and veterary school, wh a stellar racg reer his future. Cartmel Raceurse Cumbria, scene of Gay Future’s famo gamblg stroke on the Augt Bank Holiday 1974.

But a dramatic sense unqutnably is bee a bettg plot rried out by Irishmen 1970s Bra is impossible to unravel om the much wir and terwoven polil ntext of those sur there’s far more to the Gay Future affair than ivoly. A month before the Cartmel race, Colls received an unnamed chtnut geldg to his yard wh documents ditg him to be Gay Future.

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The real Gay Future ntued to be prepared Tipperary by O’Grady and was sent across the Irish Sea two days beforehand. Down a quiet untry lane, the two hors got ’s plan was for Gay Future to figure var double and treble bets wh two other Colls-traed hors entered to n at Plumpton and Southwell on the same day.

Then all bets would change to sgl on Gay a proven wner on the Flat, Gay Future looked to be much better than his rivals the Ulverston Novice Hurdle. Other optics clud soap flak gettg bbed onto Gay Future's flanks to suggt he was sweatg his chance this time off-urse bookmakers had ttoned on to somethg beg up. There were one or two notable exceptns who treated as vagari of the bettg war, the tsle that meant, for stance, had Gay Future been beaten, or fallen, or got tripped up, there wasn’t a snowball’s chance hell of the booki returng the loot on any kd of technily.

Twenty-first century plotters, sophistited as they may be, have not yet reached the stage of terptg the flow of electricy to targeted one view Cartmel might have been gettg s jt serts if there had been nefar activy on the day s officials chose to celebrate the Gay Future up. He was terviewed by the track’s PR man, who suggted the story was tremendo fun and that those punished were harshly ed that is the general view of Gay Future among racg fans the days, their light lyg chiefly the way the plotters managed to avoid alarmg the bookmakers until was too late. Thoands of pounds were staked bettg shops around Bra apparently nocuo doubl and trebl, the sort of bets favoured by mugs; when two of the hors volved beme non-nners, as was always tend, the booki realised they were facg an avalanche of sgle bets on Gay would still have been time for them to fluence his odds had he been nng at any other Brish track but the only phone le to Cartmel those days end an unmanned, red public phone box.

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In ntrast Gay Future bolted up at odds of turned out to be amic, sce most firms refed to pay up, a stance vdited by the subsequent urt verdict.

He arranged for an unknown horse, who he referred to as wng horse Gay Future, to be traed by Antony Colls the Uned Kgdom.