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Gay Future was the racehorse at the centre of an attempted fraud by an Irish betting syndicate in Great Britain in 1974 involving two chestnut horses.[1] The plot's ringleaders were the millionaire Irish builder Tony Murphy, a racing enthusiast, and the Scottish trainer Antony Collins.[2]
Preparation[edit]
At his stables, Collins initially presented a poorly performing horse as if it were the real Gay Future. This lowered the expectations of reviewers, and hence raised the betting odds on offer, and entered in the Ulverston Novice Hurdle at Cartmel in Cumbria to be held during the Bank holiday on 26 August.[3] The real horse was illicitly substituted,[4] for the impostor, Arctic Chevalier, in an M6 lay-by.[5]
On the day[edit]
The attempted fraud took place on the busiest day in the racing calendar with ten events taking place, and bets being made in numerous betting shops in London in double and triple wagers, which involved Gay Future in combination bets with two additional horses trained by Collins in earlier races at other courses. On the day, these two additional horses were withdrawn shortly before the races; they were never intended to run and remained at their stables.[6] Numerous bets would now roll over onto Gay Future, as the conspirators had planned.
Cartmel race course, a small isolated venue, had only one telephone line at the time connecting it with the outside world. This was deliberately kept engaged to prevent enquiries being made by betting firms headquarters, and the on course Tote was over worked by accomplices to prevent other bets being placed on the horse, which would have lowered the odds from 10-1.[5][1] Soap flakes were rubbed into the horse's legs to give the false impression that he was sweating.[2] Gay Future won easily, by fifteen lengths,[5] but bookmakers refused to pay out before an inquiry. In Ireland, however, they paid out.[3] Collins's other two horses involved in the scam were discovered at this time to have remained at their stables and suspicions were further raised.[7]
Trial and legacy[edit]
Following an investigation by Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Squad, a trial was held at Preston Crown Court in February 1976.[7] The two leading syndicate members, Collins and Murphy, were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the bookmakers.[8] Mr Justice Caulfield, a sympathetic judge,[2][1] fined Collins £1,000 combined with a suspended prison sentence.[9] The UK's Jockey Club barred Collins and Murphy from British racecourses for ten years.[5] The horse, Gay Future, broke his neck and died, aged six, at a racing event in Wetherby in January 1976.[5][9]
The affair was dramatised in Murphy's Stroke (1980), a TV film produced by Thames Television with Pierce Brosnan and Niall Toibin in the leads.[9] At an event commemorating the 40th anniversary in late August 2014 at the Cartmel racecourse, Collins said that he did not regret his actions.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Scannel - A Nearly Perfect Coup: The Gay Future Affair', RTÉ, 24 October 2005
- ^ abcDan Buckley 'The scandals that tarnished the sport of kings', Irish Examiner, 2 September 2004
- ^ abGreg Wood 'Racing: A racing scam in the tradition of Trodmore', The Independent, 29 August 1998
- ^ abChris Cook 'Gay Future betting plot still holds fascination at Cartmel, 40 years on', The Guardian, 25 August 2014
- ^ abcdeLiam O'Brien What’s the SP?: Betting on Racing: An A-Z, ebook partnership, p.61
- ^'Betting scams that left racing in a fix', Evening Standard, 2 September 2004
- ^ abNick Townsend The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History, London: Century, 2014, p.243
- ^Matt Majendie 'Three decades of scandal', BBC Sport, 5 October 2002
- ^ abcAndrew Rosthorn 'Gay Future remembered at Cartmel during spooky power cut'Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, Lancaster & North West Magazine, 27 August 2014
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By Timeform — published 7th February 2021
Bookmakers were spared losses estimated at millions of pounds after the third leg of an audacious betting coup came unstuck on Sunday.
The layers were prepared for the worst after the first two horses, Fire Away and Blowing Dixie, obliged at short prices after being backed at big odds, with only Gallahers Cross left to run.
The trio were linked together in a variety of wagers with several bookmakers when betting on Sunday’s races opened on Saturday night.
All three were sent off short-priced favourites after being snapped up at double-figure odds.
Paul Binfield, spokesman for Paddy Power, said: “I don’t want to reveal figures, but our liabilities would probably be on a par with others in the industry.
“The trading room at Power Tower breathed a huge sigh of relief when Get The Appeal foiled the gamble and crossed the line in front.”
After the victories of Fire Away and Blowing Dixie, the eyes of the racing world were focused on Gallahers Cross, trained Daragh Bourke, in the bet365 Handicap Hurdle at Musselburgh.
The race may only have carried a winning purse of £4,288, but it was worth an awful lot more to those in on the gamble and those punters would have been sitting comfortably for most of the two-and-three-quarter-mile contest.
Gallahers Cross travelled well up to the second-last flight, only to find little under pressure, and the 4-5 favourite faded into fourth place as the Paul Nicholls-trained Get The Appeal made all the running under Harry Cobden.
Gallaghers Cross BEAT
The last leg of the monster gamble fades in 4th...pic.twitter.com/ngzZINAua1
Until then the three-horse gamble was very much on.
Fire Away, who was available at 22-1 when betting opened, went off the evens favourite as he kick-started the gamble in the bet365 Novices’ Handicap Chase.
Having his first start for Laura Morgan, the eight-year-old romped home by 19 lengths in the hands of Richie McLernon after taking the lead after the third-last fence.
“We’ve had him 11 days. We bought him from Daragh Bourke,” the Leicestershire trainer told Musselburgh’s Twitter account.
“He had a couple of horses for sale. He was one of them. I did go to buy the other one, but we bought him instead.
“Fingers crossed, he can win a few more.”
Backed down from 9-1 to 4-6 favourite, Blowing Dixie brought up the second leg in the Betway Casino Handicap at Southwell.
The Iain Jardine-trained five-year-old looked to benefit from a drop in class when defying top weight by a smooth two and a half lengths in the hands of Andrew Mullen.
“He’s travelled through the race really strong and I wanted something to take me further, but I was there three out, so I let him get on with it,” Mullen told Sky Sports Racing.
“He’s very honest. He likes Southwell. He’s got course form round here and he came good today.
“I spoke to Iain this morning and he said ‘I think I’ve got him as well as I can and if he turns up, he’ll be hard to beat’. He was right.”
Not all bookmakers fell foul of the attempted coup. Simon Clare, head of PR at Ladbrokes Coral, revealed they managed to “dodge a bullet”.
“Our trading team who were on duty last night spotted the path of bets quite quickly and it was clear they were connected, so they reacted quickly and turned off the multiples for those three selections,” he said.
“We were aware something very organised was going on, but we managed not to face anything too scary.
“We saw what other people were saying and had our trader not spotted it and left it another half an hour or an hour, given the huge odds in play, you would have been facing huge liabilities.
“It’s hard to know what other firms were facing. We managed to dodge a bullet.
“Actually, for us, it was much more of those favourites winning was more of a nightmare for us than the attempted coup.”
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