Gay Kindersley (2 June 1930 – 21 April 2011) was a British champion amateur jump jockey.
[2] At the age of 21, he announced that he wanted to get married, so his family sent him to Canada, where he worked as an oil rig "roughneck", and as a Calgary Stampede rodeo competitor.
[2] Kindersley broke his back at Stratford in 1955, and again at Hurst Park in 1962, after which his doctor told him to stop riding; he ignored the advice, and continued.
[2] Kindersley was married twice,[3] firstly in 1956 to Margaret "Magsie" Diana, daughter of the actor Hugh Wakefield,[4] for nearly 20 years.
[2] Kindersley died on 21 April 2011, aged 80, and was survived by four of his children from his first marriage, both from his second, and by both his wives.