How many horses have won a Classic while hitting 999-1?

[Ex RubyLight]

I can’t remember any of them…. Obviously Betfair is roughly just 25 years old, prior to them it would have been difficult to get such a price in-running.

Maybe someone remembers something similar to tays’s Irish Oaks outcome.

[IanDavies]

Funnily enough, I watched Shirley Heights winning The Derby in 1978 on YouTube this afternoon.

He wasn’t in a particularly promising position two furlongs out.

Wings Of Eagles is a more recent possible example.

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[Cork All Star]

Wasn’t Troy quite a long way back when he won at Epsom?

[Nathan Hughes]

I was thinking Wings of Eagles

I’d like to see Night of Thunders in running prices on his guineas.

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[IanDavies]

He certainly was, CAS: https://youtu.be/gHHcWfo0Hqg

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[Jaywalker]

Night Of Thunder was matched at 999-1 in his 2000 Guineas .

Google “ Timeform Full Archive “ to source this and also the Betfair SP .

[Nathan Hughes]

Brilliant, thank you Jaywalker

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[Ex RubyLight]

Thanks, Jaywalker. The Hannon horse won at 40/1, the probability to hit 1000.0 in running is more likely than for a horse that goes off at 10/11.

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