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A lot of hard luck stories over on the other thread but surely it hasn’t all been bad luck as most of us wouldn’t still be here to tell the tales.
So, at the risk of launching an after-timer’s paradise, what about those times when you shouldn’t have been paid out but were.
Mine has to be the 2013 Foxhunters.
I’d come to the conclusion that the bookies were consistently struggling to create an ante post book for this race – and still are – and if it was the previous year’s Gold Cup winner heading to defend his crown he’d only have to step foot outside his box in the autumn to be half the price that was available about Salsify to defend his.
The original thread is on here somewhere.
I was fully confident he’d turn the recent form around with Tammys Hill back on his likely favored surface and from months before I well and truly nailed my colors to this horse all the way down from c. 10/1 and kept topping up even at the 2/1 on the day after the defection of his closest rival.
There was surely nothing that would even come close but how wrong was I. Step forward Oscar Delta.
My heart still goes out to Jane Mangan but did I do a little dance when it happened?. I’m ashamed to say I well and truly did.
Lee
Lee,
on the other thread, I put up a few near misses…………but because of the slightly less amounts invovled, I left out 3 singles from the 2012-13 season, that floored me.
The 2013 Festival was my worst ever, but on to the last day, and I had £10 to £15 on a horse at 28’s, and after a torrid week, I was delighted to see him go clear after the last. I can still picture myself punching the air, shouting “Go on Oscar Delta, you’re a f*****g certainty”
Haha Lee, glad you got a winner out of it…………..though that wouldn’t have been my sentiment at the time
The first one of mine that springs to mind was in 2012. It wasn’t quite the biggest single I’ve ever had up, but wasn’t far off it. Certainly my biggest priced winner. Was sitting watching ATR on a run of the mill Tuesday night, and noticed a horse called Josie S and B running at Roscommon. I’d seen him on his debut, and thought he showed a bit of promise. He was around the 33-1 mark this night, but available at 270’s to 300’s on Betfair. He had no right to win, but the jockey set off like a scalded cat, and the others were happy to let him do so……………except, as occasionally happens, they misjudged it, he was a mile clear, and he didn’t come back to them. Won a very decent amount, just from switching over to ATR, and betting a horse who shouldn’t have figured…….unbelievable good fortune.
I’ve bet him 3 or 4 times since, and he’s never came close to making the frame, up there with my luckiest bets ever.
LOL Wilson, I was there and on Oscar Delta, I put my binoculars down just as the gasp went out from the stand and as I looked up I saw Oscar riderless. I was gutted but that’s life as they say.
I don’t think I have ever had a lucky winner worth mentioning.
I definitely have one bet that shouldn’t have come off though.
It wasn’t the outcome, but rather the odds that should never have been in the case of my bet.
I had been watching the Athletics on TV before heading down town for some shopping and decided to check out the betting in general across the screens at my local independent bookies. They used to use Stan James odds supplied live through the SIS facts screens. There it was written large on screen 3:- “Mens 400m Kirani James 9/4”. I had a double take, because the two ahead of him in the betting were already out of the race, one scratched through injury and the other failed to get out of his heat.
My first thought was that the screen had frozen but it kept refreshing itself and the odds never changed. I asked the manager to check the odds on the computer and couldn’t believe when she dialled it up and confirmed he was 9/4. I felt that £40 to win £90 wasn’t being greedy and Kirani James duly hosed home a couple of days later.
I can only assume someone at Stan James had a brain fart there, because Kirani James was a best price 4/7 when I checked the other firms 30 minutes after placing the bet.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Cheltenham 86 day 2; had a bad first day, but lumped last of my dough on Bobsline for 2 miler. BuckHouse flew home, Bobsline staggered around unplaced, all the irish around me going berserk with joy. What happend to Bobsline?” I asked. “Didn’t you know?” they said, “Bobsline had sore feet.” Apparently I was the only Irishman in C’ham thta didn’t know.
So there I was, money all gon after only 2 races on day 2; the third race was a big handicap hurdle and I still had 4 placepot tickets running, 2 off them on Josh Gifford’s Whiskey Eyes. Behind all thru, he ran up the hill like a tiger to snatch 4th by a head. Kept me in the placepot, and I ended with 2 winning tickets + over £2K, a ot of money in those days.
Whiskey eyes, bless him
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