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Equinoctial won a race at Kelso for Norman Miller at odds of 250-1 in November 1990. I know Andrew Heywood was the jockey.
That was the accepted high figure for a long time, though something in the back of my mind tells me it might have been equalled since.
That’d be my best answer, anyway.
The all-weather equivalent is definitely Tioga Gold, 125-1 winner for Lee James at Southwell in January 2007.
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Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I suppose it depends if you count all those 999-1 horses matched on betfair.
I think it was a Hambro horse at Warwick Grays but can’t remember the name of it off hand.
Beechy Bank was the Hambro horse but it was only 200-1.
Like you Grays I thought something had won at 250’s in recent times.
Wantage is quite close to Newbury – could have used you on some of those West Berks quiz questions last night, GD!
Are you still bike-less after last weekend’s abortive pointing trip?gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Ah but can you google during these quizzes!!!
Those questions looked a bit tricky for me,if the likes of yourself were struggling then it must have been very tough.
Maybe next time you should doctor the quizmasters questions and place in a section on Cartmel races and the career of Quixall Crosset,that would just do the job.
Bike is back in action thanks and may be used if I decide to go to Sandown a week Saturday.
That’s two “t”s in Crossett, you heathen!!!
Yeah, we could certainly have used some Young Ones-style doctoring of the questions**. One passing mention each of Fakenham and Folkestone was as close as the entire quiz came to the lower-grade courses, and Duncan Idaho was probably the lowest-rated horse. Group and Graded stuff all the way otherwise!
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(** Answer: 604, by Toxteth O’Grady)
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I seem to recall a 7/8 runner sprint race in the mud at somehere like Beverley or Carlisle about 8/9 years ago, and I think it might have been 200/1.
Arctic Blue, at 200-1, won at Chepstow in 2005. The Great Delaney (150-1) was another big-priced victor at the same track – but the aforementioned 250/1 winner ( Equinoctial )is probably the one you’re after.
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If memory serves, Alan Amies, who was working as a race reader, actually managed to back Equinoctial to the tune or £20 or so. He was probably the only person there who did, and the bookie who paid him was more than a little put out to be handing over a four-figure sum on what should have been the mother of all skinners.
500-1 Pablo’s Pulse at Warwick Farm in Sydney (22-8-1987)
500-1 Anntelle at Canterbury in Sydney (3-7-1982)
400-1 Zulu Gold at Cheltenham in Adelaide (11-5-1982)
Highest tote dividends (Australia)
702 pounds and sixpence for 5 shillings — Chief Park Drive 29-12-1951 (odds of 2808-1)
Biggest trifecta ( 1-2-3 in order) for a $1 stake
$175,155 Randwick Welter Hcp 28-6-1986. (placed horses were 40-1. 50-1, 100-1)
At Caulfield the 1982 Oakleigh Plate trifecta dividend on the NSW tote paid $348,849.And just to think, I was planning on putting them in an accumulator but was broke at the time.
Duncan Idaho was probably the lowest-rated horse. Group and Graded stuff all the way otherwise!
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That’s Duncan Hi-daho, apparently!
Duncan Idaho was probably the lowest-rated horse. Group and Graded stuff all the way otherwise!
That’s Duncan Hi-daho, apparently!
Aye, from the same lips that brought us "Kooto Star"!
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Of "all time"?
6679:10 = 668/1 La Manche as winner of ‘Prix du Rhone’ at Maisons-Laffitte in 1910 (owner of the horse was Mr. P. du Deserts).
Highest-priced winner at the tote in a German race was:
2924:10 = 292/1 Baro as winner of ‘Preis von St. Georgen’ at Frankfurt on April 17th, 1911 – this race was a steeple-chase for gentleman-riders.
1999: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/raci … 33747.html
A PUNTER was celebrating an early Christmas present yesterday after backing a horse which paid a Tote win dividend of pounds 916.40 to a pounds 1 stake.
Coralpha beat 29 rivals in the first race at Navan on Saturday at a starting price of 33-1. Racegoers were stunned again when told of the Tote returns. Coralpha, trained in Co. Carlow by Pat Fahy, also paid a place dividend of pounds 118.40.
The five-year-old won by two lengths from Just Two, a 5-1 joint-favourite, with another 33-1 shot, Tisrabraq, back in third. Tisrabraq paid pounds 236.90 for a place. The computer straight forecast paid pounds 213.99.
But the win dividend failed to break the Irish record. A Tote Ireland spokesman said the record is pounds 927.00, from Naas in November last year. In Britain in recent years, the highest win dividend is around pounds 270, the Tote said yesterday.
I thought I remembered that a couple of years ago in a mid-week Irish race a horse at 20/1 won, but there was no win dividend as nobody had put any money into the pool on him.
Technically odds of "not defined" – beat that!
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