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Not quite a record, but when Monksfield won on his racecourse debut, he paid 647/1 on the tote; that must be a record winning dividend for a champion.
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!
That’s happened in the US a couple of times with no "show" dividend being declared due to no bets.
Can remember some of the BF layers got seriously burned not long ago when a long odds on horse in a novice chase fell & was immediatley offered at 999/1 & was remounted & got up to win on the line.
Oooooh how sore was that.
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