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I’m sure some of us over the years must of copped a few beauties?
If you don’t want to indulge us all with amounts won share the details of the lucky 15 you nailed on a Wednesday back in 1994!
I picked out a 50/1 winner on the flat at ripon a number of years ago. I don’t recall it’s name but it was definitely more luck than judgement as I was only just starting to take a keen interest in the sport.
I’ve landed a few doubles over the years that have paid a very handsome ROI figure.
The standout one came at last years festival. Vauban, APT and L’homme presse.
I also had a 4 fold with langer Dan in it which continues to haunt me to this day!
After a £180,000 rollover from the Cheltenham Festival in 1989, I did a Jackpot perm at Lingfield on the Friday.
I was VERY lucky as the longer-priced horses in my perm kept winning.
By the last race I had the top five in the betting running for me in a ten-runner contest.
The quintet went clear turning for home and one of them, Tree Poppy, surged away to win by 25 lengths, so I ultimately landed the bet in cold blood, really.
The clever bit was the Jackpot paid just over £40,000 to £1, way more than the equivalent SP accumulator would have done which was something like 6,600/1 from memory.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Holy Jesus!
Now it’s clear why you’ve got a lot of spare time on your hands to post on here at such regularity Ian!
Well done sir. One final question. Are you single?? Asking for a friend
Thank you, TC, needless to say when asked who my all-time favourite Jumps horse is, my answer “Tree Poppy” seldom fails to bemuse (or amuse).
Single and very happy about it – far better for me and far better for the world’s unattached ladies, trust me on this.
Never date a narcissist.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Why do I know this, and that you used the win to clear your then mortgage, and was on a similar level to Andrew Black’s big win way back then.
I had forgotten the exact
detail of the bet, but it must be my excellent retentive memory.It must have cropped up on another thread gamble – you have an excellent memory.
Chezza is, in reality, the most boring man on Earth.
A trip to the London Docklands branch of Abbey National to make the aforementioned capital repayment was Chezza’s idea of celebration.
Chezza knows how to live!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Ian,
Remarkably similar to my own answer to the original question. A rollover from Gold Cup day to Lingfield on the Friday, slightly longer priced winners (14/1 and 10/1 in the first two races) producing a similar payout of £43,000. From which Tote Credit deducted 10% for the off course betting tax!
Did you suffer the same deduction, or did you actually go to Lingfield?
What a touch Ian and ap.
On the dogs in 2009 I done a 50p straight patent forecast totalling £3.50.
All 3 came in with forecast payouts something like £18, £20 and £22.
With a Coral bonus of 10% it all came to approx £4,500. As I waited by the payout counter for what seemed like an eternity, they offered and I agreed to take it home in cash which they put in an envelope I couldn’t hide anywhere, and thought all eyes were on me for the next hour until I arrived home.
Bought a TV which I still have today, paid off a loan and with the new TV got SKY, which I cancelled five years later with their price hikes.
I actually did the bet via Coral by phone at Waterloo Station (on my way from London Docklands to Raynes Park for a shift at the Racing Post*) off course, Alan, and I don’t recall them making any deduction (though it was 34 years ago, so I might have forgotten – thinking about it, maybe they let me pay the tax on when I placed the bet?).
It was the dead money already in the pool, as a proportion of live money going in, that made me think it was a value bet to have a crack at way back then.
If you were doing it too, I must have been on the right lines!
*PS: It made me late for work but, when I later confessed to the Chief Sub Editor that the real reason for my tardiness was I was placing what turned out to be a winning Jackpot perm at Lingfield, he said that’s the best excuse for being late he’d ever heard, so no worries.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Shooting Light in the Aon Chase at Newbury: 4000/100 with Coral Credit plus ~2200/50 with the ill-fated Sporting Options betting exchange
Shooting Light was owned by John Brown, a big cheese at Hills, who were short on it all day; and the horse had been off for well over a year, but had plenty of back-form that was more than good enough to win
A warm glow that evening
The 1998-99 football season, I placed a £5 on Man Utd to win the Prem, Sunderland to win The First Division, Fulham the Second (Keegan season) and Brentford the Third.
On the last day, it needed Brentford to win at Cambridge to complete the set. Thankfully they did, and I copped about £2300.
I decided that the bookies would never get that money back, and I must have wagered only about £3-400 worth of bets in the 24 years since!
My best bet, for timing, was a £3 on Maori Venture in 1987. It was the last day of the spring term in my first-year as a student, and I only had a tenner left in my account after that bet was placed.
I’ve never been a big bettor. I remember, when working as a board man at Ladbrokes in Torquay in ’85, being given a very confident tip on a Jeremy Tree horse (can’t remember name) by the flashiest regular in the shop. He was so bullish about it (he rarely shared his tips) that I had to pop to the William Hill down the road and put a whole….£3 on it! £3 meant I was really serious about having a bet on, as I usually only ever put on a single £1. It won at 7/2. I remember being absolutely chuffed.
There, is my membership of this forum annulled now I’ve admitted all of that?
Think the biggest priced winner iv ever had was lord lariat in last seasons Irish national
Had a grand total of £1 on at around 118.0-120.0 on the exchange
Will probably never do that again and I didn’t even want him to win, would’ve won an extra £50 had frontal Assault won
As for my biggest monetary win I had a trixie on monkfish rsa, allaho ryanair and minella indo gold cup all 10/1+ come in
Was some thrill watching indo jump and travel the way he did, then gamely gallop up the hill under Jack kennedy
Iv one on
Facile vega 8/1 Supreme
Galopin des champs 7/1 GC
American mike 14/1 ballymoreFor this year, if Mike can return well from his setback you never know
“I decided that the bookies would never get that money back”
Top man, wise man – never give it back.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"It’s mentioned mine a few times , I spent the winter backing Lord Windermere before his GC , that was a nice few hundred , , both Grey Abbey and Native River never seemed to lose for me , Al Co 66s for the Scot Nat was nice and then there was the 4000-1 lucky 15 with old Yorkhill winning at 66s the highlight
Grand National day 2009.Couldn’t understand why Mon Mome was 80’s on the morning of the race so went in again when he drifted to 100.Tenner ew both bets.
This would have been enough to dine out on for a while but also had a tenner ew on the ill fated Culcabock at 66’s later on in the day.
A very speculative 25p ew yankee including these two wonderhorses and 2 long forgotten unplaced shirehorses put the icing on the cake.Sublimity at 80/1 after seeing it tipped up on good old Ceefax. Only £1 ew but £1 is a big bet for me. I became a legend in my local Corals after that. I think it has probably paid for all of my losing bets ( of which there are many) since. I backed Mon Mome at 33/1 for the National and it still hurts that he won at 100/1. ( hurts even more because when I do think about it I think of Liam too and I get a double pang of sadness).
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