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My biggest win was about 4 years ago now and it came about through good fortune rather than judgement. Splash Of Ginge, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, was running in a Group 3 handicap at Newbury. Earlier in the day I spoke to my uncle who is really into horse racing and he said ‘There is a tip floating about, something ginger, it’s a big price but a few people are talking about it. I’ll text you the name and race time later on.’
I didn’t think much of it, you hear a lot about tips and touches all the time. That afternoon I went into my bookies to put my usual Saturday afternoon football bets on (I don’t like betting football online) and people were indeed talking about this same horse. I put my football bets on and had a rush to the head, I put a tenner on it straight up and £15 ew. I don’t know why, and I suppose that is why I remember it so much.
Closer to race time the price hadn’t moved much from 33-1, it came in to 25s briefly and out to 40s but went off at 33-1. On my online account I had a couple of free bet vouchers that I hadn’t used up and I placed them on Splash of Ginge, I think one was for a fiver and one for a tenner.
I remember watching the race live, it was on Channel 4 at the time and it was up near the pace. It didn’t jump particularly fluently and I thought the pacesetters would fade as the conditions were pretty bottomless. Somehow it held on by about a length as at least one horse looked like collaring it at the line, and me and my Mum and Dad laughed in bemusement as it crossed the line in front. They had a couple of bob on it as well.
Later on I went to collect my winnings and the manager in the bookies who I know outside of there said that they had been completely wiped out and I remember her words of ‘The whole ******* town has had money on it.’
Someone knew something. I wasn’t complaining, a random tip ended up netting me close to 2 and half grand back. Suffice to say, I’ve not came close to winning near that since.
The ground will be interesting and is one to keep an eye out for over the next fortnight. Could very well be heavy ground this year.
