ONE genius punter celebrated a £17,000 jackpot from only a £2 wager after predicting a tremendous 10,317-1 five-fold.
The Paddy Energy buyer from Dublin landed the large pay out after betting on final Saturday’s racing at Ascot.
They put £1 each-way on 5 horses, so even the shrewd bettor wasn’t completely assured of all 5 truly successful.
However the dream began to turn into actuality when Midnight River gained the 1.15 at odds of 7-4.
The David Pipe-trained Remastered – backed at 9-2 – was the following to oblige, beating 5-2 favorite Demachine by 4 lengths within the subsequent race.
Simply 35 minutes later 10-1 Captain Chaos beat 12-1 shot Regal Encore by only a head to scoop the £30,000 3m Listed Betfair Swinley Chase.
Amazingly, the actual huge winner was but to return.
The punter snared Shannon Bridge at a whopping 18-1 earlier within the day, earlier than the Dan Skelton-trained eight-year-old gained the three.00 after going off at shorter odds of 12-1.
That left Dashel Drasher needing to win to finish the almighty coup.
And the way the punter should have been respiration a giant sigh of reduction after seeing huge 5-Four favorite Cyrname get pulled up within the race.
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It meant the 4-1 shot, skilled by Jeremy Scott and ridden by Matt Griffiths, had a transparent path to beat Grasp Tommytucker by two lengths.
All in all it scooped the shrewd punter a whopping £17,200 payout from their £1 each-way wager.
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