An online punter betting on the Cheltenham Festival has netted a £10,200 windfall from a multiple bet and just missed out on a six figure amount.
Bookmakers have emerged with their heads above water over the first three days of the meeting with a number of odds-on favourites beaten, sparing the betting industry millions.
Yet there have been individual success stories including a Ladbrokes customer who turned a tidy profit from a small staking Heinz bet.
The firm reported that on Wednesday the plucky punter placed an 8p each-way ‘Heinz’, a six horse wager which consists of 57 bets from doubles, trebles, four-folds, five-folds, and six-folds.
The customer left out heavy favourites such as Ballyburn in the Brown Advisory, Be Aware in the Coral Cup and Jonbon in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
Instead the picks included outsiders like Lecky Watson (18-1), Jimmy Du Seuil (14-1) and Latenightpass (12-1) plus Marine Nationale (9-2), Jazzy Matty (13-2) and Bambino Fever (5-1).
Remarkably, five of the punter’s six predictions all won – a five-fold which paid a mouth-watering 70,536-1 – meaning, with all other multiples within the ambitious bet, they took home £10,210.19, from just a total of £9.12 staked.
Yet the pay out could have been up to 14 times more as the losing horse in the bet was only one place away from hitting the jackpot.
Latenightpass, a 12-1 shot in the Cross Country Chase, was leading the field approaching the final fence.
Yet he was overtaken on the run to the winning post by 5-2 favourite Stumptown and finished seven lengths back in second.
That place, combined with every other result on the day, meant the each way six-fold was landed at around 665-1.
But had Latenightpass held on to win, the punter would’ve been looking at a whopping £138,919.55 in their account.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “Correctly predicting five winners – in the same bet – during one of the most surprising Cheltenham Festivals in recent history takes some serious, serious doing, and we’re sure our plucky punter will enjoy every penny of their huge Wednesday win.”
“But while £10k from £9 is obviously not to be sniffed at, it could have been so much better for the customer in question, who was one horse – and roughly seven lengths – away from one of the best festival bets we’ve ever seen.”
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