ONE Cheltenham punter has woken up £55,000 richer after cleaning out the bookies with an amazing £5 bet – which included just one winner.
The Tote bookies literally ran out of money in their till after the bettor smashed their popular Placepot bet to bits on Monday.
He picked a horse to place in the first six races and watched in shock as they all came in.
The biggest surprise was 66-1 Burdett Road in the Champion Hurdle.
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The rank outsider scooted home behind 25-1 winner Golden Ace after odds-on fav Constitution Hill fell and State Man, who was ten lengths clear and cruising, crashed out at the last.
His bet included only one winner, which was Jango Baie’s incredible last-to-first victory in the Arkle.
Jockey Nico de Boinville admitted he had all but given up as he struggled in last, hitting 300-1 on the in-running markets.
But after odds-on fav Majborough blundered and L’Eau Du Sud ran out of gas, Nicky Henderson’s Jango Baie charged up the hill to win.
The final leg of the Placepot landed when Tom Dascombe’s Hot Fuss finished fourth in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap.
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The Placepot is a bet where you pick a horse to finish in the places in the first six races.
They don’t have to win and, if the favourites go crashing out as they did in the Champion Hurdle, the dividend from the pool money skyrockets.
With yesterday’s results, if you put a quid in the Placepot and won you would have netted £11,050.70.
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On Tote.co.uk, one customer landed £22,101.40 from a £24 bet with another taking home £17,681.12 from a £12.80 stake.
The winners were an anomoly on day one though, with the bookies having the last laugh after they were spared a £50million payout.
The layers even priced up the 7-1 four-fold, which included Kopek Des Bordes, Majborough, Lossiemouth and Constitution Hill as the ‘bloodbath’.
But they were saved when Majborough failed to win the Arkle – and in dreamland when Golden Ace bagged the Champion Hurdle.
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