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What is the biggest bet you have seen with your own eyes placed
What is the biggest bet you have seen with your own eyes placed
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you must have had a nibble prior to the 'failure'. none of us had. in fact if i hadnt stood up and shouted it out i doubt theyd have noticed
ex gratia in the place, hence me being voided. although that will be peanuts compared to the 23mill at 28 |
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How much did they give you, Elise?
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Did hear months later they paid out a to a few punters On Voller La V that took Betfair Sp. or had place before the off......but that was peanuts compared to what some of us had on inrunning
 There was still plenty liquidity available as its crossed the winning line which shocked me.....The Hoovers must of been Full already. |
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they thought it was too good to be true, thats why there were millions still available when it had won. missing weight cloth or something. how else to explain 23 m at 28 about a 13/8 shot?
also why i place laid it |
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that's the thing that was odd, i didn't bet vlv other than at the anomaly price
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Mourad was 4/5 Fav and Voller la V 2nd Fav at 13/8....you see the 2nd jolly at 28/1 and cruising.... if you can not spot the value then you never will, regardless whether it wins or not.
Ironically she bolted up too. |
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Brighton pro punter and well known owner Ashley Carr had several of his horses with Brian Ellison.
One was named Stakis Casino Boy. Ashley and some of his mates flew up to Scotland from Gatwick to watch it run at Musselburgh (and I had check full details via R.P website} it was 7 Jan 1998 and it was a hurdle race and the jockey was E.Callaghan. The plan was to attempt to back the horse for £100k but in the end his mates were not needed to rush round the ring all attempting get money on at the same time as the late (and great) Freddie Williams stood the whole bet himself. Many in Brighton knew about this and I remember listening to the race an a Ladds shop in Worthing. the commentary went a bit like this 'there are coming into the straight and 3 have a chance but Stakis Casino Boy seems to be cruising and is going clear' duly winning by 7 l @6/4. The sun newspaper reported next day as the largest ever cash bet on a Scottish racecourse. |
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Betting wise it was a guy walking into my local bookies and backing a horse called something like Fergie Forster in ordinary national hunt race in the late 80's I think. He pulled out about 4k in cash and the bookie had to phone it through. A few of us managed to get the name of the horse and followed, I had £20 on it
 . It won at 9/4 and the guy spent most of time looking at the wall (I think it might still have been Extel commentary). 13k returns was a lot of money in those days.However the biggest bet I ever saw was when my mate purchased the Fujitsu franchise for air conditioning units in the South East in the early 80's (Fujitsu where the first company to produce the compact individual units). He paid £100k for a 10 year franchise and built up a company and sold within 10 years for over a million. It was a bet because he knew feck all about air conditioning apart from somebody working for one of the corporate giants telling him it was the future of air conditioning down the pub one night. |
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Good post storm reminding us that a gamble is in many different forms , my missus doesn't even think the lottery is gambling
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private pension the biggest gamble we all/many of us take
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i had 5k cash in gus carter shop in howdon 2003 on six perfections in the 1000 guineas @4/5..got trapped in or would have pissed in..removed the safe that night so got my dollar back and a bit more..happy daze.
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18 grand win when i worked in ladcrooks dublin during the celtic tiger days, won by a short head came in and collected no tip nada
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Scruffy fella came in a York betting shop just before the 2005 Wimbledon Final. He’d written a slip for Federer to beat Roddick, 42k at 1/7.
Thought it was a wind up but showed me the contents of a carrier bag and it was all there. Phoned it through and the bet was accepted. Fella came back late afternoon and I scrambled the 6k together. Different times, eh. |
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Travelled with driver to York August 1991 for Gimcrack. Friend had £50k cash in briefcase to place on Dilum...recall 2/5 but shows 4/7 on result. Also recall ground may have been on slower side but recorded as good. I asked a Ladbrokes rails guy I knew and he said yes he would take the £50k....friend bottled it completely and could not hand the cash over...Dilum trailed in
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Anybody on here working in a call centre will certainly remember the guy who started with a few grand at silly prices and re-invested over a string of long odds on events across every sport and even special events like big brother evictions , on site when he had £470k approx on Federer 1/20 to win overnight in Miami , lost.
Anyone remembering him without mentioning any names the clue is Harley Street. |
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Dr foster?
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You got 50% right
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Only other five figure bet I ever took was in the 2002 World Cup, England v Nigeria. Had opened the shop v.early as it was a 7am kick off (from memeory). Ten minutes to K/O, fella came in for an Ev 10k England which HO laid. Finished 0-0
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Gordon Brown selling the gold off ,lost!
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sell gold at £1000 an ounce
spend the money on booze and birds sell gold at £500 an ounce invest it wisely its not the price you sell something at but what you do with it or what it can for you at the time you sell it |
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eye wonce scene seaside do a $400 on a 4/5 and a $20 s/fc
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Was in the Centaur in Cheltenham about 2 hours before first race Cheltenham 2012 chatting to a mate who was a settler, place was pretty empty given it was so early on.
Mysterious fella sidles up to the counter with briefcase full of readies, wanted 15k e/w Trifolium in Supreme 12/1 and they laid it. SP 15/2 think it just scrambled home for 3rd |