What was your best ever "coincidence bet"?

Elimay   shares the same name as my grand daughter and ran and won on her birthday 19th Jan 2020.

Only wish the price was a bit better than 4/7.

Wasnt about the money/ price but sharing a special moment as she watched the race with me.

Forty odd years ago, I spent a couple of weeks in the South of France on holiday, in a place called Puget, which before I went there I'd never heard of. When I was back at work in Brentford, I walked down to the Canal Bridge to buy a sandwich in the transport caf and as always, popped into the betting shop next door to see what was running. To my amazement, halfway down the sheet for the next race was a horse called Puget, marked up at 8/1, I had to back it and it won. After the race, Ron, the owner of the Caf came in, as he usually did and I said, look at that Ron, I've just come back from holiday from a place called Puget and look what I've just had a tenner on. "Cor phuk me, he said, is there a horse called Bognor running?" As you can imagine, we all burst out laughing and I will forget the moment.

Was watching the snooker last night and looking at today's cards,looked to see my days p/l ... it was £147. (profit).

Remember a man seriously telling me he had missed a winning yankee in the last 4 races at 1 meeting...he said templegate tipped the first one...tom pepper the 2nd....the third was the sun ratings top rated and the 4th was paper fav....i tried in vain to explain why the tipsters and fav in that order but in fell on deaf ears

A Pal of mine races Pigeons ... and he has just been round to my house

2:40 Wetherby  Royal Pigeon Racing Association Handicap

Because of this Thread - Checked for something with a name correlation ............ Nothing doing

They are NEVER there - When you go looking for them. 

I liked some horse's name so I backed it and won. I don't remember the name but basically, it meant the horse is super fast and unbeatable and so it was.

How can people lay horses with turbo in their name? Clown layers.

Back in the days of the Pools coupon my wife did Northampton, Southampton & Wolverhampton on the three draws list.

But a Hampton came up so her draws were down.

If only Baron Samedi was running yesterday would've had a bar on him.

Many years ago when I attended the meetings almost daily, I had a dilemma as the wife was away on a girls holiday in Turkey, so I was looking after our three lads who were 6/7 at the time, the August Bank holiday was upon us and I had a horse for Epsom and one for the following day at Ripon, both were ridden by Pat Eddery who was one of the few jockeys I trusted at the time to get the job done.

After thinking about the situation for all of five minutes I plumped for Epsom as we were living in Kent at the time and I didn't much fancy driving to Ripon with three voices asking "are we there yet?" or "I need to pee" every other minute, so we made our way to Epsom by train to enable me to have a few refreshments throughout the afternoon.

Although I had taken gameboys to keep them amused, on entering the stands the lads were given a free kids pack which they were much more interested in, so we found seats with easy access to the bookies and settled down, having told them not to move, I quickly got on as much as I could on National Anthem in the first at a mixture of 6/5, 11/10 and Evens,just over 1,100 in total, it was a Stoute horse and Pat had no problems steering it home. I collected my returns and sat down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon with the lads who had all opened their packs and were doing the various puzzles etc that they contained whilst tucking into the sweets picnic that we had brought with us.

We were chatting in general and one of the lads said to me "Dad, can we go to the beach like the one in the picture", I looked and the oolouring book had a scene of a boy and girl at the seaside, bucket, spades etc", I said we'll see if it is nice tomorrow when we get up.

Continued watching the racing, it was Moet & Chandon Amateur Derby Day, the standard was only average and was thinking of leaving before the last to beat the rush for the station, however the heavens opened and the place went really dark so decided to stay in the stands, looked at the racecard with no intention of having a bet until my eyes saw right at the bottom of the field a horse called "Chaweng Beach" trained by the real Richard Hannon and ridden by a very light Trotter Nicholls, bear in mind now that I have always been a very strict disciplinarian and hadn't had another bet after National Anthem but something was telling me to throw something on it because of what the lads had said.

Rifling through my pockets to see what loose notes and change I had from my various trips to the bar I had just over 40 quid in fives and pound coins, so I went to put it on and had no problem getting 25's although that was win only, I rarely backed each way anyway so it made no difference to me.

Trotter rode a peach of a race to my eyes and came home four lengths clear with me cheering much louder than I had for National Anthem, almost immediately though a stewards was called to everybody's surprise, the bookies were saying it had brushed another when making its run but all were confident it would keep it and thankfully they were all correct.

As the stands were now nearly empty I had to pack all the stuff up and take the lads with me to collect the returns, can't remember who the bookie was but Barry Dennis was next to him as he was telling the lads to make sure Dad treats you with the winnings, to which they said he is taking us to the beach tomorrow, whilst in my head I was thinking of Pat's mount at Ripon the next day.

I did the honourable thing though and took them to Margate the next day, we all had a great time, beach all day, amusements, saveloy and chips all round from Pete's Fish bar and candyfloss, honeycomb and giant dummies on the train home.

And Pat's good thing the next day, Ridge Runner for John Dunlop trailed in fifth at Evens, so I was very happy about the free packs Epsom gave to the kids....!

Driver - I expect Ron the caf owner would have backed Nigel Twiston-Davies' Knowhere last year had it still been running. And if he's still alive (Ron that is).

In other news, any forumites who have been distracted by the other, ahem, attractions of the internet instead of studying form this morning may wish to consider backing Esticky End in the 7.00 Thirsk tonight.

Didn't do it but a few years ago there was a first race double that came up, Royal Toss at Lingfield and Spunk at Sandown.

I saw this thread but thought I never back coincidence bets. But then I remembered the 1969 Oaks.

The previous night I had slept with a girl (first time) and then on the Saturday we went to the Oaks. I hadn't studied the horses but there was a horse in the big race called Sleeping Partner. I couldn't resist and thankfully, because I was running very short of money, it won.

One coincidence bet I missed was at Sedgefield. We had spent all week on Hadrians Wall on holidayand called in at Sedgefield on the way home. First race had 8 runners and I never noticed what turned out to be the winner, Roman History ! At 50/1 .....! Doh !

Undertaker you may be right with Full Toss not Royal Toss.

Yes I think both started slowly and finished well.

Quite an undertaking to leave that bet Paolo

I was looking for Canute Cummings.

Pretty sure Agnes Haddock won the scoop 6 by just picking out names of that meant something to her.

I backed Embassy to win the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket in 1997 - it reminded me of the time I stormed the Iranian Embassy in my SAS days.

Did I mention that I was in the SAS?

Btw how many strikes do you have left?