There have been bigger dividends it’s true, but anyone would be happy with a £239,620.00 return from a £2.00 bet.
That’s exactly what one lucky punter got after entering the Scoop6 on October 26th 2013, with the races involved being run at Newbury and Doncaster.
Piping Rock got the punter off to a good start. The 2nd favourite came in first at 3/1 from an 11 strong field, but there were much tougher races to come.
For race two there were 43,602 tickets still in the competition, and interestingly 28.97% of them had backed the winner, Thomas Hobson. This horse was second favourite to Ennistown who only got the backing of 21.67% of remaining punters, so a relatively hefty 12,632 tickets were still in with a fighting chance for race 3.
This was held at Newbury, and once again, it was the second favourite who romped home first. The horse’s name was Cubanita, but hardly anyone still in the competition fancied him. Cubanita was only the 4th most backed horse, accounting for just over 6% of remaining bets, so a huge proportion were wiped out at this point.
Not our plucky punter though. They were through to race 4 where they had backed a 16/1 long shot called Dungannon. This was a very large field of 22 runners, and only 12 of the 834 tickets still alive had backed the winner.
Only 4 of the 12 horses taking part in race 5 were covered by Scoop6 punters, so it’s incredible that 2 of them got it right by predicting Hi There would win it. This did mean that the chances of one of them winning the pot in the final race were pretty slim though.
Kingston Hill was the favourite in this race and that is who the winning punter selected. Pinzolo was the only other horse covered. Kingston Hill tracked the leaders then took the lead a furlong out and won comfortably, banking the punter almost a quarter of a million pounds.
They won this one by choosing well fancied horses most of the time, only straying to longer odds options when the field size increased. A bold tactic and one that paid off this time.