There’s nothing that can compare with the feeling of hitting a double that is daily choose six or other big accumulator at the race track, specially when that final horse comes in to complete your once-in-a-lifetime payday. But while there has been some epic wins during the period of horse racing history, few compare to your story that played out this week in britain as four horses linked to famous gambler Barney Curley pulled down shocking victories that could have cost bookmakers millions.

Long Odds on Four Horses

The story started on Tuesday evening, as odds began showing up for a number of Wednesday’s events. There have been four horses in all, each coming off a long layoff to race at fairly long odds. Horses Eye of this Tiger and Indus Valley were both longshots that are 20-1 while Seven Summits and Low Key were more reasonably priced at 7-1. in almost any instance, a $1 accumulator bet on all four horses to win might have acquired a bettor around $13,000 at Bet365, if the wagers came in at just the proper time when all four races were on the board while the chances were as favorable as feasible.

Estimates of so how money that is much lost by bookmakers through the four unlikely winners varied significantly. One spokesman for Paddy energy said that the industry-wide hit could happen because great as £15 million ($24.9 million), though others stated a far more likely figure was in the number of £2 million ($3.3 million).

Some bookmakers, such as Ladbrokes, avoided the largest losses by only odds that are posting in your day, though many bettors picked up in the connected horses even while the chances started to fall.

‘We dodged the majority of the morning that is early, but you cannot stop moving trains and we got caught up in some of it since the day panned out,’ said Ladbrokes head of consumer PR David Williams. ‘Our decision not to price the Kempton events up until as late as feasible helped protect us from the worst from it and we undoubtedly weren’t confronted with any of the business that is overnight most of the fancy prices were snapped up.’

Unlikely Winner

Bookmakers begun to become suspicious as the odds on all four horses dropped in morning betting. By the time Eye of the Tiger ran at Lingfield, the horse had been bet all the way down to a straight money favorite despite the fact that he hadn’t run for 481 times, and had failed to win in any of their previous four races.

Sure enough, Eye of the Tiger won his race. When stewards at the track launched an inquiry into the winner, these were told that the horse was now being trained by Dan Donovan, and had previously been trained by Curley himself. The horse had apparently been injured several times, but came in to the race healthy, with Donovan calling him ‘a genuine horse.’

Soon thereafter, Seven Summits would win their competition at Catterick by a length . 5. At race time, he had been bet down to a 9-4 favorite, though that has been partially because another favorite was in fact scratched through the race. Seven Summits was also previously trained by Curley.

The third horse, Indus Valley, was another Donovan-trained runner who was racing for the first time in nearly two years. A 4-6 favorite by the race, Indus Valley pulled off a tough win.

‘He has constantly shown ability but we were lucky the second just turned it in,’ Donovan stated.

Finally, Low Key was set to race at Kempton, and had relocated from a 7-1 shot to a 7-4 favorite. Although his last battle saw him finish 7^th of seven horses, Low Key pulled off a win, with trainer John Butler attributing it to the horse being gelded and a drop that is significant course compared to previous events.

Barney Curley has been a legendary trainer and gambler for years, though he has largely stayed out of the general public eye. Curley whom says that he gets more of a thrill away from beating the bookmakers than from the money he wins has been finding approaches to beat bookies since at least the 1970s. An identical success that is four-horse 2010 netted Curley more than £1 million ($1.66 million).