And, just for curiosity's sake, two pieces of statistics on big payouts:
1. In Sept 1996, jockey Frankie Dettori rode seven straight winners at the Ascot horse races, pretty good considering he did only seven horses on that occasion. Bookmakers had offered odds of 25,000-1 on him pulling this off. They woke up the morning after 40 million pounds poorer.
2. A Scottish football punter put 10 pence on a 15-game accumulator at a local Coral bookie joint in Wiltshire. (In an accumulator, to win the bet, every game's result - win, lose or draw - must match the prediction. Get one wrong and it's all off, no part-payments.) The accumulator's odds were fixed at 1,630,000-1. The Scotsman won the lot.
Wonder how much the bookies lost on the Aussie Test stinker?
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Date: 2005-06-23 04:51 am (UTC)1. In Sept 1996, jockey Frankie Dettori rode seven straight winners at the Ascot horse races, pretty good considering he did only seven horses on that occasion. Bookmakers had offered odds of 25,000-1 on him pulling this off. They woke up the morning after 40 million pounds poorer.
2. A Scottish football punter put 10 pence on a 15-game accumulator at a local Coral bookie joint in Wiltshire. (In an accumulator, to win the bet, every game's result - win, lose or draw - must match the prediction. Get one wrong and it's all off, no part-payments.) The accumulator's odds were fixed at 1,630,000-1. The Scotsman won the lot.
Wonder how much the bookies lost on the Aussie Test stinker?
g.