Punter’s £1m hope

A PUNTER from Kent is on the verge of a £1 million bookie bashing win in today’s Gold Cup after placing a series of 10p bets with William Hill, and he doesn’t even have to back the winner.

The telephone customer placed a series of extraordinary 10p each-way accumulators with Hills on Thursday on the Cheltenham races, with the final leg being Friday’s Gold Cup.

The punter has £90,550 running on to five runners in the Gold Cup and will net various amounts if they fill the places in the big race. If the punter gets two or three of his runners in the frame, he is set to smash Hills £1m limit.