Intrepid punter comes close to scooping £6.8m
The win and bonus funds for the bet totalled over £10m ahead of races at Newbury, Newmarket and Thirsk, with the 4.00 event at the latter receiving terrestrial coverage on Channel 4 with three horses covered by potential winning tickets.
An £8 Ladbrokes customer had two of the runners, including Escape To Glory who was to go agonisingly close to being perfectly named when almost getting upsides Llanarmon Lad deep inside the final furlong of the Marion Gibson Brown Memorial Handicap.
But just as it looked like a monster £6,874,345 would be landed, the Brian Ellison-trained winner found more to score by a length and a quarter at 16-1. The same backer had the sixth-placed Justonefortheroad.
A straight £2 line punter in Ireland was responsible for the third home Capaill Liath.
A 20-1 shock from Front Page News in the first leg at Newmarket had knocked out plenty of tickets, and there were only 283 slips left after third leg with a mere 41 still standing after leg four.
The win fund will open up at £6,874,345 next Saturday, with the bonus pot standing at an all-time high of £3,824,712.
Tote representatives expect £15m to be in the pools at off time. There were 765 winners of the place fund, which returned a dividend of £1,717.40.
