Punter turns £2 bet into nearly £190,000 after including 100-1 winner in acca

A punter has stunned the bookies by turning a £2 bet into almost £190,000 by including a 100-1 winner in his selections.

The William Hill customer enjoyed the amazing run of luck at Chelmsford’s eight-race fixture on Thursday evening. His picks included Royal Praise, sent off at a three-figure price after finishing last of 12 on its previous start with Hollie Doyle riding.

There was also another Ed Dunlop-trained horse involved, 18-1 shot Philos. Owned by the Newmarket trainer, Teofilo’s son was another to bounce back to form on the all-weather, having trailed by 16 lengths at Yarmouth.

Both horses scored by less than a length, but there was even better to come with two Charlie Johnston performers.

Billy Loughnane drove Candle Of Dubai (5-1) clear of her Bet Boost At bet365 EBF “Confined” Fillies’ Novice Stakes opposition by two-and-a-half lengths.

Then it was over to 4-1 stablemate Wadacre Gomez, a runner in the Leading Environmental Solutions Handicap. Another for Loughnane, the prominent racer started brightly and managed to fend off Lord Protector by half-a-length.

The punter, whose £2 Lucky 15 consisted of four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator costing £30 in total, scooped £188,493.80.

The duty manager at the William Hill shop in Wakefield said: “He’s a regular and a really nice bloke. He usually has £1 Lucky 15s but for whatever reason he chose to double his stake.

“We had a big payout not so long ago, but £188,000 is definitely a record for us. Someone else was working on Thursday and he rang me up because he’d seen that the liability had come up (on the screen). When he actually looked into the bet, the last horse was just crossing the line, and that was it.”

William Hill’s spokesman Lee Phelps, added: “We witnessed a historic bet in one of our Wakefield shops on Thursday night, with one punter scooping close to £190,000 after a landing a sensational winning Lucky 15 bet.

“It’s rare to see a 100-1 winner, and it’s even rarer to see it land as part of a mammoth Lucky 15, so this has to go down as one of the best small-stake bets we’ve seen in recent years.”

The punter’s winning picks

Philos 18-1 (6.15 Chelmsford)

Royal Praise 100-1 (6.45 Chelmsford)

Candle Of Dubai 5-1 (7.15 Chelmsford)

Wadacre Gomez 4-1 (7.45 Chelmsford)