Punter pockets mammoth £1.5million from £50 stake in Melbourne Cup

A PUNTER had a time to retrieve aft they scooped a monster £1.6million from conscionable a £51 stake successful the Melbourne Cup.

The evident genius correctly chose the archetypal 4 location successful the unlikeliest of finishes.

Not lone did helium prime 90-1 outsider Knights Choice, ridden by erstwhile Australian The Voice contestant Robbie Dolan, to get his chemoreceptor successful front.

He besides had the Japanese runner-up Warp Speed, third-placed Okita Soushi and yet fourth-placed Zaradozi.

He indispensable person been successful bits during the closing stages of the race, particularly arsenic the archetypal 2 location were separated lone by a abbreviated head.

But the punter was unaware conscionable however overmuch currency helium had won aft the race.

A spokesperson for Ladbrokes, who took the bet, said: "The lawsuit initially thought they had won A$780,000, truthful you tin ideate their astonishment erstwhile the afloat dividend was revealed.

"They boxed Knight's Choice, Warp Speed, Okita Soushi and Zardozi and person turned their A$100 (£51) concern into A$3.2 cardinal (£1,630,530), which is already successful their Ladbrokes account.

"It's a life-changing effect and shows that thing tin hap successful the Melbourne Cup."

And this wasn't the lone tremendous payout aft the race.

Another punter took location the afloat £371,032 first-four dividend aft a £12 enigma stake connected a TAB (Australian betting company) instrumentality successful their section pub successful Bairnsdale, Victoria.

The instrumentality dished retired the saddle numbers of the archetypal 4 finishers to the fortunate lady.

There can't person been galore questions asked astir who was picking up the bill.

TAB spokesperson Nick Smart said: "It's a large communicative of a punter trying his oregon her luck connected a TAB enigma stake successful Australia's large contention astatine their section pub oregon RSL and winning big.

"Congratulations to the victor and we're definite it volition beryllium a large nighttime astatine the Bairnsdale RSL."

The European runners whitethorn person flopped Down Under - Willie Mullins' Vauban and Absurde finished 11th and 5th respectively.

And Brian Ellison's Onesmoothoperator finished down the tract successful the aforesaid cervix of the woods arsenic Harry Eustace's Sea King.

But determination was surely nary shortage of feel-good stories astatine the Flemington showpiece.

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