Punter wins £80,000 from just £2 after backing trainer to do the impossible with 1-2-3 finish

A PLUCKY punter was celebrating to the tune of £80,000 from conscionable a £2 involvement aft selecting an intolerable impossible racing bet.

Bookmakers Coral indispensable surely beryllium wondering however connected world they could person been taken to the cleaners arsenic unsmooth arsenic they person been aft a peculiar tricast pick.

Especially fixed the contention that centred circular the stake was the wide unfastened Virgin Bet Ayr Gold Cup.

The punter - who really placed the stake successful a store successful Reading - opted for a Karl Burke grooming masterclass successful the Scottish showpiece.

To adjacent person a runner triumph the large contention would person been immoderate selection, fixed Burke hadn't registered a victor for 7 days successful the pb up to Saturday's race.

But Burke has antecedently had a 1-2 successful the race, though you're going backmost to the precocious 90's to find that.

Nevertheless, this genius punter was intelligibly an admirer of Burke's and backed his 3 runners to decorativeness successful an nonstop bid successful the feature.

Lethal Levi was picked to decorativeness archetypal nether Clifford Lee, who itself was a immense terms astatine 20/1.

They stayed connected champion of each down the adjacent side, kicking wide having nosed successful beforehand astatine the 1/2 furlong rod to triumph going distant by 3 lengths.

It was a spot much of a bunched decorativeness for the honours successful behind, with respective runners each successful with a accidental entering the closing stages.

Remarkably, Burke's different 2 runners Silky Wilkie and Korker were divided by a Short Head successful down astatine 66/1 and 40/1, respectively, and finishing conscionable nether a magnitude wide of fourth.

And that was the nonstop bid this punter heroically predicted, landing them a stunning tricast payout of £78,988.80 for their £2 stake.

On his stunning trainer performance, Karl Burke said: "That was a bully result, wasn't it?

"We did the 1-2 26 years agone when Always Alight bushed Daring Destiny and Daring Destiny had won it 4 years earlier, and to get 3 Gold Cups is fantastic.

"A fewer had tally a spot disappointingly. But we had a treble past Saturday and were unlucky not to person 4 winners and astatine slightest we've managed to triumph a large 1 today.

"This was rather singular and just play to the full team, everybody works hard and the horses are successful large shape. The play has been astonishing and I anticipation it hasn't finished yet."

On the punter's sensational win, Coral's Dave Stevens said: "We don't cognize if this Reading store punter is simply a peculiar instrumentality of Karl Burke, who trained the archetypal 3 location successful the Ayr Gold Cup, but if helium wasn't before, helium surely is now, aft scooping this fantastic windfall.

"With SPs of 20-1, 66-1 and 40-1, a tricast instrumentality of £39,494.40 for a lb would beryllium unthinkable enough, but this lawsuit had it for £2, making this a Saturday to remember."

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