Cheltenham Festival 2025: Punter takes bookies to cleaners with huge £10k win

One Ladbrokes punter turned £9.12 into £10.2k - but was one place away from a staggering £139k - on one of the most surprising days of this year's Cheltenham Festival, the bookies can reveal.

On Wednesday morning, the plucky online punter placed an 8p each-way Heinz* on six of the seven races on Day Two of the festival, sensationally backing AGAINST heavy favourites such as Ballyburn in the Brown Advisory, Be Aware in the Coral Cup and Jonbon in the Queen Mother Champion Chase

Instead, the punter correctly opting for huge outsiders like Lecky Watson (18/1) and Jimmy Du Seuil (14/1).

Remarkably, five of the punter's six predictions all won - a five-fold which paid a mouth-watering 70,536/1 - meaning, with all other multiples within the ambitious bet, they took home £10,210.19, from just £9.12 staked.

But it could have been up to FOURTEEN TIMES as good for the customer in question, who was one place away from landing a full house of Wednesday winners...

Also included in the bet was Latenightpass, a 12/1 shot in the Cross Country, and heading into the last jump, the gelding led the field, only to be overtaken by 5/2 favourite, Stumptown and eventually finishing in second place, seven lengths off the pace. That place, combined with every other result on the day, meant the each way six-fold (which featured in the bet), landed at around 665/1.

Had Latenightpass have held on to win, though, the punter would've been looking at a whopping £138,919.55 in their account, from just an 8p each-way Heinz.

Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: "Correctly predicting five winners - in the same bet - during one of the most surprising Cheltenham Festivals in recent history takes some serious, serious doing, and we're sure our plucky punter will enjoy every penny of their huge Wednesday win. But while £10k from £9 is obviously not to be sniffed at, it could have been so much better for the customer in question, who was one horse - and roughly seven lengths - away from one of the bets festival bets we've ever seen..."

*(a Heinz covers 57 combinations, from doubles, trebles, four-folds, five-folds, and six-folds, multiplying the original stake by 52. An each-way bet doubles the stake again; one half of the bet covers 'to win', and the other half covers 'to place')

£0.08 each-way Heinz

• Brown Advisory - Lecky Watson - 18/1
• Coral Cup - Jimmy Du Seuil - 14/1
• Cross Country - Latenightpass - 12/1
• Queen Mother - Marine Nationale - 9/2
• Grand Annual - Jazzy Matty - 13/2
• Champion Bumper - Bambino Fever - 5/1

TOTAL STAKE - £9.12

TOTAL RETURNS - £10,210.19

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