That’s
what happened to Peter Titman when he managed to back all the right
horses to race over the line first at York last weekend.
Playing
a “Lucky 31” accumulator bet, his initial winnings were £38,901
after the horses El Astronaute, Roaring Lion, Afaak, Main Desire and
Waiting for Richie all won their races on Thursday.
To make a
Lucky 31 more appealing to punters, customers playing will all
receive a fifty percent bonus if they can correctly pick five
winners. Whilst each Lucky 31 bet will essentially cost a punter £31,
Peter’s remarkable win took his eventual total to a staggering
£58,352.
His
long term betting pal didn’t make the races
On the day, Titman
also believes his
gaming
luck was possibly increased
by the fact his long term pal and betting friend Ian Carr didn’t
make the day out as he was attending a hospital appointment.
Mr
Titman who hails from Royton near Oldham in Greater Manchester spoke
to the Manchester Evening News after his astonishing win and said
that:
“I was always good at mental arithmetic and my uncle had me
checking not only his, but his mates’ betting slips. I must have
been seven or eight years of age but I could do my sums pretty well.
At primary school the teachers used to ask my puzzled parents why I
knew so much about horse racing and whether they were big gamblers,
which they weren’t”
He
went on to say that he was always top of the class in Maths at school
and had actually at one point considered going into accountancy as a
career.
Special
win
Peter
who is by his own confession a massive huge Oldham Athletic fan,
jokingly said that the win was even more special to him because the
bet was created by a Manchester United fan!
Laughing,
he commented that
“I’m an Oldham fan and we were relegated after failing to match
Rochdale’s result on the last day of the season, so taking £58,000
off a big United fan like Fred has cheered me up.”
Titman
picked
up his winnings
at the betting shop near his house and then went on to celebrate his
win in his local pub. Then there was a good meal at a local
restaurant for some of his friends.
He
intends to spend the money on a new computer and will also possibly
consider putting some of it towards getting a lovely holiday home in
Lanzarote.
He finally added
"I’m
just starting to get over our miserable stop-start FA Cup final
defeat against Chelsea when we weren’t at the races and then I hear
about this. Guess it proves you can always win big from a small stake
at Betfred, and at least a very loyal customer is in the money.”