Kiwi punter s Melbourne Cup windfall
Post on: 2011-11-02 By: admin
One lucky Kiwi punter made a big bet in the Melbourne Cup and it
has paid off.
A $7000 fixed odds bet on cup winner Dunaden returned $60,000
for a punter, TAB spokesman Michael Dore says.
The punter put money on French horse Dunaden - owned by a Qatari
prince.
Dunaden only just won in a photo-finish after a tight
sprint.
Dore says yesterday's races at Flemington and Ellerslie provided
great opportunities for gamblers to have a flutter.
It may be the race that stops two nations, but the Melbourne Cup
didn't capture the imagination of New Zealand punters.
New Zealand TAB betting on the Melbourne Cup was $NZ7,947,932 -
down 9.8% on last year's record figure of $NZ8.73 million.
The continued economic recession probably didn't help, but TAB
spokesman John Mitchell said the absence of any New Zealand-trained
horses for possibly the first time since the 1940s was a bigger
"We are a patriotic bunch and we tend to back our own, and this
year there weren't any," he said.
Punters may have also been put off by the high number of
overseas runners whose form they may not have been familiar
with.
Mitchell didn't think the recession was an issue as betting on
the Rugby World Cup was high and the Cox Plate, in which New
Zealand horse Jimmy Choux ran second, was the second-best ever for
turnover.
Mitchell said TAB bookies were cheering outsider Red Cadeaux
down the straight but he was just nosed out on the line by second
favourite Dunaden, who paid $8.20
Dunaden has given France its second successive winner in the
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