Two punters win 'ITV 7': Accumulator was 836,549/1 at best odds

Ali Thrupp | 17:27 Saturday 16th February 2019

Choosing the wrong bookie would have seen you miss out on £375,705 off a £1 bet.

It was billed as racing’s ‘Super Saturday’ and for a couple of lucky ITV 7 punters, it was certainly that! If they put money on those selections too, it will have been completely life-changing…

Sharing the £50,000 jackpot, they managed to successfully pick the winners of the seven selected races across packed cards at Haydock, Ascot, Wincanton and Gowran Park.

However, as has become customary at Oddschecker, we again highlight the importance of backing yourself at the best prices if choosing to place your ITV 7 picks as an audacious accumulator.

With so many big priced winners this Saturday, the result is jaw-dropping.

Hold onto your hats. If the ITV 7 winners had placed just a £1 stake on a seven-fold accumulator with those selections with the wrong bookmaker, they could have missed out on an unbelievable £375,705. That’s millions if they’d stuck a tenner on it!

To put that into perspective, if you added up the winning prize money for every one of the nine races at Ascot today, you’d only reach £285,786.80. That’s about a third of the winnings from the ITV 7 accumulator – not a bad day’s punting.

The highlights from the seven selected races included an excellent performance from Calipto to beat the highly-rated Black Corton. A shock win for Sykes at Haydock bumped up the value of the acca having gone off at 11/1, while Grand Sancy was one of eight winners on the day for trainer Paul Nicholls.

The final two winners in the seven were perhaps the most impressive of the day, with Al Dancer staking his claim on the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle when storming home in the Betfair Hurdle at Ascot. Shortly afterwards at Haydock, a late charge from Robinsfirth completed the set.

Here are the seven results and odds if placing a bet at 1.30pm on Saturday with the same two bookies: