Picture: Hollywoodbets Scottsville was the venue for the latest Punters Challenge Jackpot success
With five out of eight tote favourites scoring on the day, the final Race Coast KZN fixture for the 2025/26 season at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Wednesday ended on a high note for most players, and produced the 157th jackpot winner in the ever popular Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge competition.
Hollywood Racing and the Lucky Fish-sponsored De Kock combination won the first three races on the midweek card with the promising 2yo’s Scotts Wae Hae (Gavin Lerena), Gimme A Fireball (Sean Veale) and Sparrow Man (Gavin Lerena) all shedding their maiden tickets as well-fancied winners, to show that there is plenty to look forward to in their sophomore season, which commences on Saturday 1 August.
Summerveld trainer Yogas Govender saddled two winners in Soho Celebrity (Damyan Pillay) and Double Olympic (Athandiwe Mgudlwa), from his 3 starters on the afternoon.
But the big winner was Logan29, who banked R100 000 for finding all 8 winners on the card in the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge.
A 58 year old Physics teacher from Centurion in Pretoria, Logan29 was kicking himself for not wagering the minimum R50 on the programmatically generated betslip, which would have turned his jackpot into a R1 million payout!
“I have just been so busy, I did my selections in quite a rush. But I am happy. It’s a lovely prize and it will go a long way towards a great holiday,” added the man who labels himself an ‘enthusiast’, rather than a ‘punter’.
“I used to live in Durban and my Dad took me racing from about the age of 16. I always loved it. But we were more about enjoying the horses, the action and the competition, rather than being ‘big’ punters, as such,” he explained.
Being a Physics teacher, Logan29 doesn’t struggle with applying his mind to form study, but admitted he sweated a bit in the final race.
“Gardener’s Pride was holding on in front. But Double Olympic, I felt, was overdue. I got lucky and it panned out well. And all thanks to Hollywoodbets for a great competition,” he told the Sporting Post.
To show that the results were generally favourable, there were 180 players with 6 out of 6 winners, while 5 survived going into the final race. Logan 29 proved to be on the mark with Double Olympic.
It has been a big month for Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge players!
On Sunday 5 July lifetime racing fan Ramox Govindsamy bounced back from ‘doing his boots’ on Hollywoodbets Durban July day, to selecting the winners of the ten races on the Turffontein card.
Then on Friday 24 July, Disiree found all the winners on the Fairview eight-race card.
Sadly, both players didn’t wager the R50 minimum on the betslip, which would have added another 0 – making it R1 million – to the jackpot payout.
A special edition of the popular Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge is currently being held on the Qatar Goodwood Festival, which continues every day until Saturday.
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The Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge is available on all local and selected international racemeetings, with entries closing five minutes before the scheduled off-time of the first race.
Over R46 million has been paid out in South Africa’s most popular horse racing competition of all time.
All one needs to enter the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge is a Hollywoodbets account and to get your selections in at least five minutes before the first race on a card.
This puts you in contention to win either a share of the Must-Be-Won prize or the whole/share of the All-Or-Nothing prize.
The idea is to find as many winners on any local or selected international fixtures as possible.
Points are awarded based on finishing positions and the total number of runners in a race and the starting price of your selection if it wins.
The Must-Be-Won prize of R5 000 is shared among the top 20 players on the leaderboard at the end of each eight-race (minimum) meeting.
If you place a R50+ bet using the Bet Slip Feature, the Jackpot amount rockets to R1 million, irrespective of the number of horses carded to run, so long as at least eight races are run on the day.
On days when seven or fewer races are carded, the All Or Nothing prize will be capped at R100 000, provided you’ve taken a R50+ bet using the bet slip feature.
