Player36 does it! Hippocrates comes home smartly under Sporting Post-sponsored Tristan Godden (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Tristan Godden rode a confident race on the Stuart Ferrie-trained Hippocrates to round off a perfect afternoon at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday for a Durban-based gentleman who selected 8 straight winners to bank the all-or-nothing prize of R780 000 in the ever popular Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge.
Finishing ahead of 11 988 other contestants, player36 became the 114th Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge jackpot winner in just over four years and his choices were particularly good considering none of the other 11 988 conetstants even got seven winners.
Despite exhaustive attempts to contact the latest big winner player36, the Sporting Post was unable to get hold of the man who found the mixed bag of 8 winners on an afternoon where the Pick 6 paid a dividend of R7149 and the Place Accumulator a healthy R2098.
Whether player36 was watching the last race or not, he would not have raised a sweat as Tristan Godden allowed the 6yo chestnut Hippocrates to lope along before squeezing him at the 250m for a convincing victory over the chasing Stevie Gee and the consistent Lou Lou The Legend. Racing can be so straightforward – the last race saddle-cloth numbers being 1,2,3!
South Africa’s most popular horseracing competition of all time, the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge reached a millennial milestone on Sunday 1 September 2024 with the 1000th renewal at Hollywoodbets Scottsville of the rewarding game of fun and excitement that has become a way of everyday life for thousands of seasoned and new generation punters.
Player36 becomes the first jackpot winner post the 1000 meeting milestone.
But, and it’s an agonisingly big but, he unfortunately did not wager a minimum of R50 on the programmatically generated bet-slip, that would have seen his payout automatically doubled to R1 560 000.
As a straight all-on, his 8 winners would also have paid approximate odds of 870 000 to 1!
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