How Greater Manchester pub pals landed £3MILLION in three weeks thanks to The Squirrel
A band of pub punters from Stockport landed £3million in just three weeks - with the help of a winning streak on the horses.
READ MORE:Get 50% off M.E.N. Premium membership this Black Friday for no ads, puzzles and daily digest of the latest big stories The remarkable run which included jaunts to racecourses, with several pubs being drunk dry, but also some generous donations to a children’s cancer charity, began when their Irish-trained pick Leg Spinner at 14-1 won the famous Cesarewitch race at Newmarket. They had a single ticket on it to land £1.5 million having already secured the first five winners on that day's Scoop6 card.
Syndicate member Richard Brocklebank, aka The Squirrel, tells of how the group from the Three Tunnes pub in Hazel Grove pulled off the feat against astronomical odds - estimated at 993 billion-to-one. "From more than 800,000 tickets in at the start of the bet, just 21,340 were still standing when Miss Lucifer at 20-1 won the first leg, but that also saw our chance of the win dipping to around two per cent.
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