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Funny Horse Names

People often say ‘what’s in a name?’ Well, when it comes to horse racing, what’s in a name is often the desire to make comentators say ridiculous words or phrases on live TV..

Case in point..

So, some genius thought to call their horse Arrrr. Here’s a list of other genuine horse names that either tongue tie or embarrass horse racing comentators!

Geespot

Maythehorsebewithu

Ha Ha Ha

Onoitsmymothernlaw

Hoof Hearted

Passing Wind

Pianist

Nosoupforyou (oh Seinfeld fame)

Mucho Macho Man (Village people!)

Flat Fleet Feet

Hoarse

Horsey McHorseFace

 

Turning £1 into £44,000 with accumulator bet

Turning £1 into £44,000 with accumulator bet  Another day, another big winning acca. A Sky Bet bet punter had the good fortune to turn just £1 into the princely sum of £44,000 . The punter opted for a 12-fold EFL football acca of ‘Both Teams to Score and No Draw’ bets. As with any bet with so many components, there was one or two ‘squeeky bum’ moments, the biggest being a Milwall 4-3 win against Leeds, where the sides were drawing 2-2 then 3-3, before a 92nd minute winner kept this this bet on track. The full bet is below:

 

Leeds 3-4 Millwall

Norwich 1-2 Sheff Utd

Bristol Rovers 3-1 Bradford

Fleetwood 1-2 Blackburn

Oxford 1-2 Bury

Plymouth 1-3 Wigan

Rochdale v Southend – POSTPONED

Coventry 3-1 Swindon

Crewe 2-3 Wycombe

Forest Green 5-2 Cambridge

Notts County 1-2 Exeter

Yeovil 1-2 Chesterfield

Woman Wins Half a Million with One Pound Bet

Woman Wins Half a Million with One Pound Bet  We’d all like to win the lottery (though maybe not the ‘someone’s knocking at the door, someone’s ringing the bell‘ one, as there are some scary faces amongst them!) or an online or offline scratch cards win, but there must be something even more satisfying at feeling that you’ve earned it. Of course there are element of luck to betting, but there can also be an aspect of skill to it, in deciding the composition of a bet and likelihood of a result. So I like to think if I ever won big with an accumulator bet, it would at least in part be down to skill!

Of course though,  even with bets,  many or perhaps even a majority of punters ultimately take a ‘throw a dart at it’ approach and just pick a selection based on a name that they like, or a team that they or someone they know is rooting for. This was pretty much the case in November last year, when a 58 year old housewife placed a £1 12 football team accumulator bet on at William Hill and every single result came in.

The bored housewife had got her son to read out the fixtures for the day and picked teams she liked the sound of. Nothing more complicated than that, but with such a number of consecutive wins the rewards were great.

According to a William Hill spokeperson, “Apparently, the lady’s husband had been doing the £1 weekend acca since he was 18, so 40 years of practice on football punting. His wife started doing the same bet about six years ago, so she certainly had lady luck on her side as her hubby has never had a win anything like that. ‘It just goes to show if you can’t beat them join them and the payout in this case is absolutely fantastic.”

 

Below is the punter’s betting slip, and the bet in its entirety:

Woman Wins Half a Million with One Pound Bet

The Acca

Huddersfield to beat West Brom: 6/4 – 1-0 victory

Bournemouth to beat Newcastle: 5/2 – 1-0 victory

Burnley to beat Southampton: 4/1 – 1-0 victory

Brighton to beat Swansea: 15/8 – 1-0 victory

Sheff Wed to beat Aston Villa: 5/2 – 2-0 victory

Barnsley to beat Birmingham: 11/8 – 2-0 victory

Bolton to beat Norwich: 11/5 – 2-1 victory

Reading to beat Derby: 16/5 – 4-2 victory

Ipswich to beat Preston: 8/5 – 3-0 victory

Burton to beat Millwall: 10/3 1-0 victory

Nottingham Forest to beat QPR: 11/10 – 4-0 victory

Sheff Utd to beat Hull: 8/11 – 4-1 victory