One punter saw their hopes of scooping £1million from a £5 bet fall at the penultimate hurdle on Thursday. The horse racing enthusiast had bet on seven horses to win their respective races over the course of this week's Cheltenham Festival.
The £5 accumulator needed all seven selections to win in order to land a whopping £1,151,851.74 return. Things were looking promising when Honeysuckle romped home in the first race of the week, the Mares' Hurdle.
And the punter certainly must have thought luck was on their side later on Tuesday when Mahler Mission fell at the last in the National Hunt Chase to allow Gaillard Du Mesnil to claim victory. On Wednesday Langer Dan obliged in the Coral Cup before Energumene took the Champion Chase and Delta Work won the Cross Country.
