I was trading the favourite in the 14:25 at Thurl last night. I'd gone in pretty hard and was pleased to have "green-up" for a nice little result.

About 5 minutes before the jump the market was suspended. Thought there must have been a scratching and things would come back to normal in a few seconds. Nup, the market remained suspended until the jump. My monitor flickered and I couldn't believe that the lay side of my trade had been voided leaving me with a very large bet on the favourite. No chance to cover myself. It was too late. They were off!! , and double !!!!

What do I do?

I went from What the ...., to this must be a mistake, to what's the In Play phone number, to come on you good thing, to no no no, to YESSSSSS as the fav fought back after being headed 100 from home for a very brave win. I had literally been sitting with my head in my hands peeking at the monitor through the cracks in my fingers.

"This won't work in my favour" I said to myself. Seemed to take ages for the market to be settled but when it was I'd won the biggest win bet I've placed for quite a few years. And it was all a horrible mistake.

I checked my e-mail and the following was in it:

The runner, Midnight Gift was erroneously removed as a non-runner from the race Thurl 8th Mar, 14:25 2m4f Nov Hrd . It has now been reinstated. Our policy in these circumstances is to:
reinstate previously matched bets on Midnight Gift
readjust matched bets that were adjusted by the removed runners reduction factor
void bets matched since the non-runner (only applies if a reduction factor was applied)
One or more of your bets may have been affected by these changes. Please accept our apologies for the error.

APOLOGIES FOR THE ERROR!!!!!!!!

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Pixie

"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash