Facts and Figures / Editor / 13 November 2007 /

Five-runner race also sees losers at [1.12], [1.61] and [1.94]...

Most eyes were on the much-maligned Ouninpohja in the five-runner Beginners' Chase at Exeter this afternoon - but it was the Betfair punter who had his sight trained on Eluvaparty who was celebrating a 999-1 in-running winner.

The 66-1 outsider of the quintet, who led up until the fourth fence and was soon detached from the field thereafter, looked to have no chance as the market leaders fought it out up front in this 2m1f contest, and traded at the maximum price of [1000].

Ouninpohja had traded at a low of [1.94] pre-race on Betfair, but it soon became clear that his first public tilt at fences wasn't going to rekindle his enthusiasm for the game. So when the 9-4 second favourite Zorro De La Vega took command up the straight, the race looked in his safe keeping and he traded at [1.12] on Betfair.

But he soon began to falter, and behind him Pseudonym was closing ominously, at which stage punters anticipated a winning charge from him and backed the 3-1 chance at [1.61] on Betfair.

However, his momentum was crucially slowed by a blunder at the second last.

And while all this was going on, the Betfair punter who had seen the potential for capitulation up ahead, and backed Eluvaparty for £2 at 999-1, was beginning to plan a celebration of his own.

Because the early leader had somehow found a second wind, and came from nowhere to take it up at the last (before which he was trading at odds-on, too) to score an unbelievable five-length victory.

Betfair spokesman Tony Calvin commented: "Small fields often make for fascinating in-running betting on our site, but I can't readily recall four horses trading at odds-on in a five-runner race and the winner being backed at the maximum price of 999-1."

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