Local Teacher misses out on big windfall

A local teacher who needs to remain anonymous for fear of being tapped by the school kids narrowly missed out in paying off his mortgage on a Saturday night bet at Kempton Park.
His day started off with £1ew on Comply or Die at 7/1 in the Grand National. Deciding that it wouldn’t cover his Saturday night out – three pints and a fish supper – he decided to re-invest it.
Picking 4 horses at the all-weather Kempton Park meeting on Saturday night, he covered them with a 50p Lucky 15 and £1 ew quad.
Standing in the bookies he watched the first horse rump home – Lough Beg at 13/2 – by more than 4 lengths in 7.50 race.
He could taste the fish supper when the second horse Jomus won the 8.20 at 9/1.
A quick calculation on the chalk board tolk him he had well over £100 running on the final two horses on his bet.
When thethird horse Commander Cave was drove home by Richard Hughes in the 8.50 at 15/2 his calculations told him that he could being dining out in Paris if the last one obliged.
At 9.20 in the last race – our teacher had well over £1000 running onto Aggbag which opened up at 14/1.
A guaranteed return of £440 already in the bag but the final horse in his bet would net him £18,000 at 14’s.
The price shortened to 12s a quick calculation on the blackboard told him the final bet could now net £16000 plus but he didn’t mind it’s usually a good omen to see the price shorten.
The race was off and he settled back to listen to the commentary.
Into the final straight and his horse was moving up on the leaders with only yards to go he was within 2 lengths of the leader.
The yells could be hearfrom Casement Park to St Pauls as he willed his horse home.
Unfortunately Aggbag finished 4th less than 1 ½ lengths behind the winner. A quick calculation tells me those 1 ½ lengths cost our unlucky punter over £15000 – that’s over £10,000 per length and his mortgage payment will have to wait another day. Needless to say hower – the cod supper – well that’s a different kettle of fish.