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The Lost King (nearest) gets up to win a furious finish at Kempton (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nThe neck victory of The Lost King made a huge difference to the winnings from a Lucky 15 bet placed at a Ladbrokes betting shop terminal<\/p>\n
11:21, 09 Jan 2026Updated 12:51, 09 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
The Lost King (nearest) gets up to win a furious finish at Kempton (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
A Glasgow acca punter has netted a life-changing sum of money, helped by the last gasp victory of The Lost King at Kempton Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Ladbrokes customer selected four horses for a \u00a36 Lucky 15 which consisted of four single bets, six doubles, four trebles and one fourfold. The total outlay was \u00a390.<\/p>\n
The bet was placed on a betting terminal in one of the bookmaker\u2019s Glasgow shops on horses that were all running at the Kempton evening meeting. Then over a heady couple of hours each horse finished first at odds 5-1, 12-1, 9-1 and 18-1 respectively.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Dan Skelton trying \u2018not to give Willie Mullins a sniff\u2019 in British jumps trainer battle<\/a>READ MORE: Once-in-a-lifetime horse Live In The Dream\u2019s death announced in \u2018incredibly hard\u2019 farewell<\/a><\/p>\n The closest finish came in the feature 7f handicap, the second leg of the bet, in which The Lost King produced a rapid flourish to catch and pass the Oisin Murphy-ridden 13-8 favourite Popmaster to score by a neck.<\/p>\n Had The Lost King finished second the punter would have only collected \u00a39,234 when the actual return was a staggering \u00a3129,354.<\/p>\n Not one of the selections was favourite and each different jockeys and trainers. Billy Mill won by a length, The Lost King by a neck, Port Road by half a length and the final horse of the night, Sonnerie Power, breezed home at odds of 18\/1, winning by two lengths.<\/p>\n Ladbrokes spokesperson Alex Apati said: “The Lost King no doubt has a new superfan; a late surge from the 12\/1 shot has changed the life of our Scottish punter in what will likely go down as the best bet of 2026.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The neck victory of The Lost King made a huge difference to the winnings from a Lucky 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[288,21031,206128,25919,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-horse-racing","9":"tag-horses","10":"tag-kempton-park-racecourse","11":"tag-ladbrokes","12":"tag-racing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865380751606778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1_UK-Non-essential-Retailers-Reopen-To-Shoppers-As-Coronavirus-Lockdown-Eases-Further.jpg\")
The bet was placed in a Ladbrokes shop(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n