Daily Telegraph (UK) – A married couple took almost £47,000 in cash to back every dog at a greyhound track but what they thought to be a foolproof strategy turned out to have a crucial flaw. The pair, in their 50s, were hoping to scoop a British record breaking greyhound jackpot of £101,110.39p at Sheffield’s Owlerton Stadium. They travelled hundreds of miles from the south coast of England with their stake money and what they believed to be a fail-safe plan. The unnamed punters placed £46,656 in bets to cover every possible placing of six dogs in six races, using cash they brought in a Tesco carrier bag. But the couple had not bargained on two other ticketholders backing all six winners and the jackpot being split three ways. It meant that their share of £33,703.46 left them with a net loss of around £13,000.

Well just like trying to beat the chicken at tic-tac-toe in Vegas or the Michigan 10-cent deposit scheme that Kramer and Newman tried to pull off on Mother’s Day 1995, everybody knows betting all 40,320 combinations of the Pick 6 never works at the dog track. It’s been tried 1000 times and failed every time. I mean you’d think a poor degenerate couple who drove 200 miles to bet £46,000 would know better. And talk about a bad car ride home? I have a feeling they weren’t exactly singing “Born to Run” with the top down. Anyway, it’s too bad they didn’t try this at Wonderland. They would have just sold them the track.