Tristan Godden rode a confident race on the Stuart Ferrie-trained Hippocrates to round off a perfect afternoon at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday for a Durban-based gentleman who selected 8 straight winners to bank the all-or-nothing prize of R780 000 in the ever popular Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge.
Finishing ahead of 11 988 other contestants, player36 became the 114th Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge jackpot winner in just over four years.
Player36 does it! Hippocrates comes home smartly under Sporting Post-sponsored Tristan Godden (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Despite exhaustive attempts to contact the latest big winner player36, the Sporting Post was unable to get hold of the man who found the mixed bag of 8 winners on an afternoon where the Pick 6 paid a dividend of R7149 and the Place Accumulator a healthy R2098.
Whether player36 was watching the last race or not, he would not have raised a sweat as Tristan Godden allowed the 6yo chestnut Hippocrates to lope along before squeezing him at the 250m for a convincing victory over the chasing Stevie Gee and the consistent Lou Lou The Legend. Racing can be so straightforward – the last race saddle-cloth numbers being 1,2,3!
South Africa’s most popular horseracing competition of all time, the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge reached a millennial milestone on Sunday 1 September 2024 with the 1000th renewal at Hollywoodbets Scottsville of the rewarding game of fun and excitement that has become a way of everyday life for thousands of seasoned and new generation punters.
Player36 becomes the first jackpot winner post the 1000 meeting milestone.
But, and it’s an agonisingly big but, he unfortunately did not wager a minimum of R50 on the programmatically generated bet-slip, that would have seen his payout automatically doubled to R1 560 000.
As a straight all-on, his 8 winners would also have paid approximate odds of 870 000 to 1!
Over 8,4 million free entries by over a million players have started local racedays, and Hong Kong and Singapore fixtures, in the hope of finding all the winners on the card in a dream quest to win the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge all-or-nothing jackpot.
And it’s key to the free-to-play Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge, beyond finding the winners, to double your payout prospects by wagering a minimum R50 on the programmatically generated betslip.
For local racemeetings, the value of the all-or-nothing jackpot prize is determined by the number of runners multiplied by R10 000, for all venues.
For example, if there are 100 carded runners and 3 scratchings, then the all-or-nothing prize will be based on the net 97 runners at R10 000 each, giving a value of R970 000 as the prize. If you wager a minimum of R50 on the betslip, your payout doubles to R1 940 000.
For Hong Kong and Singapore race-meetings, the jackpot prize is calculated on the number of races carded.
With 8 or 9 races carded and completed, the jackpot is R125 000 (or R250 000 with a betslip minimum of R50) or with 10 or more races carded and completed, R250 000 (or R500 000 with a betslip minimum of R50).
Over and above the premier aim of finding all the winners, daily prize money of R5 000 for each of the scheduled race meetings will be shared by the top 20 players on the points leaderboard at the end of the day.
These payouts are also doubled if the minimum R50 wager on the bet slip is taken!
The Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge is very easy to understand and to play.
All one needs is a Hollywoodbets account and the choice is yours to either select one horse in each of the races at the designated race-meeting, or opt to make use of one of the ‘quick-pick’ options and take a chance on the universe!
Players receive points depending on where their selection finishes in a race, and how many actual runners there are in a race.
Taking the example of a twelve-horse race, the winner will receive 12 points, second earns 11 points, third 10 points, all the way down to last position with 1 point. In a seven-horse race, the winner will receive 7 points, the runner-up will receive 6 points, and so on.
Bonus points are awarded for winning selections, where the Hollywoodbets Starting Price (SP) for that horse will be added to the points awarded. If the winning horse’s SP is 4/1 for example, then an additional 5 points (4 + 1) will be added to the points earned. In the mentioned twelve-horse race example the winning selection, if starting at 4-1, would have 17 points awarded (12 plus 5 bonus points).
It’s fun to follow your progress on the log throughout the race-meeting by visiting the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge website.
Don’t leave your entry late – the gates close five minutes before the scheduled off of the first race in all centres.
Have a look at the new Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge website, and have some side fun by forming a league to compete amongst your friends, work colleagues, or family!
The Vaal racemeeting on Thursday is your next chance to win big – the first is off at 12h30.
