Bookies sweating as punters trigger massive gamble on horse with ‘huge appeal' for £1.25million York race
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NERVY bookies are fearing a massive gamble on a horse with 'huge appeal' will leave them staring into a financial blackhole at York next week.
The price has completely collapsed on Japanese raider Danon Decile in the £1.25million Juddmonte International Stakes.
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Available at 16-1 with Paddy Power, he is been supported into 10-3 as punters take advantage of generous each-way terms.
You can still get three places if you back a horse now - but bookies think the feature race could cut to two on the day if we get fewer than eight runners.
As it stands it looks like Daryz, Anmaat, Whirl, Minnie Hauk, White Birch and dual Derby hero Lambourn are highly unlikely to run.
All either have other arrangements or, in the case of Anmaat and White Birch, will surely have the ground against them.
Danon Decile has arrived in Britain in peak physical fitness and stretched his legs on the Newmarket gallops last weekend.
He has gone from 100-1 no-hoper to Group 1 superstar in a little over a year.
Danon Decile was available at triple figure odds ahead of his Japanese Derby win in May 2024.
He didn't win again until January this year but backed that victory up when he beat King George winner Calandagan in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic in April.
Victory there was worth just shy of £3m so he'll be taking a pay cut if he wins the Juddmonte, with its first-place prize of £708,875.
But at least he could repay his faithful backers who have punted him off the boards for next Wednesday's contest.
Paddy Power's Paul Binfield said: "The Japanese raider is by far our worst result in York's marquee event and is now only marginally above 3-1 having opened at 16s.
"Punters have really latched on to the four-year-old, partly due to the fact that he was too powerful for subsequent King George hero Calandagan in the Dubai Sheema Classic.
"But also because he has made huge each-way appeal in an ante post market that is currently three places on offer although there is every chance the race will cut up significantly and less than eight take part reducing the places to two.
"He's probably close to the bottom of his price now and provided Delacroix and Ombudsman also take part, we look set for an absolute blockbuster on the Knavesmire."
Juddmonte International odds via Paddy Power
11-8 Delacroix
2-1 Ombudsman
10-3 Danon Decile
7-1 See The Fire
12-1 Daryz
14-1 Anmaat
20-1 Whirl
33-1 Minnie Hauk
40-1 White Birch
50-1 Lambourn, Henri Matisse
66-1 Bedtime Story
100-1 Nahrann
150-1 Expanded
250-1 Continuous
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