{"id":119010,"date":"2025-11-05T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:06:09","slug":"first-4-hit-delivers-once-a-year-punter-with-350000-return-on-the-melbourne-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119010\/","title":{"rendered":"First 4 hit delivers once-a-year punter with $350,000 return on the Melbourne Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A once-a-year punter has pulled off the bet of a lifetime, turning $2 into a couple of hundred thousand after correctly picking the first four of the Melbourne Cup \u2013 in order.<\/p>\n<p>The first four paid $176,561.60 on the NZ TAB with the $2 dividend delivering a massive return of $351,121.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.punters.com.au\/melbourne-cup\/melbourne-cup-results\/\" style=\"color: #4bb748;\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Cup 2025 Results and Replay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam Moncur, the Chief Financial Officer for Entain Australia and New Zealand, says the punter&#8217;s only recent bets were on each of the Melbourne Cups from the last few years.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HALF YOURS WINS THE MELBOURNE CUP! \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZtNSO9Z4x\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dZtNSO9Z4x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 At The Races (@AtTheRaces) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtTheRaces\/status\/1985559587399798841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a classic Melbourne Cup fan who has a flutter once a year and spends somewhere between $20 to $40 on a few bets,&#8221; Moncur said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, they put on a quinella, a couple of trifectas and an each-way bet, and have quite brilliantly put the first four horses in exact order on their First4 ticket for double the total First4 dividend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few other TAB NZ customers turned a small outlay into a massive result with one collecting close to $90,000 off a $12 bet.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.punters.com.au\/melbourne-cup\/melbourne-cup-results\/past-winners\/\" style=\"color: #4bb748;\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Cup \u2013 Past Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Melbourne Cup continues to have that allure year after year, and that shows with the figures from this year&#8217;s Cup,&#8221; Moncur said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a bit of support for the winner Half Yours off the back of his Caulfield Cup win, and some TAB punters were astute \u2013 or lucky \u2013 enough to get a slice of the $176,561 First4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the beauty of such a big field in the great race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NOTABLE WINS<\/p>\n<p>$5 Percentage First4 \u2013 returned $54,729<\/p>\n<p>$1 Percentage First4 \u2013 returned $12,358<\/p>\n<p>$1 Percentage First4 \u2013 returned $10,593<\/p>\n<p>$12 Percentage First4 \u2013 returned $88,269<\/p>\n<p>$6 Percentage First4 \u2013 returned $44,134<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A once-a-year punter has pulled off the bet of a lifetime, turning $2 into a couple of hundred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-119010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}