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/ 26 February 2008

Horse-racing bet makes Briton birthday millionaire

A British man celebrated his 60th birthday in unexpected style at the weekend when a 50 pence () bet on the horses turned him into an instant millionaire. Fred Craggs, from Yorkshire in northern England, was not even aware of his win when he walked into a branch of the William Hill betting agency to see how he had done with his accumulator bet.