: At age 37, Larry King was broke with only $42 left. He bet his last dollar on a longshot filly at the track and won $8,000 , which helped reboot his career.
: He won a staggering $13 million but intentionally never claimed the ticket. The unclaimed winnings were eventually donated to charity by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
: The trio placed a massive longshot bet at a racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. Horse Betting
: In 2001, Benter's model correctly predicted the "Triple Triple" at Happy Valley—a jackpot requiring the bettor to pick the top three finishers in three specific races.
: Australian tycoon Kerry Packer once bet $4.6 million on a horse named Mahogany . The horse won, netting Packer a payout of approximately $20 million. : At age 37, Larry King was broke with only $42 left
In 2011, , a 61-year-old heating engineer, experienced what many call the ultimate stroke of luck.
: Their journey back across the border, evading both federal agents and potential killers, was later chronicled in the book The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told . The Heating Engineer’s £1.5 Million Miracle The unclaimed winnings were eventually donated to charity
One of the most legendary figures in horse racing is , a physics dropout who applied advanced mathematics to the track. Benter moved to Hong Kong and developed a computer model that analyzed over 130 variables for every horse in every race.