Weekend's Big Winning Bets 02.02.26

The Dublin Racing Festival is always one of the highlights of the sporting calendar and there was a flurry of betting action on Sunday as Majborough won the Dublin Chase in superb style and Brighterdaysahead won the Irish Champion Hurdle. Attention now turns to Cheltenham next month.

There were also plenty of big betting events in football, darts, snooker, and cricket this weekend and we have reviewed the action to pick out three big winning bets.

PAKISTAN v AUSTRALIA T20 – PAK/AUS SUPREMACY (SETTLED AT -111)

The weekend’s cricket saw England take an unassailable 2-0 series lead over Sri Lanka as Tom Banton and Harry Brook propelled England to victory in Pallekele. Things, however, were not so good for their old rivals Australia, who crashed to a record T20 defeat as they suffered a 3-0 series loss against Pakistan.

Despite losing by 90 runs on Saturday against the same opponents, Australia were favoured on our Supremacy spread betting market at 15-23 before play began in Lahore on Sunday.

The hosts won the toss and chose to bat and with Babar Azam and Saim Ayub scoring half-centuries, they posted a decent score of 207-6 for the Aussies to chase down. However, the tourists never got going, with Mohammed Nawaz taking a career-best 5-18 as the tourists crashed to 96 all out.

A defeat by 111 runs was the worst suffered by Australia in this format, but Supremacy sellers who saw the market settle at -111 having traded at 15-23 will have been overjoyed with a win of 126x their stake.

DUNDEE UNITED v HEARTS – SHIRTS x BOOKINGS (SETTLED AT 9990)

Phil Collins may have sung Another Day In Paradise, but for Hearts fans, it was just another day in Tannadice as they won their third successive game away at Dundee United on Saturday.

Following Rangers’ draw with Hibs yesterday, Hearts are now 6/4 in our Scottish Premiership odds, narrowly behind 7/5 favourites Celtic. Saturday’s victory over Dundee United was a memorable one, with the hosts seeing Amar Fatah and Pan Camara sent off as the Edinburgh outfit won 3-0 in Tayside.

Two red cards helped booking points settle at 90 and with three goals scored, buyers on Shirts x Bookings were on two a good thing, but they were helped by Alexandros Kyziridis (Hearts’ number 89) scoring a penalty. With shirt numbers settling at 111, Shirts x Bookings made up at 9990, with pre-match buyers at 2600-2900 winning 7090x their stake.

LADBROKES NOVICE CHASE – FINAL DEMAND 50-25-10 (SETTLED AT 9.5)

The Dublin Racing Festival is one of the highlights of the racing year and although Saturday was washed out and postponed until today (Monday), Sunday’s card was able to go ahead as planned.

The second race of the festival was therefore the Novice Chase and punters saw the first big shock of the meeting as Final Demand could only finish third in the four-runner, Grade 1 clash.

Backed into 36-39 favourite on our Race Index spread, Mark Walsh’s mount made several mistakes as he finished eight lengths behind the eventual winner Kaid D’authie. Normally, a third place finish would earn gen points on the spread, but the late withdrawal of Rushmount saw the payouts reduce to 47.6-23.8-9.5 rather than 50-25-10.

Regardless, it was a good afternoon for sellers who had opposed the favourite at 36-39 as they landed a win of 26.5x their stake.