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'Dettori's Magnificent Seven cost me my house'
Independent bookmaker Gary Wiltshire reveals how Frankie Dettori's seven wins at Ascot back in 1996 cost him his house.
Dettori鈥檚 seven winners on the card that day cost bookmakers an estimated 拢40m.
"Going into the last race I was winning,鈥 Wiltshire said. 鈥淎nd on the last one, when the 拢10,000 bets were coming, to be truthful I got caught up with it all and afterwards I had to sell the lot, including the house."
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