When one punter showed complete confidence in I Am Maximus by placing a bet of £100,000 (€115,000) with an on-course bookmaker about him winning the Randox Grand National for a second time, perhaps the writing was on the wall for his Aintree rivals. Well-known pundit and personality Johnny Dineen was fronting the Fitzwilliam pitch that took the bet and told the Press Association: “It’s the biggest bet we’ve ever taken, £100,000 at 8-1. “It’s our biggest bet by a mile and we’ll have to try to trade some of it off in the ring. With Dineen having left to catch a flight home, it was left to Kieran Stokes to tell Fitzwilliam’s tale of woe. “You grew up on stories of how good trade was in betting rings and this has been a throwback to that I suppose.

Source: Irish Examiner April 11, 2026 21:11 UTC