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Stable lad Conor Murphy who has won around £1million in an accumulator bet on five of the yard's runners at the Cheltenham Festival this week. David Jones/PA Wire

Henderson hails Irish stable lad's €1.2million accumulator foresight

Newly-minted millionaire Conor Murphy is at work today ahead of the Gold Cup despite his good fortune with a €60 bet.

ANYONE WHO’S HAD a flutter this week has dreamed of hitting the big time.

Yesterday, Conor Murphy did just that.

The Irishman, a stable lad in Nicky Henderson’s yard, won £1.2million (€1.4m) on a five-horse accumulator at Cheltenham yesterday.

Today, his boss hailed the “amazing” foresight Murphy showed.  ”Everybody here is absolutely thrilled for him. It was just an amazing piece of foresight last November,” he said.

“Just the chances of all five getting to Cheltenham and all of them running in the right races, that would be long odds, particularly as with Simonsig we didn’t even know what race he would be running in until the other week.

“The chances of them getting there since last November must have been at least 100-1 and the chances of them all winning, that must have been a 1,000,000-1.”

The €60 bet which was placed, got off to a good start when Sprinter Sacre came home in Tuesday’s Arkle. Murphy then had wins from Simonsig in the Neptune Investment Novices’ Hurdle and Bobs Worth in the RSA Chase on Wednesday along with the horse he looks after Finian’s Rainbow in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

And when Riverside Theatre’s took a thrilling Ryanair Chase victory yesterday he was home and hosed.

This morning, Murphy was seen riding out at the crack of dawn for another days’ work as normal.  Jockey Andrew Tinkler, who is attached to Henderson’s yard, joked that he would have headed off on holiday rather than attending morning stables.

He tweeted: “Can’t believe that the million pound man was riding out this morning!!!! I’d be at Heathrow!!”

Check out all TheScore’s Cheltenham coverage here

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    Mute Gerry campbell
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    Mar 16th 2012, 1:30 PM

    Well done mr Murphy, enjoy ur winnings, and hold on to ur job, u obviously love it,

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    Mute John
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    Mar 16th 2012, 2:13 PM

    Great story, fair dues to him. It must have been an all ways bet (like a yankee) as opposed to a straight accumulator, interested to know?

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    Mar 16th 2012, 2:21 PM

    Fair play to him !!!

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    Mar 16th 2012, 9:50 PM

    This guy Stole McFlys almanac.

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    Mar 17th 2012, 3:29 AM

    Very good

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    Mar 16th 2012, 1:10 PM

    The actor James Nesbit owns Riverside Theatre

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    Mar 16th 2012, 1:08 PM

    I thought James Nesbitt owned Riverside Theater?

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    Mar 16th 2012, 2:03 PM

    He does, Henderson trains him

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