Freak 80-1 outsider makes Royal Ascot history as biggest price winner EVER in £1million race
KHAADEM made Royal Ascot history as the biggest price winner EVER of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
The 80-1 freak outsider - the outsider of the whole field - was double the price of the next biggest winner in the £1million race's history.
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The day five feature was known as the Platinum Jubilee Stakes but has been renamed in honour of the late Queen.
Camilla was on hand to give jockey Jamie Spencer - who won on 50-1 Witch Hunter yesterday - the trophy.
Khaadem's unbelievable win, which was 139-1 on the Betfair Exchange, continued a crazy week of results at Royal Ascot.
Khaadem had not won since last July and had been found wanting in Group One company.
On his last race at Listed level - three rungs below a Group One in the racing ladder - he could only finish third.
But Spencer blazed a trail up the middle of the track on Saturday afternoon for the Charles Hills-trained seven-year-old.
Nothing could catch him and, after going five years without a Royal Ascot winner, Spencer now has two in a week.
Spencer, who rode for owner Mrs Fitri Hay, said: "I followed Frankie [Dettori] and Tom [Marquand] just like it was a cycle race and let them do the work.
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"I hoped when I pulled out I had a little bit to go on.
"It's difficult to put into words what Fitri and Jim [Hay] have been like to me for a long time.
"Winning Group Ones is hard, getting on the horses is generally the hardest part, and I'm going to enjoy it."
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