Paddy Power are braced for an 'absolute PASTING' on Grand National day as £150MILLION betting bonanza captures punters' attention

A £150million betting bonanza has bookmaker Paddy Power fearing an 'absolute pasting' from precocious thoroughfare punters. 

Grand National time is among the astir prestigious successful the sporting calendar and adjacent much truthful erstwhile it comes to punters looking to triumph big.

Plenty descended to Paddy Power shops connected the precocious thoroughfare to spot their bets with the in-store lone eight-places each-way connection - 1 of the astir generous offerings successful Grand National past - catching the eye.

Typically bookmakers online wage retired each-way connected the archetypal four, five, oregon adjacent six finishers.

But Paddy Power's eight-way offering is one-of-a-kind - and punters person shown an eagerness not to miss out.

'We similar giving backmost to customers wherever we tin and, with the prima shining and radical retired and astir this weekend, it was customers successful our retail property that we wanted to manus a peculiar dainty connected Grand National day,' a Paddy Power spokesperson said.

'That said, with a fewer hours to go, it's a determination we're starting to regret. Our retail squad are busier than ever with punters each rushing to backmost the favourites, knowing that adjacent if they travel location seventh oregon eighth they're connected to a winner.

'We are taking a shedload connected I Am Maximus, Iroko and Perceval Legallois - and there's seldom a retail punter who doesn't person them each way. If a mates of them travel location seventh oregon eighth, fto unsocial triumph it, we'll person got an implicit pasting.'

JP McManus-owned I Am Maximus is simply a heavily-backed favourite arsenic helium attempts to marque it back-to-back Grand National wins aft winning by 7 and a fractional lengths successful 2024.

McManus besides owns Iroko and Perceval Legallois and is seeking a grounds 4th triumph for an proprietor successful the contest.