What's the longest odds you've backed for a winner?
Some lucky punters got 100/1 on 2015 Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance.
That's decent, but what about 500/1?
Bookies on track at Warwick Farm for the running of the 1987 Warwick Stakes, now Winx Stakes, had offered the juicy price on the Craig Oldfield-trained maiden Pablo's Pulse.
With Ron Dufficy under the weather, jockey Jamie De Belin picked up the ride on the three-year-old.
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"At that time, I was doing it pretty tough, like jockeys go through your good and your bad spells," De Belin told Sporting News.
"Ron Dufficy had taken ill and I was the only one in the jockeys' room that could actually ride the weight and being the Warwick Stakes, I thought, 'that's fine, I'm happy to pick up a ride in the feature race for the day.'"
Pablo's Pulse was racing for the third time in a week and De Belin thought it best to keep it simple.
"Before we started, Craig Oldfield asked me what did I think and the horse had raced two days previously at Gosford and I just said to him, 'mate, we've got nothing on our back, it was a soft track, let's just make them chase us,'" De Belin recalled.
"We had nothing to lose, we were the extreme outsider, so that was the plan from the start.
"I was surprised when we turned for home and I was still in front.
"When I pulled the stick on him, he still kept giving.
"He just kept finding that little bit extra."
Despite giving up the lead at the top of the straight, and again halfway down, Pablo's Pulse kept fighting back against the significantly more fancied Targlish, Cool Deal and Campaign King.
"Until the numbers went up, it was still, I don't know if I've got there or not," De Belin said.
"It was the first group race that I'd won, the excitement and the adrenaline was pumping for sure.
"My friends actually came into the jockeys' room. They'd all backed the horse because I'd picked it up and they grabbed me and threw me around like I was a shuttlecock.
"To this day, it's still the highlight of my racing career and something that I'll never forget. It's amazing the amount of people now that still remember Pablo's Pulse."
Pablo's Pulse remains the equal-longest odds winner in Australian racing history, alongside a horse by the name of Antelle in 1982.
Wouldn't you know it, De Belin rode that one as well!
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