A HORSE called Phoenix Nights -- which won four Bolton punters almost £2,000 when it romped home at 66-1 last month -- has reverted to its previous poor form.
The horse -- named after Peter Kay's hit comedy series -- earned a lucky quartet from the Lord Clyde pub, in Folds Road, a payout when it tore up the form book to win a race at Newcastle.
Until then the horse had always finished at the back of the field but the triumph saw the three-year-old's odds slashed to 25-1 for a race at Epsom on Wednesday.
But Phoenix Nights, whose owner and trainer Alan Berry is a big fan of the show, could only finish seventh in a field of 15.
The Irish stallion was born in 2000, the year that Peter Kay's award-winning series first hit the nation's screens.
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