WELSH actor Dion Davies won over \u00a355,000 in the EuroMillions, while preparing to star in The Bet<\/em>, a play about a man who decided not to bet on a horse, costing his village thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Set in a Carmarthenshire village, the play tells of a man who agrees to place bets for friends on a 100-1 outsider in a horse race. He decides the bet would be a waste of money and doesn’t bother – but then the horse romps home a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to director Ray Thomas, the play is loosely based on the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Norton\u2019s Coin<\/a>, whose owner Syrill Griffiths lived in Nantgaredig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Those people from Nantgaredig all decided to to put money on the horse,” said Ray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Somebody in the village collected all their bets, and was going to put it on at the bookies, but decided the horse stood no chance winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “He then owed everybody one hundred times what they had initially put down so he spent years getting the money back, he even had to sell his house. Eventually he managed to pay them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The man is now back in the village, doing a lot of good work, and accepted by the local community.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n