A construction worker has found a time capsule from 1964 featuring four old English coins and a “spooky” letter telling him to use the money for a horse-racing bet.
The note, discovered underneath a statue in Crystal Palace Park in south London, said the money had been the winnings from a bet on a horse named Santa Claus in the Epsom Derby, and that its finder should use it to bet on a horse with a name that could be “associated with ‘Santa Claus’”.
“Unbelievably, there is a horse in this year’s Derby called Christmas Day,” site manager Josh Smalls said.
Smalls, along with the mayor of Bromley, has placed a bet on Christmas Day for the Betfred Derby Day at Epsom Downs on Saturday.