The Paddy Power Gold Cup – 2:25 Cheltenham, Saturday 14th November 2015 Grade 3 Class 1 Handicap 2 miles 4 furlong 78 yards Twenty runners will line up for the annual running of The Paddy Power Gold Cup which offers a very lucrative prize to the winner in excess £91,000. With a total prize purse […]
Cheltenham Gold Cup Odds 2015
The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race run on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse in England, over a distance of 3 miles 2½ furlongs (5,331 m), and during its running there are 22 fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year during the Cheltenham Festival in March. It will soon be time for […]
Paddy Power Gold Cup looms as 2014-15 National Hunt season takes centre stage
Compare latest antepost racing odds for Cheltenham here Open Eagle proved to be an impressive winner of the November Handicap at Doncaster but that victory was the final highlight of the 2014 flat season in the UK with attention now switching to the winter national hunt calendar. Most roads usually lead to Cheltenham in March […]
Early Contenders for the Melbourne Cup
The $6.2million Melbourne Cup takes place on Tuesday 4th November with 72 horses entered. This will be whittled down to a starting line-up of 24 with the usual strong International entry competing with the home-based contingent for a place in the richest staying handicap in the world. The favourite Germany is the current favourite with Protectionist, trained […]
Racing: The York Ebor Festival
The 2014 York Ebor Festival gets under way on Wednesday 20th August and is one of the most enjoyable and entertaining meetings in the flat racing calendar. Bookmaker Betfair have already priced up the big races at York, with the highlight of the four days coming on the Saturday when the Betfred Ebor will take […]
Blog: A Lost Weekend and a Darting Disaster
I’ve had a somewhat frustrating weekend to say the least. It should have been great but instead it feels like a lost weekend. Betting is a game I’ve played for years and yet it can still make me feel like an absolute chump. I made some very silly schoolboy errors which cost me badly and […]
Blog: Make hay while the sun shines
Well it seems my first blog post about how i got into betting went down quite well, so it has encouraged me to continue to write some more stuff about my gambling exploits and that. At the moment, I’m sat in bed slightly hungover, watching the Wimbledon men’s semi-final between Novak Djokovic and the up and […]
Blog: How I got the bitten by the gambling bug
Well, here goes. I am about to try and start writing a betting blog on here. I’ve no idea how it will pan out if indeed it pans at all, this may prove to be a one off. Time will tell. However, recently I’ve not really been betting much due to other commitments, life sometimes gets […]
Racing: Angel Gabrial will appreciate two miles in Pitman’s Derby
Compare betting odds on the Northumberland Plate The Irish Derby may be the more high-profile race on the racing calendar for June 28th but general odds of 2/5 for Australia to add to his Epsom Derby victory offer little appeal to many punters. On the same day, the Northumberland Plate is staged at Newcastle and […]
Royal Ascot: Leading Light should relish Gold Cup distance
Compare latest antepost betting odds for Royal Ascot here Although the World Cup will be dominating the current sporting media coverage and betting markets, the Royal Ascot meeting commencing on Tuesday 17th June should also attract its share of attention. The current going is Good to Soft, Good in places, following 18mm rain on Saturday. The Ascot […]