In the world of professional sport, it is generally accepted that it is wrong for sports personalities to bet on their own contests. Obviously a bet on a player to win might seem harmless enough, meaning that they have extra incentive for the team to win, but what happens if the bet is more specific? […]
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Celebrity Racehorse Owners (And How Much It Costs Them) 4k5x6f
When it comes to horse racing, even the most casual observers will know the names of some of the sport’s most respected jockeys, whether that be retired aces like AP McCoy or household names, such as Frankie Dettori. Ask people to name some trainers and they’ll almost certainly have heard of industry heavyweights, such as […]
Insider Betting: What Are the Rules When You Have Inside Information? 4a395u
It’s something of a moral conundrum, isn’t it? If you had information that you could win money from a bet with, would you use it to your advantage? Say you lived next doors to a footballer and found out from them that they’d been sold to another club, would you pop down to your bookies […]
What Happened To All Of The Dog Tracks in London? 3w3o3w
As difficult as it is to believe for some now, there was a time when greyhound racing was one of the most popular sports in England. The first course in the United Kingdom to feature an artificial hare was based on Hendon and opened its doors on the eleventh of September in 1876, though it […]
The housing market is one of trickiest to get involved in nowadays. The seemingly ever-increasing price of houses makes it incredibly difficult for young people to even dream of owning their own home unless they’re in a really well-paid job, with more and more people being forced to rent as a result. It’s not because […]
Winning the lottery is something that we all dream of. When the jackpot has rolled over to the point that it reaches double figures even those that don’t buy a ticket will allow themselves to daydream about what they’d do if they were given such an exceptional wealth. The humdrum of most people’s daily lives […]
The world of bookmaking is just like any other major business, complete with big companies that rule the roost and smaller ones that are looking for their own slice of the pie. As with any corporate world, the larger bookmakers are constantly competing with each other for your business and sometimes one of the best […]
The Female Jockeys That Give the Men a Run for Their Money 4l2l5b
At the Cheltenham Festival in 2019, Bryony Frost became the first woman ever to win a Grade 1 jump race at the meeting when she took Frodon across the finish line first in the Ryanair Chase. As a year, it matched 2018 for wins by female jockeys, with two wins for Rachael Blackmore and one […]
Pigeon Racing: Everything You Need to Know (And Then Some) 17m3i
People love being competitive. Get the right folks into a room together and they would have a wager with each other over which fly would be the first to take off from a window ledge. It’s why betting is so popular and why competitive sport will always dominate both people’s consciousness and the newspaper headlines. […]
The World’s Biggest Lottery Wins 2t2v32
Those of us that play the lottery, while away our hours dreaming of how amazing it might be to pick the winning numbers, planning what we’d do with our new found wealth. From setting up a charity fund to buying a collection of expensive cars, we each have our own dreams and fantasies. Not all […]