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- Adlington the new favourite to receive BBC honour
- SPORTS AWARDS Rebecca Adlington is the new favourite to become the BBC Sports Personality of the Year after a flood of money continued to pour in at bookmakers across the country yesterday. The 19-year-old Olympic swimmer, who won two gold medals in Beijing, is now the odds-on...
- Research articles 2008-12-09
- Adlington the new favourite to receive BBC honour
- SPORTS AWARDS Rebecca Adlington is the new favourite to become the BBC Sports Personality of the Year after a flood of money continued to pour in at bookmakers across the country yesterday. The 19-year-old Olympic swimmer, who won two gold medals in Beijing, is now the odds-on...
- Research articles 2008-12-09
- FA LAUNCH LEAGUE TWO BETS PROBE
- THE FA have launched an investigation into an unusual betting pattern on yesterday's League Two game between Accrington Stanley and Bury. Leading bookmakers William Hill and Coral suspended betting on the game. Betting exchange Betfair had pounds 281,000 of bets traded on Bury winning the local derby...
- Research articles 2008-05-04
- Really go places in Hennessy Gold Cup
- GAMBLER'S CORNER One of the consistent attractions of the jumps is the guarantee of a big race every Saturday, something that betting-shop punters and bookies much appreciate. The more that see a race, the greater the betting turnover. Today's feature is the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, a...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Solzen to star at Haydock
- Byline: By NICK ROBSON Sports Correspondent KAUTO STAR'S defeat on his seasonal reappearance raised more questions than answers and he can be taken on withMy Way De Solzen in the Betfair Chase at Haydock. The champion chaser went through last season unbeaten and even though that sequence came...
- Research articles 2007-11-23
- Injury puts Brave Inca out for the season
- By John Cobb A new benchmark will have to be found to measure the merit and, more importantly, the courage of the top hurdlers in Ireland and Britain. Brave Inca, the horse that has performed that role with remarkable consistency in recent years is out of action for...
- Research articles 2007-08-29
- Davydenko gambling probe haunts US Open
- NEW YORK AFP — Concerns over the match-fix gambling probe involving fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko haunt the US Open on the eve of the Grand Slam event. The 26-year-old Russian, a semi-finalist here 12 months ago, will begin the year's final Grand Slam event here Monday against US wild...
- Research articles 2007-08-26
- Davydenko tennis match at centre of gambling probe
- LONDON AFP — An online bookmaker has suspended payouts on a match involving Russian world number four Nikolay Davydenko because of irregular betting patterns, the company said on Friday. Davydenko pulled out with a foot injury while trailing 2-6, 6-3, 2-1 to Argentina's Martin Vassallo Arguello in the claycourt...
- Research articles 2007-08-03
- Kauto Star shines for Ruby in Cheltenham Gold Cup
- CHELTENHAM, England AFP — Kauto Star joined the jumping greats when landing Friday's Gold Cup at Cheltenham to bag his connections a one million pound (1.5m dollar) bonus. Trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Ruby Walsh the 5-4 favourite jumped to the front two fences from home and...
- Research articles 2007-03-16
- Granit Jack
- The longest-priced winner, at SP anyway, at the Festival has been Norton's Coin, hero of the 1990 Gold Cup at 100-1. But the phenomenon of online betting exchanges means super-sexy prices and tales of gambling derring-do. For instance, in last year's Supreme Novices Hurdle one punter had his [pound]20 on...
- Research articles 2007-03-13
- Wimbledon launches betting probe
- LONDON AFP — Wimbledon tennis authorities have launched an investigation after unusually large amounts of money were waged with an online betting firm on a first round match, it was reported. Huge sums of money were placed on Argentina's world number 89 Carlos Berlocq to lose his match against...
- Research articles 2006-06-28
- Tabcorp in the race for TVN.
- Byline: Colin Kruger and Lisa Murray Apr 10, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Another bidder has emerged for a holding of 25 in Australian horse racing broadcaster ThoroughVisioN TVN. Media and gaming group Publishing & Broadcasting Limited PBL...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- Tabcorp in picture to buy TVN stake and stymie PBL.
- Byline: Colin Kruger and Lisa Murray Apr 10, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Another bidder has emerged for a holding of 25 in Australian horse racing broadcaster ThoroughVisioN TVN. Media and gaming group Publishing & Broadcasting Limited PBL had offered...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- Racing: Moscow recovers after retreat
- Moscow Flyer has already defied considerable odds to win three times at the Cheltenham Festival, but none as high as were available yesterday against him winning for a fourth time in the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Wednesday. Though he is still quoted around 4-1 second favourite...
- Research articles 2006-03-11
- Britain's stars shine for Europe
- Ten British-based business people have been named among the 25 Stars of Europe by American magazine BusinessWeek. However, only five of them are actually British, showing the international nature of the UK business community. Among the more predictable names in the list are Sir Terry Leahy, chief...
- Research articles 2005-05-22
- Evening Standard, London, City Spy column.
- Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--You may be worth millions, may be identified with some of the smartest advertising of the age but you still have to do your washing. Lord Saatchi, no less, says that he, not his novelist...
- Research articles 2004-10-14
- British bookmaker raps internet gambling sites.
- By Ian Lyall, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 7--William Hill chief executive David Harding let rip at internet betting exchanges which have been vilified for their role in horse racing's latest race-fixing scandal. He slammed the...
- Research articles 2004-09-07
- Champion jockey Fallon returns to racecourse after race-fixing arrest
- LONDON AFP ? Champion jockey Kieren Fallon was set to return to the racecourse, a day after being freed on bail by British police investigating allegations of widespread corruption and race fixing. Fallon was released on bail late Wednesday after being quizzed for 12 hours by detectives probing the...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- Bet matching - one for the punters.
- Aug 22, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Edward Wray is using the power of the Internet to link gamblers across the world. He invented a way for people to bet against each other. Wray, the son of a London stockbroker, is...
- Research articles 2003-08-23
- New chief can bet on TAB spat.
- Jul 30, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) A dispute is looming over the monopoly on betting in Australia. The state totalizator agency boards TABs hold exclusive rights over betting. Their monopoly is being challenged by Betfair, a UK betting exchange. Betfair already...
- Research articles 2003-07-30
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