12/5 Powell to steal lightning Bolt’s thunder August 15, 2008 Usain Bolt is the 11/8 market leader to win the men’s 100m as the athletics gets underway in Beijing, but I prefer the chances of former world record holder Asafa Powell at 12/5, who can usurp his fellow countryman. In the 200m, Bolt is 1/10 and is clearly the man to beat, but I am [...]
Dance the night away on course July 11, 2008 Last weekend saw a thrilling finish to the 2008 Coral-Eclipse with 14,000 people flocking to Sandown Park to attend their biggest Flat race day of the season. Racegoers were rewarded with stunning weather and a fantastic finish to the £500,000 CoralEclipse with the brilliantly ridden Mount Nelson just getting up on the line to deny [...]
Phoenix to rise to the occasion July 4, 2008 Tomorrow’s Coral-Eclipse looks an ultra competitive contest with no superstar entries like in the last two seasons, but two horses who look the type to have a very good second half of the season. Phoenix Tower is definitely the form pick with a very good second at Royal Ascot to Duke of Marmalade, while Mount [...]
Partygaming winners are the founders October 17, 2005 PartyGaming, the online poker company, reveals its hand on Friday and investors in this summer’s flotation will be able to see the cause of their losses. The company came to market on the back of rapid growth: this week it will reveal that growth has ground to a halt. Do not compare this week’s revenue [...]
Advisers in all night Refco talks October 17, 2005 Refco held a second day of weekend meetings yesterday as a group of about 50 advisers gathered in New York in an effort to salvage the disgraced group’s regulated futures brokerage arm and determine the fate of its ailing operations. The advisers had begun emergency meetings on Saturday that stretched late into the night to [...]