Horse Racing Betting Tips: Dettori can strike in the Duke of Cambridge with Rawdaa June 18, 2019 WITHOUT sounding like a broken record, the amount of rain that falls overnight will have a huge impact on all of this afternoon’s races, but arguably none more so than the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (4.20pm). The mile contest for fillies and mares is packed full of decent ground performers with only a handful who [...]
Person dies after being hit by Victoria Line train July 5, 2019 The Victoria Line is part suspended with severe delays this morning, causing severe disruption during rush hour after a person died after being hit by a train. Transport for London (TfL) warned commuters there was no service between Walthamstow Central and Seven Sisters while emergency services attended the incident. Severe delays hit the rest of [...]
The future of TV: Is it just the walking dead? May 24, 2019 In 2014, Netflix CEO & Founder, Reed Hasting, prophesied that “linear” – or traditional broadcast – TV would be dead within 15 years. As the company has grown, so too has the belief that his prediction will come true. However, while the future of broadcast television looks very different, we don’t think TV is [...]
Theresa May officially resigns as Tory leadership contest begins June 7, 2019 Theresa May has officially resigned as leader of the Conservative party paving the way for the leadership contest to begin on Monday. May will remain ‘acting leader’ of the party and Prime Minister until her successor is elected on 22 July. Read more: Theresa May resigns – what happens next? The Tory backbench 1922 committee [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Jubiloso set for Atalanta Stakes glory following unlucky run August 29, 2019 THERE isn’t a track in the country that serves up more hard-luck stories than Goodwood and that was again evident at their flagship meeting earlier this month. Plenty are denied daylight at crucial moments and when the gaps eventually open, the race is normally all but over. That was exactly what happened to the Sir [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Nerium will send punters into delirium in Princess Elizabeth May 31, 2019 THERE was a sense of what might have been for those punters who backed ANNA NERIUM in last year’s Princess Elizabeth Stakes. Richard Hannon’s four-year-old was drawn wide and forced to sit out the back for the majority of the race, only really getting going when the eventual winner Wilamina was away and gone. She [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ocean’s odds of turning the tide on Enable are tempting July 25, 2019 EVEN though the scorching temperatures of the last few days are set to give way to rain tomorrow, it may not be enough to cool the hottest jockey on the planet at the moment. Frankie Dettori’s victory aboard Star Catcher in last weekend’s Irish Oaks was his eighth Group One winner in less than two [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Maqsad can serve it up to Hermosa in Nassau Stakes July 31, 2019 THERE isn’t a race I have been looking forward to more all week than this afternoon’s Qatar Nassau Stakes (3.35pm). When the entries first came out my eyes were immediately drawn to dual 1000 Guineas winner HERMOSA who finally steps up to the trip she has seemingly been crying out for. The daughter of Galileo [...]
Theresa May steps down today: What happens next? June 7, 2019 Theresa May will officially step down as leader of the Conservative party today as the race to be her successor intensifies. May, who announced her resignation two weeks ago in an emotional speech outside 10 Downing Street, will remain Prime Minister until a new leader is announced next month. What happens next? Eleven Tory MPs [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: No Magical return for Enable in the Eclipse July 4, 2019 SANDOWN is the stage for the clash of the generations tomorrow afternoon when the three-year-old Classic horses take on their elders for the first time in the Coral-Eclipse (3.35pm). This historic event, which was established in 1886, is the longest running Group race sponsorship in the world after Coral first put their name to it [...]