Horse Racing Betting Tips: Eeh Bah Gum and Muthmir set to Dash to success May 31, 2019 FASTEN your seatbelts and get ready for the Investec Dash, one of the fastest races you will ever see. Epsom’s downhill five furlong track is like no other in the world and back in 2012 Stone Of Folca set a new world record when winning this race in 53.69 seconds, the quickest since electronic timing [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bye Bye Hong Kong, Hello Epsom Downs May 31, 2019 ANDREW Balding and Silvestre de Sousa have some very big fish to fry for King Power Racing this weekend, notably Bangkok in the Derby, but I expect them to be celebrating after BYE BYE HONG KONG wins the Investec Diomed Stakes. The Kingsclere-based handler has won this prize a joint record three times with Tullius, [...]
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: Politicise can get things off to a flyer for the in-form Haggas May 31, 2019 THERE hasn’t been a winning favourite of the Investec Private Banking Handicap in the last decade and I expect that to continue this afternoon. The Andrew Balding-trained Le Don De Vie and Mark Johnston’s Nayef Road are the two currently vying for favouritism and you can see why they will have their supporters. The latter [...]
En+ profit plunges after Trump’s US sanctions bite May 31, 2019 Energy provider En+'s profit and revenue plunged in its first quarter this year after the imposition of US tariffs that were only recently lifted. The aluminium and power giant saw its profit slide 38.7 per cent to $409m (£324m) in the first three months of 2019, with revenue falling 19.1 per cent to $2.8bn. Read more: US [...]
Britain breaks energy record by going coal-free for two weeks May 31, 2019 Today marks a fortnight since the UK energy industry used coal for power generation. Read more: Britain just went 10 days without burning coal for electricity It's now the longest the country has given up on coal-generated energy since the Industrial Revolution. With the introduction of the Climate Change Act in 2008, Britain had set a [...]
Training up your staff when the goal posts move May 31, 2019 Becoming a great football striker needs a lot of practice. Players spend hours upon hours perfecting their craft, ensuring that they can kick the ball at any angle and make the goal, but once you’re a great striker – how do you remain a great striker? After being in a job for several years, you [...]
Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn ally in fresh antisemitism row May 31, 2019 The Labour Party has suspended a member of its national executive committee today after a recording leaked of him blaming the Israeli embassy for recent complaints around anti-semitism. Peter Willsman, a Labour party veteran, said that a letter attacking Labour anti-semitism, signed by 68 rabbis, was "obviously organised by the Israeli embassy". Read more: Labour party [...]
HP Sauce changes iconic brown sauce label to show Big Ben covered in scaffolding May 31, 2019 HP Sauce has changed its label for the first time in 123 years to reflect the fact that Big Ben is currently draped in scaffolding. The brown sauce bottle's famous label featuring Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge will now reflect the refurbishment works that have seen Big Ben go silent since August 2017. [...]
Is wanting Rory Stewart to be the next Prime Minister just a pipe dream? May 31, 2019 The world has moved on from Bill Clinton’s infamous line 26 years ago that, though he may have experimented with marijuana in his youth, he never inhaled. Yesterday, international development secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart told Sky News that he made a “very stupid mistake” by smoking opium at a wedding in Iran [...]