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Horse racing as about the individuals and always has been. Therefore, the racing league is a novel concept in that it is a team event, comparable to the Ryder Cup in golf.

7 regional teams compete with 7 jockeys each and horses provided from trainers across the regions, over 180 trainers signed in 2024. There are six flat racing meetings over the summer with 7 races at each meeting. The 6 3yo+ handicap races at each meeting have a prize fund of £50,000 and the 2yo handicap race carries a purse of £25,000. Teams win points for their position, from 25 points for a win to 1 point for 10th place with the overall champions winning a team bonus.

• Great Yarmouth – 23/07
• Wolverhampton – 30/07
• Chepstow – 06/08
• Windsor – 13/08
• Newcastle – 20/08
• Southwell – 27/08

Horses will be over  yo with a 0-90 rating or 2yo 0-85. The team manager decides who runs for their team in what race. Each race has 14 runners with 2 from each team.

Besides being a novel concept it is also interesting from a betting perspective with a whole host of new markets and offers available that have never been seen before. Bookies will obviously be pushing this and so expect good value odds and deals if you shop around.

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The Hundred is a new 100-ball cricket tournament to be hosted over the school summer holidays in England and Wales. The new format event has eight new teams of 15 players, these were drawn in a draft in April, two players were selected from each of seven salary bands (£200k, £120k, £78.5k, £63k, £51k, £41.5k, £31k) plus a central contract England player (e.g. Ben Stokes). Each team were allowed 3 overseas players and two local icons.

The teams and venues are:

• Birmingham Phoenix (Edgbaston)
• London Spirit (Lord’s)
• Manchester Originals (Old Trafford)
• Northern Superchargers (Headingly)
• Oval Invincibles (The Oval)
• Southern Brave (The Rose Bowl)
• Trent Rockets (Trent Bridge)
• Welsh Fire (Sophia Gardens)

There will be 56 league games played in total over 5 weeks (32 men’s and 24 women’s), the league matches (each team playing 4 home and 4 away games) followed by a play-off. The top team progresses straight to the final while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams contest an eliminator, a semi-final effectively, to see who will join them.

There are several changes for The Hundred that divert from conventional cricket, such as, the removal of the traditional 6 ball over. Instead bowlers can bowl 5 or 10 balls (max 20 / game / bowler), end change after 10 balls, 25 ball power play, timeouts and more.

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With all the majors no complete for the year it is time to see who will win the race to be crowned the PGA tour champion and winning the 2026 FedEx Cup. The player with the most points after the final event on the 30th August will become the champion.

The players in the top 125 positions in the points rankings will take part in a series of three play-off events starting with St. Jude Championship in Tennessee from 13th August. The top 70 ranked players after this event will then take part in the BMW Championship in Missouri starting 20th August. Finally the remaining 30 top ranked players go through to the Tour Championship in Georgia from 27th August.

The winner will receive a $25 prize, in addition to individual prizes from each event, plus an exception for the need to qualify for the PGA tour for 5 years.

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When we think about elite summer flat racing it is easy to jump straight from Royal Ascot and Goodwood to the St Leger at Doncaster in September. Sandwiched in the middle, however, is the Ebor Festival, held at one of the most beautiful and iconic northern England racecourses in the historic city of York.

Ebor is an abbreviation of the Latin Eboracum, the early Roman name for York. The festival was established all the way back in 1843 with the Ebor Handicap, now a heritage handicap it has been run almost every year since. It takes place on the final day over 1 mile, 5 furlongs and 188 yards and carries an impressive prize fund, one of the biggest in the world for a handicap, of over £500,000.

This is a four day event however and is not just about the Ebor Handicap. There are 24 other races at the meeting, nearly half of which are group races, made up of 3 group one races, 4 group two and three group 3. Alongside these are a further 14 handicap, heritage handicap, listed and conditions races between 5 furlongs and 1 mile 6 furlongs, that will give plenty of spectacle to racegoers and viewers alike.

With the flat season well underway and the horses entering into the peak season condition this meeting is very much loved by punters and the betting companies, and is often used to try to attract summer racing bettors – and that means good prices and decent offers are available.

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The Premier League is the worlds biggest sporting competition in terms of revenue, number of people watching, wages, attendance and pretty much any other stat you want to look at; including betting, accounting for over half of bets placed on football in the UK.

Let’s face it the league is elitist and based on money, and for a long time this caused stagnation with three teams dominating the first 20 years; Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal. Lately, however, the league has gained a new competitive streak, most notably with Leicester winning in 2015 and then three new dominant forces arising in Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City, who look set to continue their battle in 2026-27, in the way United and Arsenal did 15 years ago – that is except the level is now much higher, as seen with Liverpool coming second in 2019 with an astonishing 97 points.

In the UK 70% of bets are placed on football and nearly three quarters of those wagers go on the Premier League, making this one event responsible for around half of all bets placed. Considering this if you bet on the PL you would be insane not to search around for the best offers and odds from our leading bookies. Read our detailed guide for more.

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