December 2010 Blog Posts (6)

 

KAUTO STAR

 

Here's a name that draws forth the Experts,what's the score thern, for the upcoming meeting?

 

Is this the world's greatest, what's the view fromthe Sports Exchange tyros [Adonis?]

 

TELL US NOW!

Have a look at this seasonal sparkler from Betfair on their corporate site at: http://bit.ly/e2Ipoc

The boss, Mr Yu, predicts years of strong growth generated from: "... well-invested technology platform position the Group strongly for growth in the years to come, together with the potential for…

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There's no doubt the racing industry considers it badly let down by the government's floundering funding efforts - bodging the treatment of off-shore bookies and exchanges, and now seeking to sell the Tote, an important part of racing's current funding.

So its good to hear that the BHA is pledged to support an effort to set up the Tote as a charitable foundation. Rather than a sale to the self-same industry structures of exchanges, off-shore bookies and the like.…

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Well here it is again, the Great Seasonal Tote Chase, quite a large field of possible buyers, current estimates of likely sales value dropped a lot since the last 'fix', now stands at £250m (was £400m in 2008).

Contrast with the market cap of Betfair at and after its recent flotation - some pointers here for Sports_Punter maybe, who has been seeking to rationalise the unrationalisable, see his learned efforts at…

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Now we know. Our fearless journalistas and courageous members of the commentariat were right on the button with their selfless revelations of murky dealings in the seamier backrooms of the world's footie rulers. Continue

Dont know if you guys are Twitterers but well worth keeping an eye (ear?) open for Sports Punter. And I know how everyone loves a Betfair story. There are 9 solid pages of posts on this site, must be ~200 fuming, seething, festering blog posts - see them simply by putting 'Betfair' into the Search engine on the front… Continue