Stan James are giving away free bets if your horse comes second in the Imperial Cup
March 11, 2011
The Imperial Cup is a listed race that takes place on Saturday 11th March from Sandown Racecourse. It is a class 1 race for horses that are aged 4 years and over. The race will feature 26 runners who will be covering a distance of 2 miles and 110 yards.
With the Cheltenham Festival just around the corner the bookies Stan James have decided to reward their customers by giving away free bets for punters to use during the festival. To qualify for the offer you will need to place a bet on the Imperial Cup and if your horse finishes in second place in the race then your losing stake will be refunded for you to then use a free bet on the Cheltenham Festival.
Imperial Cup outright odds
All odds for this market are supplied by bookmakers Stan James who are paying out on 5 places on this race, just click on the odds to bet.
- 6/1 – Arrayan
- 8/1 – Via Galilei
- 10/1 – The Betchworth Kid
- 11/1 – Eradicate
- 14/1 – Fiulin
- 14/1 – Alarazi
- 16/1 – Alpine Eagle
- 16/1 – Tito Bustillo
- 16/1 – Prince of Fire
- 18/1 – Kangaroo Court
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Who will be the top trainer at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival?
March 9, 2011
With only days to go before the 2011 Cheltenham Festival punters are already getting excited with the anticipation of four days of quality racing.
Earlier last month we looked at which jockey will go on to win the most races at this years festival and be crowned the top jockey at Cheltenham. Today we are looking at which of the trainers that are taking horses to the festival will emerge as the festivals top trainer. The odds are currently tied between Paul Nicholls and Nicky Henderson who are both showing at odds of 13/8. Last year the title was won by Henderson who recorded 3 win and stole the crown away from Paul Nicholls who had won the title in the previous 4 running’s of the festival. In total Nicholls has won the award on 6 occasions and Henderson has won it 7 times.
Cheltenham Festival Top Trainer
The odds for this market come courtesy of bookmakers Boylesports, click on the trainers odds to bet.
- 13/8 – Paul Nicholls
- 13/8 – Nicky Henderson
- 6/1 – Willie Mullins
- 16/1 – Alan King
- 14/1 – Nigel Twiston Davies
- 16/1 – David Pipe
- 16/1 – Phillip Hobbs
- 25/1 – Donald McCain Jnr
- 40/1 – Ferdy Murphy
- 33/1 – Jonjo O’Neill
- 50/1 – Mrs John Harrington
- 50/1 – Noel Meade
- 66/1 – Dessie Hughes
- 66/1 – Edward O Grady
- 66/1 – Gordon Elliott
2011 Cheltenham Festival Betting Specials
March 4, 2011
The much anticipated four day Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us and it is promising to be one the most exciting festivals of recent years. It anticipation of the event all of the major bookies are all creating some very special betting offers ready for the event.
Today the bookies Victor Chandler have announced some of their specials that they will be running for the festival. As with all bookies offers there will be terms and conditions, for the full legal spiel go to their websites and read up the small print!
Free Fall Offer
This is a free to enter competition where you win a £500 free sports bet. All you have to do is select a horse from each race which you will be given a mythical £1 for each selection. The punter with he overall largest return will win the prize.
Yankee Free Bet
If you place a Yankee or even a Super Yankee bet on any of the twenty odd races available at Cheltenham but you only end up with one winner they your losing stake will be refunded to you as a free bet and you will be able to use it on the next days racing.
Enhanced Odds
The bookies Victor Chandler will be giving 1/4 odds a place on races during the Cheltenham Festival. Also on forecast and tricast bets the bookies will be giving a 10% bonus on forecasts and 20% on tricasts
Beat Victor
This is a free to enter competition where you win a £500 free sporst bet. All you have to do is select a horse from each race which you will be given a mythcial £1 for each selection. The punter witht he overall largest return will win the prize.
Click here to place your Cheltenham Festival bet and claim your free £50 bet from Victor Chandler
Get your bet refunded if Cue Card wins the Supreme Novices Hurldle
February 28, 2011
The Supreme Novices Hurdle opens up the racing at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival which will be the start of an exciting four days of racing in a festival that will see 27 top quality races.
The race is a grade 1 National Hunt race for horses aged 4 years and older, it will be taking place on the Old Course and entrants will be covering a distance of 2 miles and 110 yards whilst navigating the eight hurdles on the course.
The bookmakers Paddy Paddy are running a great cash back offer on this race at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival. If the Colin Tizzard trained horse Cue Card wins the Supreme Novices Hurdle then they will then refund all of the losing singles made on this race. Cue Card is leading the ante post betting after having two good hurdles wins and the trainer will be looking to add another victory here.
Supreme Novices Hurdle outright odds
Here are the top 10 runners for the race, all of odds are supplied by the bookmakers Paddy Power who will payout the first 3 placed horses at 1/4 the odds.
- 9/4 – Cue Card
- 11/2 – Spirit Son
- 7/1 – Sprinter Sacre
- 9/1 – Zaidpour
- 9/1 – Recession Proof
- 14/1 – Al Ferof
- 16/1 – Day Of A Lifetime
- 20/1 – Hidden Universe
- 20/1 – So Young
- 20/1 – Gibb River
Click here to place you bet on the Supreme Novices Hurdle and claim your free bet from Paddy Power
Racing Post Chase Betting the pick of the weekend’s action
February 25, 2011
The Grade 3 Racing Post Chase is the big betting race of the weekend which takes place at Kempton Park on Saturday afternoon and is supported by three cracking Grade 2 races that are all trials for the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival. Here’s a look at the feature races and hopefully a few pointers in the direction of finding a couple of winners…
1.55 Kempton Park – Adonis Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 2)
Plenty of talented juveniles have been entered for this opener with the Triumph Hurdle being the target for at least some of those on show. Nicky Henderson won this race last year with Soldatino which of course went on to take the ‘Triumph’ at the Festival and the brilliant trainer might well try something similar this year with Celtus, who will be having his first run in this country since arriving from France.
Henderson is clearly impressed by this horse which is likely to start as the favourite but he will also be represented by Molotof, another Juvenile to have arrived at Seven Barrows from France.
Tim Vaughan who is rapidly making a big name for himself in the National Hunt has a very smart pair of runners in the unbeaten First Fandango and Architrave who won his first three starts in great style but appeared to be out of his depth when well beaten last time in the Triumph Hurdle Trial at Cheltenham back in November in a race won by Sam Winner.
Please note that both of these runners as well as several others have also got entries for the Dovecote Novices Hurdle later in the afternoon.
Selection: Celtus
2.25 Kempton Park – Pendil Novice Chase (Grade2)
Most eyes will be on the performance of the Phillip Hobbs, Captain Chris, who is 14/1 with paddy power the Arkle at Cheltenham and looks to have the right credentials to win this Grade 2. The seven year old has finished second in each of his four races so far this season, but showed on his last run that he has plenty left at the end and if amongst them at the last then he will be hard to beat. He also looks a very promising bet for the Arkle trophy Chase which takes place on the first day at the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival.
He will be up against, amongst others the talented five year old, Royal Charm who will be stepping up in class after two very encouraging wins over fences this season.
Selection: Captain Chris
3.00 Kempton Park – Racing Post Chase (Grade 3)
This looks a very difficult race to call with any number in with chances. Fistral Beach from the Paul Nicholls yard will likely go off as the favourite but there are plenty of doubts about his jumping ability so he is best left alone on this occasion.
Alan King has been quite bullish about the chances of his Bakbenscher and there is plenty of support around for the Phillip Hobbs trained Quinz who is one of two entries for this race from Hobbs who has saddled three winners of this renewal in the last few years.
Last year’s winner Razor Royale will be looking for back to back wins, but will need to show better form than he has so far this season. The 9 year old is one of the entries from the yard of Nigel Twiston-Davies, the other being recent Wetherby winner, Crescent Island who will be having only his second race after a lay-off of almost two years. It is interesting to note that Paddy Brennan, the Twiston-Davies stable jockey has elected to ride last year’s runner up and 2009 winner, Nacarat who will carry top weight.
Selection: Bakbenscher @ 9/1 with Victor Chandler
Boylesports offering to refund stakes if your horse is placed second during the Cheltenham Festival
February 24, 2011
The bookmakers Boylesports have launched a promotion on the upcoming Cheltenham Festival.
They are offering to refund bets if the horse you back is placed second during the first four races namely the Supreme Novices Hurdle, Arkle Challenge Trophy, Festival Handicap Chase and the Champion Hurdle.
In last years festival Get Me Out Of Here finished as runner up in the Supreme Novices at odds of 9/2, Somersby was second in the Arkle at odds of 4/1, in the Festival Handicap the 9/2 favourite the Package was pipped to the post and in the Champion Hurdle and Kyhber Kim at odds of 7/1 was second to Binocular. If there are similar results this year in the opening day of the four day festival the Boylesports could be looking to refund in excess of £1 million back to its customers on what is one of busiest horse racing days in the racing calendar.
The offer as always comes with some of the usual terms and conditions and has a maximum refund of £250 per customer; it only applies to the win part of singles and each way bets and not to singles as part of a multiple bet and bets must be placed before the start of the Champion Hurdle.
Click here to place your Cheltenham Festival and claim your free bet from Boylesports
Stan James offering a standout price on Ruby Walsh being top jockey at Cheltenham
February 21, 2011
The bookmakers Stan James are offering odds of 7/4 for Ruby Walsh to be again named the top jockey at this years Cheltenham Festival. The Irish jockey has won the coveted award on five previous occasions in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. in 2005 the award went to Graham Lee and in 2007 Robert Thornton picked up the prize. The standard number of wins at the Festival to be crowned winner is normally around the 3 wins mark but in 2009 Ruby Walsh managed to ride home 7 winners.
The four day festival takes place from Tuesday 15th March through to Friday 18th March.
Ruby Walsh has been out of action for sometime with the broken leg he sustained in fall from Corrick Bridge at the Down Royal in November. In the event that Ruby does not make it to Cheltenham then they will refund stakes back to punters that place bet on the market today only.
Top Cheltenham Festival Jockey
All odds come courtesy of bookmakers Stan James, click on the odds to bet.
- 7/4 – Ruby Walsh
- 11/4 – Barry Geraghty
- 6/1 – AP McCoy
- 8/1 – Robert Thornton
- 14/1 – Richard Johnson
- 14/1 – Jason Maguire
- 20/1 – bar
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Overturn the bookmakers on a fantastic weekend of Racing
February 18, 2011
Yet another cracking weekend of National Hunt racing awaits, allowing punters and racing fans alike to get their notebooks out looking to see those who will go on to run at the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival.
This weekend however is also a big weekend for Grand National followers, with the official Grand National Trial being run at Haydock on Saturday, but there is also the Weatherby Bloodstock Insurance Chase and the Betfair Chase both at Ascot which has entries for both Cheltenham and Aintree.
Over in Ireland it is Red Mills day at Gowran Park which has a superb card, including the Grade 2 Red Mills Trial Hurdle which will see the return to the racecourse of the very exciting Dunguib.
Potted previews of each of the top races this weekend are made below which is followed by the usual ‘Yankee’.
1.50 Ascot – Reynoldstown Novice Chase 3m (Grade 2)
An excellent trial for the RSA Chase at Cheltenham which brings together several very talented novices, two of which are from the Paul Nicholls stable and both could run well. The first of those however, Aiteen Thirtythree a dual winner this season, including a Grade 2 at Newbury is the pick from stablemate The Minack. Dangers lie in Master Of The Hall and the Tim Vaughan trained, Beshabar.
Tip: Aiteen Thirtythree
2.25 Ascot – Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance Chase 3m (Grade 3)
A difficult race to find the winner, but Piraya from the David Pipe yard looks to be on a good mark following some consistent performances. The Pipe stable has a very good record in Handicaps at Ascot and this 8 year old should be capable of improving it.
Tip: Piraya.
2.50 Gowran Park – Red Mills Trial Hurdle 2m (Grade 2)
If all those declared in the latest declarations then this race could be a classic with several big name runners, headed by Dunguib who will be making his seasonal reappearance. Also a likely runner is Fiveforthree who successfully returned to the racecourse earlier this week following a 22 month absence to easily win the Today Hurdle at Punchestown. Voler La Vedette is another high profile entry, this mare has been busy all season but never looked more impressive than she did last week when winning the Grade 2 Boyne Hurdle.
Tip: Fiveforthree
3.00 Ascot – Betfair Ascot Chase 2m5f (Grade 2)
On paper this is a straight race between Pride Of Dulcote and Riverside Theatre, however the Tom George trained Tartak could spring a surprise. Riverside Theatre is certainly the yardstick, his second place in the Grade One King George Chase last month is the best form in the race. A repeat of that performance he wins.
Tip: Riverside Theatre
3.20 Haydock – Grand National Trial 3m 4f (Grade 3)
A cracking race in prospect and one in which a case could be made for at least 80% of the runners. Alan King’s West End Rocker will likely go off favourite, but the Nigel Twiston-Davies trained, Major Malarkey looks to be well in with the weights and has been in good form this season.
Tip: Major Malarkey
3.45 Wincanton –Kingwell Hurdle 2m (Grade 2)
Many of the original entries for this Grade Two will have ran elsewhere before this race starts meaning that the field will almost certainly be a reduced one. However it should include the exciting novice Silviniaco Conti from the Paul Nicholls yard, who will be taking on Overturn from the Donald McCain yard with the highly regarded Mille Chief, trained by Alan King probably going off as favourite.
Tip: Overturn
Saturday’s Win Yankee:
Aiteen Thirtythree
Piraya
Major Malarkey
Overturn.
Place the yankee with Paddy Power who are offering a free bet of £100 for anyone opening a new account.
Quevega already the favourite for the David Nicholson Mares Hurdle
February 14, 2011
The David Nicholson Mares Hurdle is a grade 2 national hunt race that is ran over a distance of 2 miles and 4 furlongs and it will feature nine hurdles to jump and has a prize purse of around £90,000.
As part of their Countdown to Cheltenham promotional series the bookmakers Stan James have released their ante post odds for the David Nicholson Mares Hurdle which is scheduled to be the penultimate race on day one of this years Cheltenham Festival.
Already the strong favourite for this race is the Willie Mullins trained Quevega who will be looking to win the race for the third time in succession (winning in 2009 and 2010 with Ruby Walsh) and Stan James believe they are putting out the best odds available for this heavily backed horse.
David Nicholson Mares Hurdle antepost odds
Prices for this market come from bookmakers Stan James
- 5/4 – Quevega
- 6/1 – Sparky May
- 7/1 – Tarla
- 10/1 – Our Girl Salley
- 14/1 – Morning Supreme
- 14/1 – Morning Supreme
- 16/1 – Carole’s Legacy
- 16/1 – Macville
- 20/1 – bar
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Free bet from William Hill if you bet on the Conditional Jockeys Hurdle
March 19, 2010
The Martin Pipe Conditional Jockey’s Hurdle is the last but one race of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival starting at 16.40 today. It is the newest race of the Festival, it made its debut in 2009 and was won by Andytown trained by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Felix de Giles. It was named in honour of champion trainer Martin Pipe who recorded a record thirty four wins at the Cheltenham Festival.
The race is restricted to jump jockeys that not won more than 75 races these are known as Conditional Jockeys, and horses that aged 4 years and over. The race is a handicap National Hunt hurdle that covers a distance of 2 miles and 4.5 furlongs with nine fences to be jumped on the New Course at Cheltenham.
William Hill are running a great free bet offer on this race. If you place a bet with them for £20 on this race then they will give you £5 to use as a free bet on the in play market on the Aston Villa v Wolves match on Saturday.
Conditional Jockey’s Hurdle
Below are a selection of the highest placed runners on this race.
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