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Retired jockey Robert ‘Choc’ Thornton, and Irish TV personality and racehorse owner Hector Ó hEochagáin have been named respective Great Britain and Ireland captains for the 2016 BetBright Cup. Formerly the Prestbury Cup, the BetBright Cup is awarded to the country with the greatest number of Cheltenham Festival winners. Great Britain took the inaugural crown in 2014 and secured a narrow …

Irish online bookmaker BetBright this Saturday confirmed the appointment of Rich Ricci as its new Executive Chairman. Ricci (51) the former Director of Corporate Investments for Barclays Bank, is one of UK racing’s most successful owners with his stables having provided champion studs such as Douvan, Faugheen and Min. Following press speculation that Ricci would join BetBright, the operator unveiled …

It seems that the end may be nigh for former TV favourite The X factor. Bookmaker William Hill is offering odds of 5/1 that 2015 winner Louisa Johnson will be dropped by her record label before the end of the year. This follows the news that Ben Haenow has become the latest former contestant turned victim to be shown the door …

Cherry Gaming AB (Cherry AB) has confirmed the appointment of Aron Egfors as Managing Director of its Nordic focused land based gaming division ‘Restaurant Casino’ (Cherry Spelglädje AB) Egfors succeeds current Cherry Gaming CEO Fredrik Burvall as MD of the casino subsidiary. He gains promotion to MD of Cherry Spelglädje AB, following 18 years’ service with the operator. He will be tasked …

Reporting on its H1 2015/16 performance (unaudited six month period ending 31 December), the governance of Rank Group Plc, stated that it was pleased with results as like-for-like group revenues rose 5% to £370 million (H1 2014/15 – £351 million) Rank expects H1 2015/16 profits to be around the £46 million mark, up 11% on H1 2014/15 corresponding performance (£41.7 …

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced that it has extended its partnership agreement with sports data supplier Sportradar. Signing the agreement both organisations stated that they were committed to strengthening their fight against match-fixing in Asia. Sportradar will continue to assist the Asian football governing body, providing the organisation with match analysis and data. The partnership will additionally see …

ICE 2016 sees MRG Systems introduce its LiveSpace digital signage to the Gambling Industry. LiveSpace digital signage enables any source of data to be used to drive any number of display screens.  The prime feature of LiveSpace is its ability to take data in any number of standard formats, and combine this with a template written in HTML for display purposes. The data is monitored …

Betradar will be presenting an new innovative product range at ICE next week. With a coverage increase of over 50% in the past two years, all Betradar products can now offer a broader events range. One of Betradar’s highlights this year will be the Managed Trading Services – a tailor-made risk management solution – that allows any type of operator to outsource labour-intensive …

Ahead of its planned merger with Betfair, Paddy Power Plc governance released its corporate interim statement detailing that it expects to post an operating profit of  circa €180 million (£136 million) for its full year 2015 performance. Reporting on its H2 2015 performance (period of 1 July – 15 November 2015), Paddy Power governance stated that company performance had been …

Despite recent allegations around the Australian Open, organisers of the Burnie International are confident their event has not been targeted by match fixers, even though self-confessed ‘tanker’ Nick Lindahl has played there in the past. As reported in The Mercury, two other players allegedly among the 15 former and current professionals said to have played in matches surrounded by unusual …