It’s the most important week in the UK racing calendar, the “greatest show on turf”. Cheltenham Festival enamoured racing fans across the world as shock results twinned with a win for the favourite in the Gold Cup presented mixed results for fans and bookmakers. bet365 has told SBC News that the week of racing ended “honours even” between its trading …
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Julie Harrington, CEO of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), has issued a statement regarding British Jump racing following the 2024 Cheltenham Festival. The BHA has voiced concerns over British Jump racing after Ireland dominated the Grade 1 racing at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival, where Irish trainer Wille Mullins surpassed 100 total Festival wins, emphasising the lack of competition that British trainers pose. …
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Ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, Sportsbook and Trading Director Mark Wilson pinpoints five key challenges to be encountered, and highlight how FSB will overcome these as the true horse racing specialists in the sportsbook platform provider space. People The foundation upon which our entire horse racing operation has been built on. Having intuitive, in-house expert knowledge on the sport allows …
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Cheltenham Festival is arguably one of the biggest events in the betting calendar. With 200,000+ bettors descending on the racecourse over a five day period, and even more watching the racing unfold on TV, is it an attractive proposition for sports betting companies? Conleth Byrne, Product Director at SIS, and Alex Beecham, Managing Director of Checkd Media, gave SBC News …
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FSB has reported a 38% year-over-year increase in bet numbers and a 45% growth in active players engaging with its partner community during the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The sports betting and igaming supplier lauded the figures as ‘record performance numbers’, which were supplemented by a new platform revenue high for the annual event and a 5% jump in turnover from …
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Checkd Group generated over 1 million impressions and 57,390 branded views for its ITV7 video campaign during Cheltenham Festival. For the second year in a row, the company’s core brand division, Checkd Media, produced content for its betting brand The Winners Enclosure (TWE) and the addition of racing content to its Tipster Hub. The company lauded these figures as its …
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OpenBet has revealed that it processed just over half a billion transactions across its sportsbook platform during last week’s Cheltenham Festival. The platform, content and service provider to the sports betting industry explained that the annual four-day national hunt racing meeting produced an ‘exponential’ amount of activity. Highlights amongst OpenBet’s customers included more than 65 million bets being processed and …
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Regulus Partners examines the implication of yet another DCMS public consultation that UK Gambling has been drawn into and last week’s Cheltenham Festival, which put on a fair show for punters and bookmakers. If there is one thing that gambling needs like a hole in the head, it is yet another public consultation – but that is precisely what we …
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The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has warned the government to listen to betting consumers who value their free bets and promotions. The trade body points to a recent YouGov poll it commissioned, which reveals that over 80% of bettors believe gambling companies should be permitted to provide promotions like free bets. YouGov’s survey found that 82% of respondents support …
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The UK’s betting industry is prepared to support the government’s upcoming budget amid heightened financial uncertainty for the country, the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has said. However, with one of the biggest betting events of the UK sporting calendar commencing today at Cheltenham Racecourse, the trade body has called on the government to address the needs of the industry …
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