The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has informed that industry marketing and communications firm Square in the Air has been appointed its PR lead representative for UK activity. HKJC appoints Square in the Air ahead of the start of a new Hong Kong racing seasion this Sunday 3 September. Updating stakeholders, George Irvine, Commingling Development Director at Hong Kong Jockey …
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Officially closing its 2016/17 racing season, The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKGC) has reported record breaking turnover of HKD 11.7 billion ($15.6 billion), up 11% on season 2015/16 performance. Updating stakeholders, HKJC reverses a 2% decline in wagering on Hong Kong races witnessed from the 2014/15 racing season to 2015/16 Detailing performance drivers, HKJC governance notes that its season turnover had …
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UK racecourse operating firm Arena Racing Company (ARC) has confirmed the appointment of Jon Pullin as its new Racing Director. Pullin is promoted from within the firm, having previously held the title of Racing Operations Director, he takes over the ARC executive position from Stephen Higgins who will depart the firm to join the Hong Kong Jockey Club. A racing …
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Updating its clients and stakeholders, Racecourse Media Group has informed that it will begin to broadcast racing content from Hong Kong on UK TV channels of Sky 432, Virgin 536 and Freeview 231. Having entered a content partnership with the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), Racecourse Media extends its Asian racing coverage. Moving forward the specialist broadcaster will now show …
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Sporting Index has joined ESSA, the regulated betting industry’s integrity body. By joining with Sporting Index, ESSA has added sports spread betting to its existing coverage of traditional fixed odds and pool betting markets. ESSA now has 19 members, and represents many of the major regulated international sports betting operators: the ABB, Betclic, Bet-at-Home, Betsson, Bet365, BetVictor, Betway, bwinparty, Digibet, …
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Global gaming group Webis Holdings PLC has revealed that it is in talks with the Hong Kong Jockey Club to extend the partnership between the two organisations. In an AGM announcement, where it detailed that all resolutions at its latest annual general meeting were passed, Webis said that its US racing subsisdiary, WatchandWager.com LLC, is in advanced negotiations with Hong …
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Patrick Jay, the former Director of Trading for the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), has told a United Nations Congress on Crime that the global sports betting market is estimated to be worth up to $1 trillion. Addressing the UN conference in Doha on match fixing, Jay noted that the vast majority of sports betting wagers were generated illegally, and …
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Longitude LLC, the inventor and distributor of the Longitude Enhanced Pari-Mutuel System, has announced that it had reached the important milestone of US$1 Billion in customer wagers calculated using the patented Longitude software. Deployed for the calculation of odds on both horse racing and sports, Longitude allows operators that license its software an unprecedented degree of flexibility in the delivery …
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Senior management at Webis Holdings, confirmed that they would commit further investment to is WatchandWager sports betting subsidiary, after the division had seen substantial growth during the financial year (ending May 31). After a review of WatchandWager performance indicators, senior management of Webis Holdings confirmed that the division would see more investment, with a view to boost sales and corporate …
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The founding eight members of the Asian-African Tote Association (AATA) were announced in the opening association meeting held yesterday in South Africa. The new association aims to create strengthening ties among African betting operators and totes, and to further increase African racings and totes profile throughout the global gambling sector. The eight members of the AATA include Hong Kong Jockey …
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