Bookmaking - A Journey Through Time

Horse racing first originated as a leisure pursuit of royalty, through which local earls and lords could pass away their time; long, sunny afternoons on the heath, the best horse blood the respective lords had to offer, pitched against each other in a head-to-head battle for the bragging rights...

Friday May 30, 2008

published 49 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 6

Great Expectations

April 2008 will bring with it a new dawn in British horse racing. For the first time in 80 years, race goers in England will welcome the opening of a newly built racecourse, Great Leighs. Situated in Essex, Great Leighs has been built to exploit a geographical anomaly in the British horse racing...

Tuesday Apr 01, 2008

published 108 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 4

Flat Out

At a glance, the flat-racing calendar appears to be a familiar journey for a flat-racing fan. As with somebody who travels the same road over and over again, they become familiar with certain landmarks, hitching posts, and twists and turns. The flat-racing year is one such journey. The journey...

Saturday Mar 01, 2008

published 139 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 3

The Greatest Show on Earth

Ask a racing fan when his wife's birthday is, and he may have to pause momentarily to assure himself of the correct answer. Ask him when the Cheltenham racing festival takes place, and you can be certain of a swift response: mid-March. Cheltenham racecourse is composed of an outstanding...

Tuesday Jan 01, 2008

published 199 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 1

Christmas Racing Preview

Christmas, best known for wise men and overindulgence in quality food, is also famed for quality racing. This year promises to be no different as the extensive racing calendar provides an abundance of quality racing in which shrewd judges and eager eyes scout out early clues for the Cheltenham...

Saturday Dec 01, 2007

published 230 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 12

Market Information is Power

The London Stock Exchange handles 16 million trades per day; Betfair handles nearly eight times as many. That's a lot of business and a lot of information. All markets display similar characteristics, and betting markets are not dissimilar to financial markets in their behaviour. In financial...

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