As the Catholic Church prepares to elect a pope, some irreverent souls are betting on the outcome while more religious-minded ones are "adopting" individual cardinals on a website to pray that...
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- May 25, 2013
- Updated: 5:41am
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Trainer Robert Smerdon has been fined A$10,000 (HK79,600 for his involvement in the Australian illegal betting scandal of jockey Damien Oliver, Racing Victoria said yesterday.
Even though a few favourites floundered, punters still seemed to zero in on the winners, with the Caspar Fownes-trained Blossom Daily landing one of two huge successful plunges in successive races...
The Jockey Club has acknowledged the growth of its mainland tourist market and also taken its first steps towards attempting to revive some of the exotic pools among a number of marketing...
Cross-border soccer betting syndicates have set up gambling websites that operate from mainland bases in an attempt to avoid detection.
After what has happened lately, with the jailing of cricketers for spot-fixing in matches or the rugby league scandal in Sydney over a plunge that went wrong on the 'first points' bet, you'd have...
The Ricky Yiu Poon-fair-trained Pretty One was workmanlike taking his record to three wins from four starts after being bet down to favouritism, and Brett Prebble admits that further than 1,200m...
Well, we are all about rules this week. And the other aspect that is breeding column inches like mushrooms after rain, in Australia at least, is about jockeys betting. Yes, with their own money,...
The club's policy change to allow its employees to bet this season, in specific circumstances, probably belongs in the yawn, so-what category since the provisos attached to it became known.
...Undercover police officers arrested ten suspected bookmakers and seized soccer betting slips worth HK$12.3 million in three operations against illegal soccer gambling.
Another race day on Saturday, another good jump in the betting figures year on year.
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