Betting

Papal election sparks frenzy of betting and adopt-a-cardinal

10 Mar 2013

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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Sport Digest, February 14, 2013

14 Feb 2013

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.

3:04AM

Huge betting moves pay off for astute punters

11 Nov 2012

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...

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Increased services for mainland tourists

5 Sep 2012

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...

3:17AM

Betting syndicates move over the border

9 Jun 2012

Cross-border soccer betting syndicates have set up gambling websites that operate from mainland bases in an attempt to avoid detection.

5:06PM

Betting on sectional times may open door to corruption

16 Nov 2011

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...

12:45AM

Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

3:37AM

Pair held in raid on betting syndicate

9:40AM

Longer trips await smart sprinter

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...

7:03AM

Letting jockeys bet would invite trouble

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,...

2:25PM

Betting rule for staff is half-hearted solution

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.

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8:37AM

HK$12.3m in illegal soccer betting slips seized

Undercover police officers arrested ten suspected bookmakers and seized soccer betting slips worth HK$12.3 million in three operations against illegal soccer gambling.

6:46AM

Everyone a winner thanks to mainland bookies

Another race day on Saturday, another good jump in the betting figures year on year.

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