Sky Sports attracts record viewing figures for second time in two months December 8, 2020 Sky Sports has thrived during the second national lockdown, breaking its audience records for the second time in two months. Sunday 29 November saw an average of 1.17m viewers and a peak of 4m tune in to the Sky Sports portfolio of channels. Drawing the record audience were a triple header of live football that [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Royal Racer the one for the King of the Valley December 8, 2020 YOU CAN guarantee that trainer Caspar Fownes eyes would have lit up when he heard there was a £20,000 prize up for grabs for gaining the most points in the International Jockeys Challenge on Wednesday. 53-year-old Fownes, the current runaway leader in the trainers’ title race with 31 winners – nine clear of his nearest [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Doyle can end 2020 Smiling December 8, 2020 ENGLISH pilot Hollie Doyle is having a season which must have exceeded even her wildest expectations. The trailblazing jockey has enjoyed an unbelievable season, which has included a Royal Ascot winner, two Group 1 winners on British Champions Day and finishing fourth in the British Jockeys’ Championship. If that wasn’t enough, she won the Sunday [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Valley punters will be Grateful Moore is back December 8, 2020 IT’S showtime at Happy Valley on Wednesday when the inner-city track hosts the International Jockeys’ Championship, a four-race format with £50,000 and trophy to the winning jockey. With a galaxy of star jockeys from around the world, including English contingent Tom Marquand, Hollie Doyle, Ryan Moore and William Buick, as well as local favourites Joao [...]
DP World Tour Championship and Race to Dubai 2020 prize money: Up to $5m on offer to winner in European Tour finale December 8, 2020 Two of golf’s biggest prize money payouts will be settled this week when the DP World Tour Championship concludes the Race to Dubai. The winner of the former stands to bank $3m, the biggest single tournament winner’s prize in the sport. Whoever wins the Race to Dubai, the European Tour’s order of merit, meanwhile, will [...]
Banning betting companies from sport sponsorship will create a huge void that may never be filled December 7, 2020 A few months ago, football club Swansea City announced its university namesake as its new shirt sponsor and thereby broke ties with a betting company. They may be just the first of many football clubs to break away from gambling and, like Swansea City, they will take a financial hit from the switch. This year’s [...]
Ollie Phillips: England may have won but France were the real stars of the Autumn Nations Cup December 7, 2020 It was brilliant to see England claim the Autumn Nations Cup in such dramatic fashion on Sunday. Rugby fans have been missing that kind of competitive tension, so it was awesome that the competition was decided by a golden penalty. But while England took the silverware, much of the plaudits will rightfully go to the [...]
Lawrence Dallaglio: Auction part of drive to give kids better prospects December 7, 2020 Watching the Autumn Nations Cup over the past few weeks has brought some much-needed entertainment to our lives but it has also provided a funding lifeline for the sport in a time where it was nervously looking into a challenging future. Whilst the sport will have to navigate some tricky decisions in relation to the [...]
Trevor Steven: Born again Tottenham are genuine Premier League title contenders December 4, 2020 As Tottenham prepare to host Arsenal this weekend, the north London rivals could hardly be in more contrasting form. Spurs sit top of the Premier League after 10 games, 13 places above their neigbhbours, so the momentum is firmly with them. And I put that down to three main factors: Harry Kane, Gareth Bale and [...]
The City A.M. Punter Podcast Sandown, Aintree & Hong Kong December 4, 2020 It’s Tingle Creek Day at Sandown on Saturday and the Becher Chase at Aintree, both classy looking races this weekend. Trainer David Pipe knows what it takes to win the Becher Chase, having been successful in 2016 with Vieux Lion Rouge, who is back again for this year’s renewal, alongside stable companion Ramses De Teillee. [...]