Dance the night away on course July 11, 2008 Last weekend saw a thrilling finish to the 2008 Coral-Eclipse with 14,000 people flocking to Sandown Park to attend their biggest Flat race day of the season. Racegoers were rewarded with stunning weather and a fantastic finish to the £500,000 CoralEclipse with the brilliantly ridden Mount Nelson just getting up on the line to deny [...]
Putt your money on Garcia missing out on glory again July 11, 2008 Royal Birkdale hosts the Open for the ninth time next week, without Tiger Woods, but with plenty of others from the 1998 Championship (the last time the tournament was held at the course). All those returning to Birkdale will find it 150 yards longer than a decade ago at 7,173 yards. However, the extra yardage [...]
Go West and get on 18/1 ace Lee July 11, 2008 Despite Europe’s continuing domination in the Ryder Cup, Americans have won seven out of the last 10 Open Championships. In fact, since Nick Faldo last won in 1992, only two Europeans have taken the title, and both at Carnoustie – Paul Lawrie in 1999 and Padraig Harrington last year. Can a European win the old [...]
Have a Luke at 50/1 Donald for The Open July 11, 2008 One of the greatest sporting events in the British calendar tees off on Thursday, with Royal Birkdale playing host to the 137th Open Championship. And without world No.1 Tiger Woods in the field, we at the Punter are confidently predicting a European winner, nay, a British winner in fact, with Luke Donald, Justin Rose and [...]
Have the Utmost Respect at the Darley July Cup July 11, 2008 Although the weather has put a dampener on the July Newmarket meeting, this afternoon offers an excellent final day card for punters to get their teeth into and Utmost Respect could be the value to land the feature Darley July Cup. This one will relish the testing conditions and should go well at double-figure odds. [...]
Expect a wide open Open July 11, 2008 Once upon a time there was no Tiger Woods in the Open Championship. It was an age when newspapers, fans and bookies used to speculate widely and sometimes wildly about what might happen. Who was hot and who was not. Was it going to be Nick Faldo again? Could Greg Norman get the better of [...]
Tories slam Brown’s latest car tax hike July 11, 2008 The Conservatives party yesterday slammed government plans to raise vehicle duty for polluting cars after it emerged the drivers of up to nine million vehicles could be left worse off. The news that so many hard pressed drivers of older and second hand cars will be hit has raised the spectre of another revolt by [...]
Hays cautions on slowdown July 11, 2008 British recruitment giant Hays yesterday warned that UK growth was slowing and that it would have to cut jobs, although it said it still predicted profits in line with market expectations. Hays, which generates around half its fees in the UK and Ireland, grew total net fees by 16 per cent in the quarter ending [...]
Sports Direct owner comes out fighting July 11, 2008 Mike Ashley, the boisterous billionaire owner of Sports Direct, yesterday pledged to become a “good guy on corporate governance” as the retailer saw its full-year profits halve as consumers tightened their spending. The retailer’s lack of transparency in failing to provide like-for-like sales in its quarterly results has been heavily criticised by City analysts. But [...]
Auntie’s problems run deeper than executive bonuses July 11, 2008 The case of “trebles all round” for top BBC executives, after a year in which viewers were deceived and trust damaged, rightly dominated news about the Corporation’s annual report this week. But an eyebrow should be raised at the scale of the bonuses. The overall pay of director of vision Jana Bennett rose by 24 [...]
