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Mark Davies

Open Day, or open season?

Seeing that Tony McCoy scored an in-running win for punters at 999-1 yesterday (when he came from 10 lengths back aboard the 9-2 shot Open Day in the racingUK.com Juvenile Novices' Hurdle at Market Rasen ) brought back memories of the first such bet of…

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Mark Davies

Political statement?

The second race on the card at Fontwell's forthcoming Cheltenham preview meeting, on 10th March, raises an interesting question: what constitutes a fact and what constitutes politics? Betfair's proposed name for the race was the "Betfair pays £7m horseracing levy Maiden Hurdle", which is, I…

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Mark Davies

Political statement?

The second race on the card at Fontwell's forthcoming Cheltenham preview meeting, on 10th March, raises an interesting question: what constitutes a fact and what constitutes politics? Betfair's proposed name for the race was the "Betfair pays £7m horseracing levy Maiden Hurdle", which is, I…

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Mark Davies

Racing dinners

I had dinner last night with some big names in racing, chatting about some of the issues facing the sport. Refreshingly, it took more than an hour before we moved off a wide-ranging and interesting discussion and got onto the old chestnut of Betfair not…

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Mark Davies

Racing dinners

I had dinner last night with some big names in racing, chatting about some of the issues facing the sport. Refreshingly, it took more than an hour before we moved off a wide-ranging and interesting discussion and got onto the old chestnut of Betfair not…

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