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Ladbrokes the online betting site and high street bookmakers have launched a ‘Bet British’ campaign to highlight the benefits to the public of placing a bet with them as opposed to some of the other telephone and online betting sites. Ladbrokes are drawing attention to the fact that they are not only a high volume employer with over 15,000 people employed in the UK alone, but also that they are a UK licensed bookmaker, and as such pay high amounts in tax and horseracing levies.

One of the most popular horse racing events of the year is due to start on Thursday 2^nd April, the Grand National at Aintree. This extremely well-loved meeting takes place over three days and sees one of the busiest times for horse race betting in the horse racing calendar. The final day is Saturday 4^th April seeing the final prestigious race the John Smith’s Grand National taking place. The Grand National has traditionally been the race of the people, where everyone who doesn’t ordinarily take part in horse race betting takes the opportunity to have their annual little flutter.

The Conservative party has announced that should they be voted in that they would change the current rules on online gambling and sports betting advertising. The Conservatives believe that since the new rules on gambling advertising were brought in that there has been a very worrying increase in not only gambling but also those with gambling addictions. The report in the Telegraph has suggested that 17,760 people have gone on to become gambling addicts since the current Government relaxed the rules on gambling advertising in 2007.

A shocking revelation that will rock the horse race betting world has been made in the BBC’s Season Ticket programme, Bruce Steele an Equine Veterinary Surgeon believes that there is every likelihood that many Northern Irish thoroughbred horses are being shipped abroad to end up on the tables of European diners. Although this revelation is shocking to all horse race betting fans in itself, that any horse bred to participate in the sport of kings could then possible be eaten, it is also a concern that the same horses are also likely to have been treated with medication that would mean they could be unsafe for human consumption.

Any horse that has been administered drugs would need this to be recorded on their horse passport, however the report showed that this is not currently happening in many cases in Northern Ireland and that often the passport is not available for the veterinarian to complete.

The long awaited fight between Amir Khan and Marco Antonio Barrera took place last Saturday and what a boxing match it turned out to be. There was a certain amount of trepidation in the air prior to the fight that Khan could possibly end his career if a win was not forthcoming. However once the gloves were on and the bets placed the British boxing fans could breath a sigh of relief as it soon became apparent that Khan was holding his own and giving the Mexican a run for his money, and not only did Khan eventually win but the boy also did good!

This years Cheltenham Festival is certainly the stuff of legends and will without doubt go down in steeplechase history and will be a benchmark for all future Cheltenham Festival events. For 2009 is the year that records were completely smashed; the first record breaking episode belongs to Ruby Walsh who walked away with 7 captivating steeplechase wins. Ruby’s name is a fitting tribute as he is without doubt a gem of a jockey delivering wins of gigantic proportions and smashing the previous record of five winners at the festival. If that in itself is not enough to get the horse racing world excited then Kauto Star rising like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes to be the first horse in festival history to come back from the wilderness to re-claim the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

The ASA have made a recent adjudication and upheld a complaint made against Sohi Capital Partners who had a poster advertising campaign for their football betting site RequestABet.com. The poster which caused one person to complain featured a group of men with a football, fists raised in the air in celebration with a headline ‘Beating the City Boys at their own game’ and the text "RETURNED 13.56% LAST SEASON, THIS SEASON PROMISES TO BE EVEN MORE LUCRATIVE. WITH: INFLATION EATING AWAY AT SAVINGS. PROPERTY MARKET IN CRISIS. STOCK MARKET SUFFERING IN CONFIDENCE. WHY NOT TRY AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD. LOG ONTO WWW.REQUESTABET.COM ... ". The ASA made the ruling agreeing with the complainant that the football betting advert was considered to be misleading and irresponsible and which ultimately means that the advert is unable to be shown in that format again.

There has been much news published via press releases at the weekend regarding Coral online betting site and bookmakers being the official sponsors of the prestigious Players Darts Championships, held each year in Essex at the Circus Tavern. Well as much as we are excited here at the Hideout that Coral are getting behind British darts, we are a little confused why Coral are releasing this information to the media when not only is this fairly old news but also that the said tournament has already been played and won by Phil Taylor. There is certainly no hope of betting on this tournament as it is well and truly over.

The clock is ticking for the start of the Cheltenham Festival, and reports have reached us that there is one casualty already. The five year old Hurricane Fly who was considered to be a likely horse race betting favourite in the Supreme Novice Hurdle is out, trainer Willie Mullins is determined to look at the longer term picture and to pull him out now in the hope that his future prospects will benefit. All is not lost for the Irish trainer as he still has hopes of a win with the powerful Cousin Vinny.