06.03.14 Thursday Morning

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Horse Racing

For the first time, Spreadex will be represented at the Cheltenham Festival. Nigel Spencer will have a pitch in the Tattersalls Enclosure on each day of the festival. If you are there, pop by to say hello!

Ahead of the Greatest Show on Turf, which starts on Tuesday next week, take a look at our Cheltenham Festival Infographic.

As for the betting, our Antepost fixed odds prices will switch to ‘non-runner, no bet’ as of Friday evening. In addition, our range of spread betting specials are now also live including Winning Distances over all 27 races, Winning Distances for each day, Festival Favourites, Biggest Winning Distance, Biggest Winning SP and many more.

In the big Championship races, as of 5pm on Thursday, March 6th, we were industry joint-best price on The New One and Hurricane Fly both at 11/4 in the Champion Hurdle, joint-best price on Sire De Grugy at 9/4 in the Champion Chase, joint-best 11/4 on Big Bucks in the World Hurdle and joint-best Last Instalment at 15/2 in the Gold Cup.

Don’t forget that in addition to our each-way and accumulators, you can now place forecast and tricast fixed odds bets on horse racing with Spreadex. Click the following link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

See all our latest horse racing spread betting and horse racing fixed odds betting prices here. 

Or click here to find out more about horse racing spread betting. 

Football

Football England’s laboured friendly victory over Denmark did little to change our long-term World Cup betting with Roy’s Boys 33/1 for glory in Brazil and 15 - 18 on our 100-75-50-25-10 Index.

As for domestic action, it’s the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend, with holders and new League Cup champions Man City a huge 2.15 - 2.35 Supremacy price over Wigan in a repeat of last year’s FA Cup final.

Our football spread betting Supremacy prices in the other FA Cup ties are Arsenal/Everton 0.55 - 0.75, Sheff Utd/Charlton 0.25 - 0.45 and Hull/Sunderland 0.3 - 0.5.

In the Premier League, leaders Chelsea take on Tottenham at the Bridge on Saturday at 5.30pm and our traders seem to quite strongly fancy the Blues in this one with a Supremacy price of Chelsea/Spurs 0.9 - 1.1.

As for the other games, Manchester United travel to the Hawthorns to take on struggling West Brom in a 12.45pm kick-off. David Moyes’ stuttering side are 8/11 for the win, the draw is 5/2 and the Baggies are 15/4.

There are three 3pm kick-offs with our Supremacy prices; Cardiff/Fulham 0.15 - 0.35, Norwich/Stoke 0.25 - 0.45 and Southampton/Palace (h) 0.3 - 0.5.

Click here to see our football spread betting and football fixed odds betting prices.

Or click here to find out more about football spread betting.

Rugby 

Our Points Supremacy price is England/Wales 2.5 – 4.5. On the fixed odsd, England are 4/7, the draw 18/1 and Wales 6/4.

The Points Supremacy prices in the other games are France/Scotland (h) 6 – 9 and Ireland/Italy 23 – 26.

We will also have a host of in-play betting on the Super Rugby and LV= Cup.

Our in-play Rugby League coverage starts with Widnes/Salford 3 – 6 in the Super League tonight (Thursday).

We’ll also have live betting on further Super League clashes plus fixtures in the NRL.
  
See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

Or click here to find out more about rugby spread betting. 


Cricket

England put the painful memory of the winter tour to Australia behind them with a 2-1 ODI series win over the West Indies.

On Sunday they play the first of three T20 games in Barbados as Stuart Broad’s side continues its warm up for the T20 World Cup, which starts on March 16th in Bangladesh.

England are 12/1 to win the tournament. Leading the betting are India and Australia, both at 4/1.

Click here to see all our latest cricket spread betting and cricket fixed odds prices.

Or click here to find out more about cricket spread betting. 


Golf 

A strong field has gathered in Doral, Florida for the WGC Cadillac Championship.

14-time major champion Tiger Woods is the defending champion, however injury struggles and an inconsistent start to the season could affect his chances of regaining his crown.

Some other big names strutting their stuff include Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson, Zach Johnson, Steve Stricker and Keegan Bradley.

We will have our usual range of in-play match betting each round as well as plenty of other live fixed odds and spread betting markets to play on.

We’ll also be covering the Puerto Rico Open.

Click here to see all our latest golf spread betting and golf fixed odds betting prices.

Or click here to find out more about golf spread betting. 


Tennis 

Our vastly expanded in-play tennis betting coverage, which will take in around 10,000 matches this year, this week takes in the ATP Indian Wells, in California, the first Masters 1000 event of the season.

Rafael Nadal will be out to defend his crown in the men’s side of the tournament while in the women’s side of the competition the Williams sisters are absent leaving Li Na as the number one seed.

We also have long term outright fixed odds prices available for the second major of the season, the French Open. Rafael Nadal is 8/11, Novak Djokovic 15/8, Juan Martin Del Potro 18/1 and Andy Murray, Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger Federer all 22/1.

In our outright fixed odds betting for the Davis Cup, Switzerland are even money favourites, France 9/4, Czech Republic 5/1, Germany 14/1 and Great Britain 18/1.

See all our latest tennis spread betting and tennis fixed odds betting prices here. 

Or click here to find out more about tennis spread betting. 


Snooker

The World Open takes place in Haikou, China from Monday and we’ll have coverage across the tournament.

World number one Neil Robertson will be out to make up for an early exit in the Welsh Open recently.

The Australian takes on Welshman Jamie Jones in the first round and is 11.5 – 14.5 in our 10-3 Supremacy market.

See all our latest snooker spread betting and snooker fixed odds betting prices here. 

Or click here to find out more about snooker spread betting. 


Darts

The Premier League of Darts has reached the week five stage with the action coming from Exeter.
 

The pick of the clashes is reigning champion Michael van Gerwen against Adrian Lewis. Van Gerwen is the 3 – 6 favourite here on our 10-3 Supremacy market.

Other 10-3 Supremacy prices are; Wright/Thornton 3 - 6, van Barneveld/Chisnall 3 - 6, Taylor/Anderson 8 - 11 and Thornton/Whitlock 1 - 4.

See all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds betting prices here. 

Or click here to find out more about darts spread betting. 


Motor Racing 

The new F1 season starts on March 16th in Melbourne with the drivers in for a real test of their skills given some fundamental changes to the performance and set up of the cars.

The drivers have now been through two rounds of testing which suggest there could well be a change to the recent dominance of Sebastian Vettel.

Our traders have Lewis Hamilton the 9/4 favourite to win the championship this year with Vettel 3/1, Nico Rosberg 5/1, Fernando Alonso 6/1, Kimi Raikkonen 10/1 and Jenson Button 12/1.

See our latest F1 spread betting and F1 fixed odds betting prices here.

Or click here to find out more about F1 spread betting.


Politics

We are now live with our fixed odds prices on the next UK General Election.

For Most Seats we have Labour 4/7, Conservatives, 5/4, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 5/4, Conservatives 3/1, UKIP 100/1, Liberal Deomocrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/8.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 8/13 favourite followed by Theresa May at 12/1, Boris Johnson 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, William Hague 20/1 and Phillip Hammond 20/1.

Click here to see all our latest politics spread betting and politics fixed odds prices.

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Specials

We have fixed odds outright prices for the current series of ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

Ray Quinn is the 1/5 favourite, Hayley Tamaddon 6/1 and Beth Tweddle 15/2.

Click here to see all our latest specials spread betting and specials fixed odds prices.

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