03.04.14 Thursday Morning

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Horse Racing

The biggest betting race in the world takes place at 4.15pm on Saturday with the Grand National from Aintree. While the National Meeting itself starts at  2pm today (Thursday).  

And remember, you can get the inside track on the full three day meeting – including big race previews, expert opinion and form guide – in our free Timeform Grand National e-guide.

As for our prices, we have a host of spread specials, including Number of Finishers, Winning Distance, 1st to Last Distance and 1st Fence Casualties x 10 to name but a few.

We are also non-runner no bet on our fixed odds prices with Teaforthree leading the betting at 8/1, Monbeg Dude 12/1, Tidal Bay 14/1 and 2011 Gold Cup winner Long Run 14/1.

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.

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

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Football

This season’s thrilling title race looks like going down to the wire after Chelsea and Man City both dropped points last weekend. City are still the 8/11 favourites, Liverpool now 7/4 and Chelsea 7/1.

City start the weekend’s action in the 12.45am Saturday game on BT Sport against Southampton. We have the Citizens strong favourites here 1.55 – 1.75 over the Saints on our Supremacy price.

Chelsea face a tricky clash with in-form Stoke at the Bridge at 5.30pm, with coverage on Sky Sports 1. Our traders still strongly fancy a Blues win however with Chelsea 2/9, Stoke 14/1 and the draw 5/1.

On Sunday at 4pm, again on Sky Sports 1, Liverpool journey to a West Ham side all but safe after Monday’s win at Sunderland. Will Andy Carroll haunt his former side? We have the Supremacy price as Liverpool/West Ham (h) 1.4 – 1.6.

Liverpool’s game is preceded by Merseyside neighbours Everton hosting Arsenal at 1.30pm in what could be a key decider for fourth place. The Toffees have performed well at Goodison Park so far this season and our traders have Roberto Martinez’s men as 7/5 slight favourites, Arsenal 15/8 and the draw 9/4.

Jumping back to Saturday’s games and our Supremacy prices for the five 3pm kick-offs are; Cardiff/Palace 0.15 – 0.35, Hull/Swansea 0 – 0.2, Man United/Newcastle (h) 0.5 – 0.7 and Norwich/West Brom 0.15 – 0.35.

The weekend’s fixtures are rounded off by Tottenham hosting struggling Sunderland. Our Supremacy price for this one is Tottenham/Sunderland 1.05 – 1.25.

We’ll also have live and non-live betting on all the other English league and non-league action plus club football from Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Holland and various other global leagues.   

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

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Rugby 

The focus is on the Heineken Cup this weekend as eight of club rugby’s big names bid to reach the semi-finals of the competition.

First up on Saturday it’s Munster v Toulouse at Thomond Park, at 1.30pm with our traders favouring the hosts on a Points Supremacy quote of 2 – 5.

Clermont are strong favourites over Leicester Tigers in the 5pm game Clermont/Leicester 11 – 14 on the Supremacy and then at 6.30pm we have Ulster/Saracens 2 – 5. On Sunday, reigning champions Toulon host Leinster and we have the holders the favourites here with a Supremacy quote of Toulon/Leinster 4 – 7. All the games will be live on Sky Sports.

Elsewhere we’ll have live betting coverage on Sale v Northampton, Stade Francais v Harlequins, Bath v Brive and Wasps v Gloucester in the Amlin Challenge Cup and Super Rugby from Down Under.

Switching codes to Rugby League and we’ll have live and non-live betting on the Challenge Cup and NRL.
  
See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Golf 

This week’s golf spread betting and fixed odds betting takes in the Shell Houston Open, the NH Collection Open and the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

However, all the focus is on Tiger Woods after the 14-time major winner announced he would be missing the Masters for the first time since 1995 due to back surgery.

Woods’ withdrawal leaves Rory McIlroy as the 7/1 outright favourite, last year’s winner Adam Scott on 8/1, Phil Mickelson 12/1, Dustin Johnson and Jason Day 16/1, Henrik Stenson and Bubba Watson both 20/1 and U.S. Open champion Justin Rose and Matt Kuchar both 25/1.

The Masters begins on Thursday next week (April 10) after the par 3 contest on the previous day and we will have a huge range of Masters betting specials from our fixed odds and spread betting markets plus many in-play selections throughout the tournament.

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

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Cricket

Today (Thursday) we’ll have in-play betting on both the World T20 semi-finals from Bangladesh as Sri Lanka face the West Indies and India take on South Africa.

India remain the outright favourites to win the tournament at 15/8, Sri Lanka are 9/4 shots while the West Indies are 10/3 and South Africa 7/2.

We also have long-term prices available for the Indian Premier League, which begins with Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday, April 16 during the first part of the IPL, which is scheduled to take place in the UAE.

Royal Challengers Bangalore are the 4/1 favourites, Chennai Super Kings 9/2, Mumbai Indians 5/1, Hyderabad Sunrisers 11/2, Kings XI Punjab 11/2, Delhi Daredevils 13/2, Rajasthan Royals 9/1 and Kolkata Knight Riders 10/1.   

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

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Tennis 

We are now offering in-play betting on more events than ever before, with our live fixed odds and spread betting service taking in around 10,000 matches throughout 2014.

This week we’ll be covering the WTA Charleston and ATP St Brieuc as well as the four Davis Cup quarter-finals, which begin tomorrow (Friday).

We have Switzerland as the 10/11 outright favourites to eventually win the tournament with France 9/4, the Czech Republic 11/2, Great Britain 16/1, Italy 18/1, Germany 40/1, Japan 50/1 and Kazakhstan 150/1.

Our long term outright fixed odds prices for the second major of the season, the French Open, see Rafael Nadal as 4/5 favourite, Novak Djokovic 13/8, Stan Warwinka 16/1, Roger Federer 18/1, David Ferrer 22/1 and Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych both 33/1.

In the women’s side of the draw Serena Williams is the 11/8 favourite followed by Victoria Azarenka and Na Li at 7/1, Maria Sharapova at 8/1, Simona Halep 10/1 and Agnieszka Radwanska and Dominika Cibulkova both 28/1.

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

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Motor Racing

Race three of the F1 season goes to Bahrain with Mercedes so far dominating under the new conditions imposed on the teams and drivers.

Lewis Hamilton, who failed to finish the season opener in Melbourne, had a much better time of it in Malaysia as he dominated from the start to win convincingly with team-mate Nico Rosberg – victorious in Australia – taking second.

Unsurprisingly the pair lead the way in the outright betting for this Sunday’s race with Hamilton the even money favourite , Rosberg 2/1, reigning champion Sebastian Vettel 8/1, Fernando Alonso 16/1 and Kimi Raikkonen 25/1.

Don’t forget to view our Live Index during the race itself where drivers are awarded a spread based on being awarded 25 points for finishing first, 10 for finishing second and five for third.

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

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Darts

The half-way stage of the season will see the players looking to avoid following Simon Whitlock in being eliminated from the tournament. The Australian is still in action tonight, but cannot mathematically survive the cut off.

As for the betting, our 10-3 Leg Supremacy betting prices are as follows; Wright/Anderson 0 - 3, van Gerwen/Whitlock 13 - 16, Lewis/van Barneveld 1 - 4, Chisnall/Newton 1 - 4, Taylor/Thornton 9 - 12.

We also have a selection of specials on the night including Group Markets such as Total 180s, Highest Checkout and Total Missed Doubles plus a ‘Most 180s Index’ with all the players given a spread based on a make-up of 25 points to the player with the most 180s on the night, 10 to the player with the second highest number of 180s and 5 points to the player with the third highest.

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

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Rowing

It’s the 160^th boat race on Sunday and we have Oxford as the strong favourites to take victory and close the overall record, which currently stands at Oxford with 77 wins and Cambridge with 81.
 

We have Oxford at 2/9 for the win and Cambridge 3/1. Our traders are also predicting a Winning Distance of between 3.6 and 4.1 lengths on the day.

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

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Boxing

The trash talking is soon to start up in earnest as the build-up continues for Froch v Groves 2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, May 31st.

Froch was the controversial winner in round nine first time around after surviving an onslaught from Groves in the early rounds and with many observers feeling Groves should have been given more time to continue.

So who will prevail in the second showdown? Our traders have Froch the 4/7 favourite, Groves a 6/4 shot and the draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are priced at 26 – 27.5 meaning our traders think the fight will again finish at around the ninth round.

We also have prices on Manny Pacquiao’s rematch with Timothy Bradley on Sunday, April 13th in Las Vegas.

We have Pacquiao 8/15, Bradley 6/4 and the draw 22/1.

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

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Politics

The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it’s going to end as a ‘No’ vote.

That’s 1/5 to be the outcome while a ‘Yes’ vote is 10/3.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/6, Conservatives, 6/5, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 11/8, 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 Boris Johnson at 12/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne 25/1.

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

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