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Rhyl Journal
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Rhyl Journal
O'Brien sets sights on Matron return for Porta Fortuna
A four-times Group One winner, she made the perfect start to this season when winning the Lanwades Stud Stakes. She was subsequently ruled out of Royal Ascot due to injury and while she is on her way back to action, O'Brien fears he will not have time to get her run into her prior to the Irish Champions Festival on September 13 and 14. 'She is good and back cantering. She picked up a ligament injury which has taken her a while to get back from and the earliest she will be back is for the Matron Stakes,' said O'Brien. 'That's what we are hoping for as it is in the time frame to get her back to the track. 'She won't have time for a prep race so will have to go straight there but it is a Group One in Ireland, so makes sense for a lot of reasons.'
Glasgow Times
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
O'Brien sets sights on Matron return for Porta Fortuna
A four-times Group One winner, she made the perfect start to this season when winning the Lanwades Stud Stakes. She was subsequently ruled out of Royal Ascot due to injury and while she is on her way back to action, O'Brien fears he will not have time to get her run into her prior to the Irish Champions Festival on September 13 and 14. 'She is good and back cantering. She picked up a ligament injury which has taken her a while to get back from and the earliest she will be back is for the Matron Stakes,' said O'Brien. 'That's what we are hoping for as it is in the time frame to get her back to the track. 'She won't have time for a prep race so will have to go straight there but it is a Group One in Ireland, so makes sense for a lot of reasons.'
North Wales Chronicle
17 hours ago
- Sport
- North Wales Chronicle
O'Brien sets sights on Matron return for Porta Fortuna
A four-times Group One winner, she made the perfect start to this season when winning the Lanwades Stud Stakes. She was subsequently ruled out of Royal Ascot due to injury and while she is on her way back to action, O'Brien fears he will not have time to get her run into her prior to the Irish Champions Festival on September 13 and 14. 'She is good and back cantering. She picked up a ligament injury which has taken her a while to get back from and the earliest she will be back is for the Matron Stakes,' said O'Brien. 'That's what we are hoping for as it is in the time frame to get her back to the track. 'She won't have time for a prep race so will have to go straight there but it is a Group One in Ireland, so makes sense for a lot of reasons.'
South Wales Guardian
20 hours ago
- Sport
- South Wales Guardian
O'Brien sets sights on Matron return for Porta Fortuna
A four-times Group One winner, she made the perfect start to this season when winning the Lanwades Stud Stakes. She was subsequently ruled out of Royal Ascot due to injury and while she is on her way back to action, O'Brien fears he will not have time to get her run into her prior to the Irish Champions Festival on September 13 and 14. 'She is good and back cantering. She picked up a ligament injury which has taken her a while to get back from and the earliest she will be back is for the Matron Stakes,' said O'Brien. 'That's what we are hoping for as it is in the time frame to get her back to the track. 'She won't have time for a prep race so will have to go straight there but it is a Group One in Ireland, so makes sense for a lot of reasons.'
Telegraph
20 hours ago
- Business
- Telegraph
Glorious Goodwood free bets and betting offers 2025
Glorious Goodwood betting offers Welcome offers Existing customers of horse racing betting sites will be able to find an array of bets with enhanced prices, but it is new customers who can reap the most generous rewards. Bookmakers look to attract new sign-ups by hugely boosting the odds of certain horses. For example, a horse that is generally priced at 2/1 to win could be available at 33/1 for new customers. Such Goodwood Festival betting offers may be limited to small stakes, with any winnings beyond the regular odds being paid out as free bets. Existing customer offers Bookmakers may give existing customers Glorious Goodwood free bets without requiring them to do anything but opt in. Usually the amount will be minimal, perhaps £1 or £2, but occasionally as high as a £5 free bet. Brands that have done this historically and may have such Glorious Goodwood betting offers are Sky Bet, William Hill, Ladbrokes and LiveScore Bet. No-lose bets These Glorious Goodwood betting offers can lead to your account being credited in cash, or as a Glorious Goodwood free bet if your selection loses. You may get this refund in full or as a partial amount of your original stake. Money back Similar to the above, with money-back offers punters get the chance to have their stake returned, as cash, or a Goodwood Festival free bet, if the horse they bet on finishes in one of a specified number of places in a race. Sky Bet, LiveScore Bet, Unibet and Tote have all run offers like this in the past. Check out the best horse racing betting sites in the UK for 2025 Glorious Goodwood free bets explained As ever, there are a huge number of generous Glorious Goodwood betting offers available from online bookmakers, including free bets. These are typically another sign-up promotion for new customers and will require a relatively small deposit and wager before unlocking the free bets. There may be stipulations about how the Glorious Goodwood free bets can be used. The full amount could be divided into separate stakes or the bets may have to be split between certain markets. Betfred's sign-up offer, which can be activated by signing up and entering the promo code BETFRED50, takes some beating. For placing a £10+ sports bet at evens (1/1) or above, you get 3x £10 in free sports bets as well as 2x £10 in acca free bets. Selection of Glorious Goodood free bet offers Glorious Goodwood boosted odds The likes of Sky Bet (Price Boost), Betfair (Superboost), bet365 (Super Boost), William Hill (Epic Boost) and Paddy Power (Power Prices) offer enhanced odds on certain horses. This will often be one of the highest-profile runners of the day at a big meeting. For example, take a look at the bet365 Super Boosts from this year's Royal Ascot: Day one Super Boost: 6/4 Field Of Gold in the St James's Palace Stakes Result: won at 8/11f Day two Super Boost: 2/1 Cinderella's Dream in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes Result: second at 5/4f Day three Super Boost: Charles Darwin at 7/4 (and then 6/4) in the Norfolk Stakes Result: won at 8/13f Day four Super Boost: 9/4 Shadow Of Light in the Commonwealth Cup Result: unplaced at 6/4f Day five Super Boost: 7/4 Ghostwriter or Rebel's Romance in the Hardwicke Stakes Result: Rebel's Romance won at 6/4f Check out the bet365 bonus code for July 2025 ITV-specific offers bet365 will not be beaten on price on any horse for all UK and Irish races shown live on ITV Racing – from 10am Back a winner at 4/1 or more, place a bet on the next bet365 feature race and get your money back if it loses (up to £50) Each-way betting While many operators will be offering extra places at the Goodwood Festival – and extra-place races will not only be limited to just the handicaps – the table below details the minimum terms. Extra each-way places All year round you will find extra places offered by bookmakers, and these are particularly important at the Goodwood Festival. Take the Golden Mile on the Friday. This race can feature up to 20 runners. And the Stewards' Cup on the Saturday could have a field of 28. So, you want to be getting as many places as possible if betting each-way in contests such as these. Sky Bet tends to be the market leader for extra places – it paid seven places in the Wokingham at Royal Ascot, for example – and sometimes bookmakers will also have extra places priced up as a separate market. You will get longer odds with fewer places, and shorter odds for more places. There is a strong sign-up offer you can make full use of with Sky Bet Tote betting When betting with the Tote you are betting into a pool, so the money staked on each horse in a race is pooled together. After the race, everyone who has backed the winner will receive a share of that pool money, depending on the size of their original stake. Tote does not set the odds as a traditional bookmaker would. The returns are determined by the number of people that have backed that particular horse relative to the overall pool. The Tote Guarantee means that even when the bookmaker starting price (SP) is larger than the Tote dividend, it will top up bet returns online so that you are never worse off. Tote betting includes 'exotic' options such as exactas (winner and second) and trifectas (winner, second and third), the same idea as fixed-odds forecasts and tricasts but with returns coming from the overall pool of money on the market. Tote Placepots and Jackpots The Placepot, where you need to select at least one horse to place – at standard place terms – in each of the first six races on a card can have big payouts. And the Tote Jackpot can pay out mega money, although you need to find the winners of all the first six races, so naturally this is much tougher than the Placepot. You can select multiple horses in each race for these bets, although the more horses you add the more expensive the bet becomes. Tote World Pool World Pool is a collaboration between global totes and the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC). Bettors from locations such as Hong Kong, Australia, France, the United States and the UK all effectively bet into the same pool for each race. This means that there will be more liquidity in the pools. And there could be value by avoiding the big players – for example, Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore – who are familiar names worldwide, and instead siding with lesser-known trainers and jockeys. Tote World Pool days at the Goodwood Festival: Tuesday July 29 – full card Wednesday July 30 – full card Thursday July 31 – full card Best odds guaranteed explained Best odds guaranteed is one of the concessions most favourable to punters. When a bookmaker offers BOG, you can take a price safe in the knowledge that if the selection drifts in the market and returns at bigger odds, you are paid out at that bigger starting price. However, not all bookmakers offer this promo and it does not usually kick in until after a certain time on race day – and it may not be applicable to all races. Some bookmakers also require customers to opt in for this offer. This table shows whether these bookmakers are offering BOG: Why not take up this Betano sign-up offer if you haven't already? Top races at Glorious Goodwood There is good racing each day of this five-day fixture, which runs from Tuesday to Saturday, and the meeting features three Group 1s as well as fiercely competitive handicaps, such as the Golden Mile and the Stewards' Cup. Here is a look at the main races at this year's Glorious Goodwood, as well as last season's results: Free bets are available for new customers with the William Hill promo code How to follow the action When looking to take advantage of Goodwood Festival free bets, ITV will be showing the action and the Goodwood Festival will also be on Racing TV, and almost all bookmakers will be streaming the five-day meeting. Bookmakers will require you to log in and, in some cases you may only be able to watch if you have placed a bet – usually for a relatively small stake – or if you have a funded account. However, a site such as Betfair asks only that you log in to access the live pictures. Take advantage of the best no-deposit casino bonuses, and get free online slot spins just for signing up Bet types explained Accumulators As well as single bets, where the user is backing one horse, there are also options to include several horses in multiple bets. You could have two horses both to win, or back them each-way (ie, win and place), in a straightforward double – or three runners for a treble and so on. Basically, you can combine bets on as many horses as you like. These accumulators can be a great way to build up the odds. There are also other multiple bet options beyond just the simple accumulator, and these can be a good way of still getting paid out even if certain runners let you down. Lucky 15s, 31s and other multiple options Among the classic multiple bet options is the Lucky 15. This puntbet is made up of four selections, with single bets on each of them (four bets), six doubles (all the combinations of the four selections), as well as four trebles, and one fourfold accumulator. The clue is in the name – that is 15 bets in total. That could seem like a lot of bets but you can stake accordingly and, as the odds build, these options can return substantial payouts even for a relatively small lay-out. There is also the Lucky 31 – same idea as the Lucky 15, but five selections (and 31 bets). The Yankee is another decent option. Four horses are backed, but without the singles – which you may not want on short-priced selections – so 11 bets in total. Other considerations include the Heinz that, as you may have guessed given the name, is 57 bets (from six selections), and a Goliath, which is 247 bets (from eight selections). And the list goes on.
