Goodwin Racing Telephone Betting Blog

GVC (owner of Corals and Ladbrokes) last week released their results for the second quarter of the year. This is the first full period taking into account the drop in stake on the continue reading

UK Horseracing has got a massive crisis on its hands with Levy income being hit by a 17 million shortfall and the racecourses’ contributions to prize money about to take a massive dip continue reading

It was met with great surprise when on Friday punters struggled to get their multiple bets on Frankie’s mounts. The firm in question Bet365 took a lot of criticism from certain corners but continue reading

When we first started betting on course four years ago it was a real eye opener. I soon learned that all the other books had to get the jolly in continue reading

Today all On Course bookmakers were contacted with the news that the Racecourse Association were intending to add a new clause to their agreement with bookmakers: ‘No bookmaker may utilise software which monitors continue reading

My answer to this is a resounding YES. We are a business and although we like to give our customers a great service and great odds the bottom line is we have to continue reading

Everyone in the horse racing and betting industries looks forward to the Grand National. It’s the one day when you can guarantee you will be significantly busier. As ever the race continue reading

Twenty Six years ago when I owned my first betting shop the game was very different; the big three betting companies: Corals, Ladbrokes and William Hills had no offers so continue reading

The Sandown fiasco on Saturday cost the bookmaking industry a right few bob. A number of on course books had paid out on ‘One for Rosie’ before the new result was continue reading

We’re off to Lingfield today as usual even though there is only a handful of runners. This is one of the meetings the trainers have targeted in protest of ARC’s continue reading

As an on course Bookmaker at Lingfield it was dissapointing to see last Saturday's racecard reduced to just five races with the trainers protesting against the drop in prize money continue reading