Coral has published it list of the 100 most influential tweeters in the UK Horse Racing Community, with Champion Jump Jockey AP McCoy topping the chart. The definitive list has been compiled in association with social media analytics company, PeerIndex, with each entry being ranked with a ‘PI-score.’ The chart sees tipsters, jockeys, owners and trainers rubbing shoulders with broadcasters, …
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UK bookmakers had a Boxing Day to forget as they took a combined £30 million hit on Friday’s football fixtures, making it a very merry time of year for football betting punters. The football fixtures on Friday 26 December saw all betting favourites win their respective matches, as bookmakers cashed out thousands of pounds on winning bets and accumulators. Coral …
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UK bookmaker Coral has raised £10,000 for Prostate Cancer UK, over the past month, new and existing Coral customers have had the chance to take part in Coral’s ‘GOALvember’ activity, allowing them to win free bets. Each week, the challenge asked punters to select a footballer from Coral’s list of players and each time they scored that week, they won a …
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Coral, in partnership with Chepstow Racecourse and Ayr Racecourse, announces the launch of a £100,000 bonus initiative linking two of British racing’s most prestigious Grand Nationals. The winner of the 2014 Coral Welsh Grand National, run at Chepstow Racecourse on Saturday 27 December, will earn a £100,000 bonus should the horse then win the Coral Scottish Grand National on Saturday …
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Coral and Ayr Racecourse have agreed a new five-year for the bookmaker to continue its backing of the Scottish Grand National. Coral has sponsored the race since 2007 and will continue to do so until at least 2019. Simon Clare, Coral PR and Broadcast Director, said: “The Coral Scottish Grand National is now one of the most watched and most bet …
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Adam Hurley of Ladbrokes has scooped the 2014 Betting Shop Manager of the Year award. The manager of the Winchecombe Street branch in Cheltenham beat a strong final eight, also including Ladbrokes’’ Kirsteen Sutherland who was the regional winner for Scotland. Hurley, who has been with the company since the age of 18, commented: “I’m so honoured to have won …
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Scott Longley, editorial director at Regulus Insights, takes a look at the recent ASA report in to gambling advertising and finds plenty in there to concern the industry. If there is some good news for the UK’s gambling companies from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) review into gambling advertising published late last week, it is that the market research undertaken …
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Entertainment and celebrity betting portal FlashBitch, is first to report the celebrity betting market for the ITV reality TV series I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ is now open.Partners and Coral.co.uk opened the betting market on the afternoon of Friday 24th October 2014. The list of celebrities taking part in the show, which has swiftly become one of the most …
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Sports betting operator Gala Coral and betting exchange Betfair is voiding bets on a football match after being notified that the event did not take place. The betting operators had taken wagers on a friendly match between Spain’s Ponferradina SD and Freamunde of Portugal. Ponferradina had withdrawn from the fixture and had been replaced by another football team who played …
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UK sports betting operator,Coral announced its biggest ever football trading offer: A guarantee to offer the top price on every team to win the top four divisions in England, the top two Scottish leagues and the big four European leagues (Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga). Coral will match or better the top price on every team across …
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