A decision on a successor to Richard Hills as retained jockey to owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum is expected to be made soon.

WHOEVER said gambling was a fool’s game must be feeling slightly red-faced right now.

Sports betting firm Betfair was valued at £1.4bn (€1.6m) on its stock market debut today.

CASAMENTO has been supplemented for the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Online sports betting firm Betfair today fired the starting gun on a flotation expected to value the firm at around £1.5bn (€1.8bn).

As widely expected, Michael Owen is to team up with trainer Tom Dascombe at the Manchester United star’s Manor House Stables in Cheshire.

Forgotten horse of the season Winker Watson is still on course to make his eventual return to the track in next week’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Connections of Natagora are growing in confidence ahead of her bid for glory in the stanjamesuk.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday week.

A BUSINESS studies student from Mallow, Co Cork, yesterday scooped €150,000, the biggest prize at a €1,000 freeze-out three-day poker tournament in Dublin.

THE chips will be down as nine poker players battle it out for €500,000 in Dublin tomorrow.

Online betting exchange Betfair could be set for a stock market flutter that would land its co-founders more than £100m (€144m) each, it was reported today.

Andrew Black’s Betfair.com has been a huge hit in Ireland, says David Clerkin.

Andrew Black reports the room is far from the opulence you might expect from royal sleeping quarters.