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Two for Saturday from David Cormack

Extremely testing conditions are likely to be in store for runners at both Doncaster and Newbury on Saturday. The Group 1 Vertem Futurity is the feature race at Doncaster. Mogul is a very short-priced favourite but it looks a race to avoid from a betting […]

Sam Hendry with Saturday’s best football bets

Manchester City vs Watford – Saturday 3pm Watford are a ridiculous price of 20/1 to win which some weeks may be tempting to stick a quid on purely for the hell of it, but the prospect of City losing twice in a row to bottom […]

Sam Hendry runs the rule over the Premier League season

Sam Hendry runs the rule over the Premier League season After a frantic deadline day which at least left supporters in north London happy, the time for talk is over and it’s time for the real action to begin. Some sides will be happier than […]

Sam Hendry with his best bets for the FA Cup final

Manchester City vs Watford – Saturday 3pm Manchester City can become the first team in English football history to win a domestic treble with victory over Watford in the 138th FA Cup final. Despite clinching a second straight Premier League title on Sunday, City have […]

Sam Hendry with the weekend’s best football bets

Bournemouth vs Tottenham Hotspur – Saturday 12.30pm Bournemouth have gone five games without recording a home win in the Premier League while Spurs have gone the same number without winning on the road, so you’d think something has to give here. The refusal – or […]

Book review – ‘A Wasted Life’ by Alan Potts

I guess, at one time or another, most of us with an interest in betting on racehorses have wondered whether we could ever actually abandon the humdrum of our working lives to make a living from betting alone. Occasional TRF contributor Alan Potts did just […]

Sam Hendry previews this weekend’s FA Cup matches

Swansea vs Manchester City – Saturday 5.20pm Having strolled through to the Champions League quarter finals with a 7-0 hammering of Schalke, Man City should have similarly little trouble in brushing aside Swansea and keeping their hopes of a historic quadruple alive. The 2011 winners […]

Sam Hendry with the weekend’s best football bets

Fulham vs Manchester United – Saturday 12.30pm Even a price of 4/6 (general) seems rather generous for a Man United side in this kind of form going up against one of the favourites for relegation. Fulham’s 4-2 win over Brighton 10 days ago gave them […]