Cheltenham Festival Markets React to Dublin Racing Festival

Cheltenham Festival Markets React to Dublin Racing Festival

With the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown and the Scottish Festival Trials at Musselburgh providing plenty of drama, the horse racing world is now fixated on the Cotswolds. The results have caused a flurry of movement in the ante-post markets as we edge closer to March. Those monitoring the best online betting sites in UK will have noted several horses shortening significantly in price. Rather than a quiet weekend of consolidation, the act…

Gambling activity down 3% around Cheltenham Festival

Gambling activity declined by over €1.2m or 3% year-on-year during the four-week period around this year's Cheltenham Festival, according to PTSB. The research uses data from PTSB Gambling Block, the digital voluntary block introduced by the bank last year to stop customers making card transactions with gambling merchants. Over 6,000 customers have activated the app tool since its launch last July, and 74% have retained the block since, pointing…