Sitting Down With The Bookies: NCAAB

It’s our favourite time of the week here at SportsBettingTips.org – that time where we sit down, relax and chat with the online sportsbook Sports Interaction If you’re new here – be sure to read through our sports betting blog. In there, we have all of the previous chats with a sportsbook and we get … Read more

The Buffalo Braves

The Buffalo Braves were a professional basketball team that played in the NBA between 1970 and 1978. The team was based at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and they wore a black, white, orange and Columbus blue strip. The franchise is still in existence today in the form of the Los Angeles Clippers. How did the … Read more

The New Orleans Jazz

Professional basketball outfit New Jersey Jazz played in the NBA from 1974 to 1979. They are predecessors to the Utah Jazz who are based in Salt Lake City today. The team’s home games were played at the Loyola University Fieldhouse for the first season and then at the Louisiana Superdome from the second season onwards. … Read more

The Queen Mother Champion Chase: What It is, History, Analysis

The feature race, as usual, on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival, is the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the premier event of the season for the best 2-mile chasers, and the culmination of a hard, challenging season for connections. It is a 2-mile chase open to horses aged five years or older, and it is run over Cheltenham’s Old Course, with 12 fences standing in the way of the competitors and the winning post. All horses must carry 11st 10lbs, with the exception of mares, which carry 11st 3lbs. The race has been known as the Queen Mother Champion Chase since 1980, the year of the Queen Mother’s birthday. The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth was known as an avid follower of horse racing, so it was seen as a fitting tribute that one of horse racing’s top races was named after her. Prior to this, it was simply known as the National Hunt Two-Mile Champion Chase – a name that does exactly what it says on the tin!

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The Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle: What It Is, History, Analysis

The Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle is one of the newer races to take place at the Cheltenham Festival. It was initially known as the Aldsworth Hurdle and the first running was in 1971, a race won by Midsprite. The 2 mile 5 furlong race is run round Cheltenham’s Old Course, and is open to novice hurdlers four years and older. It is a non-handicap race, so horses five years and older have to carry 11st 7lbs, while four-year-olds have to go round with 10st 12lbs. Fillies also get a 7lbs allowance. For most horse racing fans, the race will be best known as the Sun Alliance Novices’ Hurdle, which continued until 2006. It is the first race to take place on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival.

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