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The big race of the Cheltenham Festival, The Gold Cup at 3.20pm on Friday, has Silviniaco Conti leading the way at 4/1 on our fixed odds prices.

However, if you want to bet without the favourite, we are industry best price on Djakadam 11/2, Many Clouds 6/1 and A.P. McCoy's mount Carlingford Lough 17/2.

For a top three place finish we are industry best price Djakadam 2/1, Many Clouds 9/4, Coneygree 5/2, Carlingford Lough 11/4 and Road to Riches 11/4.

For our horse racing spread betting markets, we have now added new Binary Markets where each horse is given a spread based on the market making up at 100 if the horse wins or 0 if it doesn't.



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After Chelsea crashed out to PSG in the Champions League in midweek, we’ve gone industry best price Costa 4/1, Drogba 11/2, Oscar 17/2, Fabregas 12/1 and Willian 14/1 on our first goalscorer fixed odds prices v Southampton on Sunday.
 

Elsewhere, the race for the top four hots up with Arsenal (4/11) hosting West Ham (15/2) on Saturday while on Sunday it’s Man United (5/6) v Tottenham (3/1) and Swansea (3/1) v Liverpool (19/20).
 

As ever we’ll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on all Premier League and La Liga games as well as selected matches across other global leagues with Cash Out and Coupon functionality available on both our desktop and mobile sites. 



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It's the first race of the new F1 season on Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix from Melbourne at 5am UK-time.

The two Mercedes drivers look set to once again dominate with Lewis Hamilton even money to start his campaign with a win and Nico Rosberg 14/1.

As for the outright, long-term betting our spread betting Driver Season Points predictions have Hamilton on 337 – 347 (last year he ended on 384) and Rosberg 307 – 317 (last year he ended on 317). Mercedes' Constructor Season Points quote is 642 – 662 (last year 701).




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The Six Nations is back with Wales v Ireland kicking things off from the Millennium Stadium at 2.30pm on Saturday.

Our traders have Ireland the slight favourites, despite being away from home, at 5/6 with the hosts even money, the draw 16/1 and our spread betting Points Supremacy price Ireland/Wales (h) 0 – 3.

At 5pm England host Scotland at Twickenham. Although the visitors are bottom with three defeats from three, performances have perhaps not been as bad as the results suggest. Even so England are strong 1/16 favourites, Scotland are 8/1, the draw 28/1 and our Points Supremacy England/Scotland 16 – 19.

On Sunday it's Italy v France at 3pm with Italy 11/5, France 4/11, the draw 20/1 and our Points Supremacy France/Italy (h) 5 – 8.

We'll also have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on the Super Rugby plus selected Super League and NRL rugby league matches.




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England round off the group stages with a clash against Bangladesh in the early hours of Friday morning UK-time but play only for pride after an embarrassing showing in the Cricket World Cup.

If you fancy the minnows to pile further misery on Eoin Morgan's men they are available at 6/1 (England are 1/10) while our spread betting Supremacy price is England/Afghanistan 67 – 77.

Elsewhere we'll have live spread betting and fixed odds prices on Bangladesh v New Zealand, India v Zimbabwe, Australia v Scotland, West Indies v UAE and Pakistan v Ireland before the competition moves to the quarter-final stages from Wednesday next week.




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The big guns are in action for the first of nine Tour Masters 1000 events this season – the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, USA.

Brit Heather Watson is already through to the second round where she will face Camila Giorgi after beating Julia Goerges 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.

We'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices on selected matches from the men's and women's side of the draw including Rogers v Flipkens, Hantuchova v Koukalova, Smyczek v Becker and Fish v Harrison all tonight.




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Our live golf betting takes in the Valspar Championship on the PGA Tour and the Tshwane Open on the European Tour.

Adam Scott leads the betting in the former at 7/1 ahead of Henrik Stenson at 9/1, Jim Furyk at 14/1 and Jordan Spieth at 22/1.

We also have long-term fixed odds and spread betting prices available for some of the forthcoming majors.

For the Masters, McIlroy is the 5/1 favourite ahead of Bubba Watson at 10/1, Adam Scott and Jason Day, both 12/1, Jordan Spieth 16/1, Dustin Johnson 18/1 and Phil Mickelson 22/1.




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The Conservatives have gained a small amount of ground as the parties reveal more on their policies ahead of the May 7th General Election.

The Conservatives' number of predicted seats is up from 281 – 287 to 285 - 291, Labour's down from 273 – 279 to 269 - 275, the SNP's up to 39 - 42, Lib Dems down to 23.5 – 26.5 and UKIP static at 5 – 7.

Our fixed odds prices for the most seats are Conservatives at 40/85, Labour 7/4, UKIP 100/1 and Lib Dems 500/1.

In terms of overall majority, No Overall Majority is 1/5, Conservative Majority 9/2, Labour Majority 14/1, UKIP Majority 100/1 and Lib Dem Majority 500/1.




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