oddschecker Betting Show

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding to preview day three at Royal Ascot, with the Ascot Gold Cup taking centre stage at 4.20 as the combination of Stradivarius and Frankie Dettori look to make it a fourth win in the race. The day kicks off with the Norfolk Stakes, Walbank is a best price of 2/1 favourite to win the Group 2 race with Andy having been keen on him for quite a while, tipping him up...

George Elek is once again joined by Andy Holding and Johnny Ward to look ahead to Wednesday's card at Royal Ascot. The action kicks off with the Queen Mary Stakes. Wesley Ward has raved about his runner Love Reigns in this one but our panel are sceptical about his qualities and look to take on the favourite as well as the second favourite. The day's Group 1 is the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at 16.20...

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding and Johnny Ward to preview the first day of Royal Ascot 2022. The week kicks off with Baaeed a massive favourite in the Queen Anne Stakes. Andy Holding describes it as potentially the second procession of the week. The second Group 1 of the day is the King's Stand Stakes run over five furlongs with Golden Pal the favourite at a best price of 9/4. Andy is looki...

Host Danny Archer is joined by oddschecker columnist Andy Holding and racing broadcaster Ed Quigley to preview The Epsom Derby Festival including the Coronation Cup and The Oaks on Friday and of course Derby Day’s card. Last year saw Adayar take the honours in the world’s greatest Flat race with 2022 favourite Desert Crown much fancied and currently as short as 6/4 in the betting to win for Sir Mi...

The second major of the year is upon us and George Elek is joined by Niall Lyons to preview this week's USPGA Championship at Southern Hills in Oklahoma. After a whirlwind 2022 and a first major success at Augusta, Scottie Scheffler heads the betting once more with most bookmakers, although he's almost neck-and-neck in the books with Jon Rahm, who bids to win his second major after success at last...

With the flat season in full swing, George Elek is joined by Andy Holding to give us his 12 horses to follow for the season. Most horses have now had at least one run this season, and Andy has a mixture of sprinters, middle distance horses and some promising two year old's to talk about on this week's episode of the Betting Show. As well as taking a look at the horses themselves, Andy talks us thr...

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding to preview Saturday's card at Ascot with the wide open Tote Victoria Cup the highlight on the card at 16:05. The day's action kicks off at 13:45 with again, a wide open looking handicap. At the time of writing 17 are declared with Flyin Solo and Screaming Petrus heading up the early market at 6/1.   Next up it's the Buckhounds Stakes, after withdrawi...

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding to preview Saturday's cards at Newmarket ahead of the 1000 and 2000 Guineas. The guys kick off the Fillies' and Mares' race at 1.15 on Saturday, all eyes will be on odds-on favourite Flotus in this one who Andy thinks could go on to run in the Commonwealth Cup. He's keen on her to win the opener. The Heritage Handicap is covered which looks a really open looki...

George Elek is once again joined by Ed Quigley and Johnny Ward to preview days four and fiveof the Punchestown Festival. We kick off with Ed giving his choice for the Novice Handicap Chase on Friday, his biggest fancy on the penultimate day's card. Next up the panel talk through the Mares' Chase with Ed and Johnny both strong on Elimay. As well as talking through the remainder on Friday's card, th...

George Elek is joined by Ed Quigley and Johnny Ward to preview day three of the Punchestown Festival. Ed gives his thoughts on the festival as a whole and talks about how he treads carefully with the end of season meeting. The panel look back at the opening day's action and the performances of Energumene, Bob Olinger and Sir Gerhard. On day three at the festival the opener is a 28 runner handicap...

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding and Johnny Ward to preview day two of the Punchestown Festival. Following on from the three Grade 1 races on the opening day, Wednesday sees another three Grade 1s in the eight race card. The first of those takes place at 17:20 with the Irish Mirror Novice Hurdle. An open looking contest with The Nice Guy the current 2/1 favourite, closely followed by both Min...

George Elek is joined by Andy Holding and Johnny Ward to preview day one of the Punchestown Festival. The action gets underway on Tuesday with three grade ones on the opening day including the feature race - the William Hill Champion Chase. Energumene heads the betting with Chacun Pour Soi, Envoi Allen, Andy Dufresne and Captain Guinness completing the line up. The festival kicks off with the Mare...

Host George Elek is joined by former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton, boxing expert Josh Wright and tipster Peter Morris to preview the heavyweight clash at Wembley Stadium as Tyson Fury defends the lineal heavyweight championship along with his WBC belt against Dillian Whyte. Parimatch have a very special sign up offer for new customers ahead of the fight. They’re offering 30/1 for Tyson...

George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding and racing broadcaster Johnny Ward to look ahead to day three of the Grand National Festival at Aintree. They give their preview and tips for all seven races on the card including the feature race of the festival, the Grand National. The panel talk through Satuday's card which kicks off with the Grade 3 Handicap Hurdle where Winter Fog head...

George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding and racing broadcaster Rory Delargy to look ahead to day two of the Grand National Festival at Aintree. They give their preview and tips for all seven races on the card. They talk through Friday's card which kicks off with the Aintree Handicap Hurdle where Langer Dan will be looking to put his Cheltenham disappointment behind him. Next up i...

George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding and racing broadcaster Rory Delargy to look ahead to day one of the Grand National Festival at Aintree. They talk through Thursday's card which kicks off with the Grade One Novices' Chase, War Lord currently heading the betting. There are two more Grade Ones on the opening day including the Juvenile Hurdle which sees Pied Piper go head-to-h...

The 86th edition of the Masters arrives at Augusta this week, with Jon Rahm the slight pre-tournament favourite just ahead of Justin Thomas and new world number 1, Scottie Scheffler. Host George Elek is joined by oddschecker golf tipster Niall Lyons, who has five selections for this week's tournament, ranging between odds of 14/1 and 125/1. Niall is 152pts in profit with his selections for 2022, a...

Host George Elek is joined by oddschecker's Andy Holding and racing journalist Ed Quigley to look ahead to the weekend's racing including the Scottish Grand National and a good looking card at Newbury. Andy and Ed give their picks for all 8 of this Saturday's ITV races including the Grade 2 Mares' Novices' Hurdle at Newbury, and the 150k Scottish Grand National at Ayr. 24 have been declared for th...

Host George Elek is joined by oddschecker's Andy Holding and racing journalist Johnny Ward to look back at the Cheltenham Festival and have an early look at the Ante Post betting ahead of 2023's festival Andy and Johnny discuss the performances of Constitution Hill, Honeysuckle, Galopin Des Champs, Shiskhkin, A Plus Tard and more. Will Constitution Hill take on Honeysuckle in the near future, if t...

In the final episode of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2022 previews host George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding, racing broadcaster Rory Delargy and 888sport ambassador Barry Geraghty to discuss the fourth day of the Festival giving their expert tips and opinions on Gold Cup day including the Triumph Hurdle, the County Hurdle, the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, the Chelt...

In the third of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2022 previews, host George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding, racing broadcaster Rory Delargy and 888sport ambassador Barry Geraghty to discuss day three of the Festival giving their expert tips and opinions ahead of another huge day of racing including the Marsh Novices’ Chase, the Pertemps Network Final Handicap Hurdle, th...

In the second of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2022 previews, host George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding, racing broadcaster Rory Delargy and 888sport ambassador Barry Geraghty to discuss day two of the Festival giving their expert tips and opinions ahead of another huge day of racing including the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle, the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, the Coral Cup, th...

In the first of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2022 previews, host George Elek is joined by oddschecker tipster Andy Holding, racing broadcaster Rory Delargy and 888sport ambassador Barry Geraghty to discuss day one of the Festival giving their expert tips and opinions ahead of a huge day of racing including the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the Arkle Chase, the Ultima Handicap Chase, the Champion Hurd...

George Elek is joined by oddschecker's Andy Holding, racing journalist Johnny Ward and 888sport ambassador Barry Geraghty to preview the Cheltenham Festival 2022 from the Irish angle. Andy and Johnny come armed with five Irish horses to follow at the festival including ante-post tips and Barry Geraghty gives us his ante-post NAP. Cheltenham Festival 2022 is now just over a week away with anticipat...

Host George Elek is joined by racing broadcasters Rory Delargy and Ed Quigley to preview Saturday's action from Kempton and Newcastle. Saturday's card from Kempton features the £85,000 Coral Handicap Trophy Chase with Annsam and The Big Breakaway two of the favourites in the betting at present. Over at Newcastle the Eider Handicap Chase takes centre stage with 17 declared in a wide open contest. 8...