Toals Bookmakers are the new sponsors of the prestigious Ulster National which will be run at County Down venue Downpatrick on Wednesday, March 3.
The race is one of the most popular races in the Northern Ireland calendar and attracts runners from all the top stables. And with total prize money of 25,000, it’s the richest race held at this historic venue.
In addition to the prize money, the bookmakers are also offering a staggering bonus of #50,000 to be shared between the owner and trainer if the winning horse goes on to win the Irish National at Fairyhouse in April.
Ballytrim, trained by Irish Champion Trainer Willie Mullins, won the race in 2009. This year the stable is likely to be represented by Palace Morano, a three time Hurdle winner.
Gary Toal, Managing Director of Toals Bookmakers, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be connected with the Ulster National and we believe that the bonus on offer will attract a very competitive field and will provide a lively betting medium for our shop customers.
“We have sponsored a day’s racing at Downpatrick for a number of years and we will be sponsoring the whole card at the meeting On to this week’s football, folks, and some cracking matches to look forward to with the all-Manchester Carling Cup semi-final second leg the main highlight of the week and all you value-seeking punters could do well to latch on to Man City at 4/1.
Our midweek quad is LIVERPOOL (4/6) to win at Wolves and Owen Coyle’s BOLTON (1/1) can grab a win over his old club Burnley.
WEST HAM (7/4) can win their vital relegation game at Portsmouth while stuttering SPURS (4/6) should get back to winning ways at the expense of Fulham.
Baby-faced William Buick is 25/1 with Sky Bet to be crowned Champion Flat Jockey next flat turf season following the shock news of his appointment as stable jockey to John Gosden.
The rising star of the weighing room is 9/2 to make a dream start to his new job by riding a Classic winner in 2010 and is odds-on at 5/6 to boot home 100 winners or more.
His old trainer/mentor Ian Balding backed young Buick to be champion jockey before 2020 at massive odds of 500/1.
28 comments:
get your lot on utd to win the carling cup. They are still 7/4. Thay are a shorter price to beat city and if they do beat city (which i fancy) then they will win it no harm to Villa. I aint a utd man, just betting with my head for a change.
anyone can feel free to tear my opinion to pieces
johnnyboy
City will beat them tomorrow night Johnny - this a bad, bad Man Utd team and if Rooney gets injured they are up shitty creek without a paddle.
Chelsea look an outstanding bet at 1/1 to take PL title as I expect Arsenal to falter and Utd are simply not good enough.
any tips for today PG?
Jakers
agree johnny boy
great price
city 7/2 tomorrow night
utd will destroy them
as for jakers opinion of this being a BAD BAD MAN UTD TEAM.
says a lot for the rest of the teams if utd are top of the league.
The league never lies.
mackers
says a lot for the best league in the world (hmmmm) or is that the British Media hype that brain washes the average brit fan ? as RAFA says
FACT
best league in the world? La Liga
FACT
best team in the world? Barcelona
thank God I support Glentoran
Jakers
id say united will be just fine this year!
not bad sitting top of league without central defensive partnership all year.
altho chelsea do look good at the minute, its only january and there is still a lot of football to play.
quad for tonight
west brom
nottm forest
leeds
norwich
keep the red flag flying high
Has this guy got a point?
This is to everyone that knows me. I have stopped watching football. I swear
to fuck I will never watch football ever again. Even if there’s four feet of
snow outside and the pub’s closed and my TV’s broken and can only show one
channel and it’s the league leaders playing their closest rivals. I will
turn it off and do a thousand-piece jigsaw with three bits missing. If you
catch me watching football, or talking about football, you have my
permission to kill me with a spoon. It will take a long time and I will die
in great pain, but you are allowed to do it. Hand this page to the police
and you will get off, I promise.
I have stopped watching football for no other reason that it is completely
fucking shite. I swear to God I would rather stick my face in a pan of
boiling chip fat than waste another two hours of my life on it. This
revelation came to me the other day while I was watching a match and there
was a subsitution. The play was held up while the kit man helped the
substitute take a gold chain from round his neck. It took two minutes.
it didn't stop there:-
Why
in the name of sweet Jesus Christ does some overpaid moron think it’s okay
to come and sit on the sub’s bench wearing a fucking chain around his neck?
He’s just been in the changing room getting ready to play football. It
happens ALL THE BASTARDING TIME. They have to be helped take off wedding
rings, diamond rings, earrings, cock rings, bracelets, tongue studs, nipple
clamps. If you can’t take off your tracksuit and come straight on then fuck
off back to whatever slum comprehensive let you kick a ball against a wall
for six hours a day because you couldn’t spell your own name.
Then there’s tattoos. Not just Mum Loves Dad shite, but full-colour,
all-over tats that would have a 30-stone Maori warlord shaking his head in
disbelief. And neck tattoos. And thigh tattoos. Any bit of the body, in
fact, that sticks out from the shirt or shorts so that we can all see it and
think you’re a bad boy living on da edge. You fucking child, you brain-dead,
witless, semi-literate buffoon. Chinese? Roman numerals? Your form teacher
refused to put you through GCSE English because you can’t read the label on
your Lucozade Sport bottle. And yet you’re putting your child’s date of
birth on your arm in Roman numerals and telling your tarty wife you’ve still
got a hard-on for her across the back of your neck in shagging Mandarin. The
fat baldy bloke in the tattoo parlour might as well have written ‘I am a
knuckle-trailing baboon’ for all you fucking know.
I am not watching football any more because footballers can’t even kick the
ball. Snooker players can send a tiny white ball 24 feet and put it within
an inch of the same spot every time. 90-year-old codgers can roll a ball 100
feet and get it within a foot of the jack. But your average dead-ball
specialist in the Premierfuckingship can’t hit a corner 30 feet without
hitting that slack-jawed human lamppost whose only job is to stand at the
near post. Stick your kangarooskin Adidas Predators and your ostrichskin
Nike Tiempos up your baking bowl, you Toblerone-footed imbecile.
And finally (for now) there’s foreign referees. Don’t get me wrong, come the
revolution all referees will be put up against the wall, including the
English, the Irish, the Scots and the Welsh because I can’t stand their fat
thighs or the stupid self-satisfied prance they do when they blow up for a
foul; I can’t stand the way they’ve got agents, the way they’ve started
doing their hair in a David Beckham fin and the way they’re starting to get
younger than me. But these Swedes and Eyeties and Krauts and Pedros all do
that disapproving eyes thing when a British player complains after they give
another free kick for a challenge that wouldn’t get punished on Strictly
Come Dancing. I wouldn’t mind, but these whistling posers have been up all
night doing coke on the bellies of east European hookers supplied by
whatever Euro gas billionaire has paid for their services, and they’re going
home with a Rolex the size of a dinner plate.
And then at half-time when we’re sitting thinking about throwing the rope up
and wondering why in the name of sweet fuck we’ve just sat through 45 more
minutes of 0-0 bollocks, we’ve to sit and listen to some has-been telling a
never-was why the goal was offside because the play hadn’t gone into the
second phase. And some human chimp with great tufts of black hair shooting
out of the arm of his suit down the back of his hands smiles like your
creepy uncle and then tells you to make sure and come back after ten more
minutes of ads which you’re being charged 40 quid a fucking month to watch.
Well, no more. Rupert, you have been warned, you fucking cryogenically
preserved Aussie mutant. The worm is turning. Slowly, like Terry Butcher
against Diego Maradona in the Estadio Azteca, but it’s turning.
anyone want to buy a gold chain?
sammy
leeds
forest
southampton
norwich
sheff utd
the 5 on form teams tonight £10 gets you £400 odd back
petrot chelly (good to be back lads)
very good rant!
Wednesday NAG: Gordonsville 2:40 NOVICES HURDLE 2m 0f 0y (MUSS)
sir winston 2.20 huntington today
not sure of prices or anything guy in work got a tip
keep the red flag flying high
9/4
come on tevez tonight
lets heap more misery on rudolf and the yanks.bankrupcy is just around the corner for them the way they are going.
now that would be fun.
utd in administration.
sammy lee
sammy are u a scouser?
anyone know the price of cliftonville for the league now?
if they win their match in hand they go top and have the easiest run in of all the teams
cannot into bookmakers sites in our work to check the price
jimmy.
great rant which would be a hell of a lot funnier if it wasnt so true.
Had bad luck last week with my tevez 1st goal/city 2-1 combo at 55s so tonight its Rooney 1st goal/utd 2-1 at a disappointing 22s. I know its a related bet and the prices on the score depend on the price of the teams, but a 33pt difference in the 2 bets above is taking the piss IMO
johnnyboy
OSASUNA 1/1
BLACKBURN 1/1
HEARTS 1/1
DUNDEE UTD 4/6
UTD
UTD
UTD
UTD
UTD
And Guess what?
The Fort Bar Lads buy the paper last night and surprise surprise Gerard"Malcolm Brodie"Mulhern yet again tips Arsenal to beat the champions.
Time to change the record maybe and stop this nonsense that against every big team you tip utd to lose or draw.
fort bar lads
hahahahahahahahaha
so much for us being finished
second in league
final carling cup
last 16 champions league
what a game!
gotta feel for bellamy tho!
do u fcuk ! lol
keep the red flag flying high
pg is a bit biased when it comes to man u playing the big teams
just read his column
de ja view i hear you all say
bit boring reading the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN every time they play arsenal or chelsea tho.
Being a pool man this is going to kill me saying this..but great match last night
Sammy Lee
thats cause your not used to watching good football sammy!
keep the red flag flying high
5 european cup wins i have watched for us
sammy
any bloggers get a price for cliftonville yet for the league?
cliftonville are 6/1 in paddy powers
amazing price
definately worth a tenner after looking at their run in
joey t
Big Zeb and Golden Silver on course for Tied Cottage clash At Punchestown
Sunday’s Grade 2 Punchestown Pavilion Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown is set to be a thriller with Big Zeb and Golden Silver preparing to go head to head in the Cheltenham Trial Day feature race.
Trainer Colm Murphy would like to avoid a repeat of last years running when Big Zeb came to grief two out while travelling very well. Commenting on Big Zeb’s preparations Murphy said “He seems to be in good form. We schooled him this morning and that went well and we will pop him over a couple more before Sunday”. When asked if there were any concerns on ground the trainer stated “The ground will not be ideal and I hope it dries out a bit as the Tied Cottage will be a big indicator for our Cheltenham plans”.
In contrast Willie Mullins trainer of Big Zeb’s main rival Golden Silver said “Golden Silver has performed on heavy ground in the past and it is not a concern – he will definitely run on Sunday. I have no decisions made regarding riders. We will have to see what else runs that day”.
Traditionally the Tied Cottage chase was the prep race for the great Moscow Flyer and on Sunday the Grade 2 Novice Hurdle will be named in commemoration to him. Mikael D’Haguenet won the race last year and his trainer Willie Mullins will be represented by Morning Supreme in Sunday’s renewal. Like the Mullins entrant, Noel Meade’s Hollo Ladies is also bidding for a hat trick in the Grade 2 event with the major threats coming from the Dessie Hughes Stonemaster and Mouse Morris’s Shane Rock who are both recent winners. .
The eight race card on Sunday will get underway at 12.55pm with the spectator favourite Glenfarclas P.P. Hogan Memorial Cross Country Steeplechase. Enda Bolger, who modestly confirms to have won the race “a couple of times”, holds six of the 21 entries. Heads On The Ground, Freneys Well and Nelson’s Spice lead the effort with Proud to Present, Zest For Life and Dream Home completing the Bolger trained team. Recent Punchestown winner Battlefront and Aintree Grand National winner Silver Birch appear to be the main competition.
Commenting on who will ride what horse Bolger said “Well with Nina out for the next 3 weeks I have arranged for her brother Paul to step in – not a bad substitute! JT (McNamara) will have the first call and then Paul, after that the others will be ridden by the staff from the yard. They work very hard, particularly during the recent cold spell, and are entitled to take the opportunity”.
Sunday marks the end of the Punchestown Festival January promotion whereby all general admission tickets purchased were automatically upgraded to the reserved enclosure Free of charge. Visit www.punchestown.com for further information on this promotion.
First race at Punchestown on Cheltenham Trial Day Sunday 31st January 12.55pm. Eight Race card. Admission €18 – Students and Senior Citizens €12.
5 european cups!
impressive!
when was the last one?
when was the last trophy you won actually?
in rafa we trust
united arsenal game should be good this week
keep the red flag flying high
5 times my son 5 times
read and weap
come back when you win 5 european cups
sammy l
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