Betfred is sponsoring this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup

Cheltenham – A Beginners Guide

A major highlight of the UK and Irish National Hunt (jump racing) season, the Cheltenham Festival is an annual four-day championship dating all the way back to 1860.

  • The festival features a total of 27 races including 14 chases, 12 hurdle races and 1 flat, or bumper, race.
  • Cheltenham takes place every March and almost always coincides with St. Patrick’s Day, making it a very popular choice with Irish visitors and Guinness drinkers!
  • Cheltenham’s official title is the National Hunt Meeting, going all the way back to 1860 when the National Hunt Chase was held at Market Harborough.
  • The Betfred Gold Cup is the undoubted jewel in Cheltenham’s crown and was first established in 1924.
  • For the vast majority of its history Cheltenham has been a three-day long festival, however all this changed in 2005 with the introduction of a fourth day; meaning there would be one championship race on each day, with the Gold Cup taking place on the final day of the event.

Betfred have been offering superb value and offers on this four-day championship year in year out and will be taking things to another level this year with more free bets, industry leading prices and special offers than ever before!

Betfred are delighted to sponsor this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup and we’re going all out with a string of lucrative offers for you!

We’ll be releasing details of more and more offers in the coming weeks that will have our players flocking back in droves as Cheltenham approaches!

  • New players at Betfred Games already get treated to a £25 Welcome Bonus and to mark the start of Cheltenham we’re throwing in a completely free £5 bet so they can have a punt on whatever takes their fancy at the Festival !
  • The offer begins on March 5th and finishes on the 16th to coincide with the last day of Cheltenham!
  • That’s a £25 Bonus for our players to spend across our fantastic selection of games and a fiver to have a punt on whatever takes their fancy at Cheltenham!

5 Free Spins Every Day – No wager requirements – Keep your winnings!

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Introducing Mr Green’s Christmas Advent Calendar, where behind each flap you will find 5 free spins in one of his favourite games. A different game each day and the free spins are only available for two hours, so make sure to visit the Mr Green Christmas Calendar daily to check where and when to find your free spins. The calendar holds a total of 120 free spins, now that’s much better than some pieces of chocolate! With some luck you can do a Charlie and get your own factory full of the stuff.

How to get your free spins

The Free spins will be available for 2 hours between 19:00 and 23:59, the exact time and on which game is announced daily on the Mr Green Christmas site. The freespins are available to depositing friends at Mr Green. New and existing friends who have not deposited yet will be made eligible within 24 hours of their first deposit. The free spins have no wagering requirements.

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The Christmas Advent Calendar is only valid for deposit players in UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany and Austria.

Moneybookers announces new payment solution for United Kingdom

New payment solution for United Kingdom

Moneybookers ( www.moneybookers.com ) added a brand new option for all users from United Kingdom.

It is called Online Bank Transfer and it offers instant transfers from your bank account.

This new method supports HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and other major banks in United Kingdom.

About Skrill

Skrill (The future of Moneybookers) is a leading online payments and Digital Wallet service with over nineteen million account holders. The simple DigitalWallet enables any client to make online payments conveniently, securely and economically. Without revealing personalfinancial data, clients can send and receive money transfers using just an email address.

Skrill’s worldwide payment network o-ers businesses access to over 100 payment options in over 200 countries and territories, through just one integration. Today more than 90,000 merchants use Skrill’s payments service, including global partners such as eBay.com, Skype and Thomas Cook.

The Skrill group is headquartered in London, UK. The group companies Moneybookers Ltd. and Moneybookers USA Inc. are regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and US state regulators. In February 2010, The Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 league table ranked it as the Number 1 fastest growing, private equity-backed company in the UK based on profits. This followed the September 2009 naming in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table as the sixth fastest growing technology company in the UK based on sales growth. Along with recognition for the quality management, international expansion and growth trategy with two awards at the 2009 UK Media Momentum Awards.

William Hill Becomes Title Sponsor Of The Scottish Cup

London – PRESS RELEASEWilliam Hill, the UK’s No.1 bookmaker, has signed a seven-figure deal with the Scottish FA to become the title sponsor of the Scottish Cup.

The three-year partnership means the famous cup competition will be renamed the William Hill Scottish Cup.

William Hill, which operates over 300 betting shops in Scotland and a total of 2364 across the UK and Ireland, is already the official betting partner of the Scottish Premier League. The Scottish Cup sponsorship deal reaffirms their strong association with Scottish football. The agreement will also allow the bookmaker to showcase its online, mobile and retail products to Scottish football fans the length and breadth of the country.

The William Hill Scottish Cup first round draw will take place in Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries Shopping Centre on Monday, August 29, at 10am. The draw will be conducted by last year’s victorious captain, Celtic’s Scott Brown, the Scottish FA President, Campbell Ogilvie, and Kristof Fahy, William Hill’s Group Brand and Marketing Director.

Stewart Regan, Scottish FA Chief Executive, said: “We are proud to have a leading brand like William Hill as sponsor of the Scottish Cup for the next three seasons. The new 2011/12 William Hill Scottish Cup begins in just a few weeks’ time and with the competition now securing a new sponsor, we can now look forward another exciting season ahead.”

 

Gareth Davis, Chairman of William Hill PLC, said: “It seems fitting for the most established and biggest bookmaker in Scotland to be attached to the oldest Association trophy in world football and we at William Hill consider it an honour to be able to put our name to the Scottish Cup.”

About William Hill

The London Stock Exchange listed bookmaker – William Hill offers betting in shops, online, telephone, and mobile. Founded in 1934, William Hill has grown to become the UK’s largest bookmaker with more than 15,000 employees and around 2,350 betting shops in UK and Ireland.

Their online site offers over 500,000 betting markets every week – including the largest range of in-play markets in the industry. These markets and several chart topping Android and iPhone apps can also be accessed via William Hill’s brand new mobile site mobile.williamhill.com

William Hill, who are also the largest bookmaker in Scotland, are no strangers to sponsorship in the country. The firm is official betting partners of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) and also sponsors Scotland’s richest horse race – the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup.

For further information:

Tony Kenny, Public Relations, William Hill – tkenny@williamhill.co.uk or 07714126514

Mark Snell, Communications Executive, Scottish FA – mark.snell@scottishfa.co.uk or 07904 604943