Horse Racing Action

France officially opened up its online gaming market on Tuesday, granting 17 licences to 11 operators three days before the start of the soccer World Cup in South Africa.

It\’s been a long time coming - 471 years in fact - but punters in France will now be able to gamble on almost anything they like, including on the 2010 South Africa World Cup.

It seems that every other advert on Sky Sports at the moment is for gambling. There is an array of ways that punters can lose their money, with one commercial bizarrely ending in fits of laughter as two protagonists fail to comprehend just what they have bet on. Bookies used to deal almost exclusively with horse and dog racing. Now new technologies provide a wider range of sports to bet on, and …

IF GREYHOUND racing was lotto on legs, Vinny Fitzpatrick felt a Race Night was not only more unpredictable, it was bordering on the illogical. “It’s like trying to pick your nose wearing boxing gloves. There’s no sense in it,” he muttered to himself as he made his way to the bar at Clontarf Lawn Tennis Club.

So I was looking at the calendar the other day, and couldn\’t help noticing that I\’m now in my 30s. I was as shocked as you are.

Are you in line for your first taste of live racing when Goodwood invites thousands of people through its gates for its season-opening meeting on Saturday?

BALTIMORE — It’s time to get your Preak on! Two weeks after he won the roses with a 21/2-length victory in the Kentucky Derby, Super Saver guns for the black-eyed Susans in today’s 135th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. If the rangy bay son of Maria’s Mon, trained…

Rodeo action returns to downtown Las Vegas Thursday night with the 75th Elks Helldorado. The rodeo has been a fixture in Las Vegas for much of its history, while other sports – such as Jai Alai – have come and gone.

Rodeo action returns to downtown Las Vegas Thursday night with the 75th Elks Helldorado. The rodeo has been a fixture in Las Vegas for much of its history, while other sports – such as Jai Alai – have come and gone.

Fairgoers can milk a real cow, sample Illinois wine, take in a high dive show and visit the Illinois Fire Museum, the nation\’s interactive fire safety and antique exhibit. Grandstand artists are Lady Antebellum, Shinedown, Mercy Me, Blake Shelton, Cheap Trick, Selena Gomez and Darius Rucker.