This Monday Victoria Pendleton will prove beyond doubts that she is truly the most successful female Olympian with her favorite ride with her long term partner Royal Etiquette heading to the event held at Ripon.

Pendleton had no good period after she finished eighth overall in a charity race that was held in Newbury las July. She is currently riding for the well known trainer Lawney Hill who takes charge of the Royal Etiquette who is aged 8.

Pendleton who is the current Olympic sprint cycling champion on two occasions is focused on taking charge of Foxhunter Chase come March at an event in Cheltenham. However, this Monday she will go head to head with other 14 beginners where Betfair has given flat handicap for all the participants.

According to Hill, the relationship between Victoria and Royal Etiquette is marvelous. She has been riding him for some time now and the two have known each other in and out. There is the aspect of confidentiality between the two and that the lessons learnt while working hand in hand with Yogi Breisner is that for an outstanding result by an armature in horse racing would be attributed by the relationship between the horse and the rider.

He continued to say that Victoria has a successful career for her motivation and dedication whereby everything she does has a psyched mentality and a unique work ethic and this has made her to be always outstanding. To the horse, Hill said that Royal Etiquette has improved his form drastically and people will watch and prove all this. This comes after he scooped the Leonna Mayor and Kirsty Milczarek awards and his main eye is on the lady jockey who he likes much. The reliability of the horse would give Victoria an easy time at the start to the finish and would clinch the glory.

Managing director James Hutchinson on the other had claimed that Victoria’s participation in Ripon has brought interests from several photographers and this brings the anticipated chance for the racecourse as well as racing in the exhibition of the true horse racing. He concluded by saying that they would initiate every possible measures to oversee their success.

Mary Ellen Buchanan Krakowski would have never imagined her reaching the 1,000 carrer points. This went on through her senior season while playing for the Providence College. She even recalls that moments before she struck the 1,000 points by his colleagues that in the history of the game, no woman has ever attained the 1,000 points in Rhode Island. It was not long for her to wait as in 1979 she achieved this fate. The Lakeland resident was amazed to be included in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2015.

She claimed that she couldn’t believe her ears after receiving the news. She claimed that it hit her like a lightening and she could feel the overpowering part of it. Being included in the hall of fame was astonishing to her and she was ready to live with the honor.

The inclusion ceremony that took place at the DCU Center in Massachusetts saw her being accompanied by her family, friends as well her former coaches. She was born and grew up in Bridgeport before she decided to move to Lakeland 16 years ago with her lovely husband.

She acquired a scholarship where she played for four years from 1975-1979 at the Providence Friars where she managed to achieve 10.9 points as well as 8.0 each game and was placed number 22 in the scoring list.

She claimed that her memories revolves a united team that she had back then and gives thank to the school that gave her a chance to study freely as well as being accorded with an opportunity to exploit her talent in the basketball game. It was them who gave her an appreciation for the game which she still engulfs to herself.

It was during her time that the Friars went on a 42-14 in two seasons and this success was attributed to her. According to former Friars coach Tim Gilbride who is currently the headman basketball coach at Bowdoin College (Maine), Krakowski a 6-foot-3 left handed was easy to coach and took everything at her disposal seriously and keenly.

Other members of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame includes basketball’s creator Dr. James Naismith, Geno Auriemma, Connecticut’s Ray Allen, Providence’s Rick Pitino, Rebecca Lobo and Massachusetts’ Julius Erving.

The recently announced deal that would see the merging of Paddy Power as well as Betfair would be classified as the biggest amalgamation ever in the history of online betting. This deal brings a clear example of how different companies are joining hands with attempt to clampdown governments as they take the centre stage in the betting markets. This has actually motivated other firms to initiate the step in attempt to maximize their profits.

The director to online betting research in Nottingham Business School in England believes that the merging together will expose companies in a vast technology and market scales as they try to push to digital platforms. This will keep the company in a fore front in the current stiff market. The amalgamation between Paddy Power and Betfair comes after the two firms had earlier strike a deal that was believed to be of $9.1 billion.

Warwick Bartlett, chief executive of researcher Global Betting and Gaming Consultancy claims that the ultra-competitive market is calling for its consolidation as various firms try to have an elaborated scale as well as being on the right track from the divides.

There is yet another deal that is on the brink of happening between Betsson a Swedish based firm as well as Unibet Group based in Malta. Several other firms have opted to merge in attempt to ease the burden as well as cost of keeping up with the competitive market. This comes after Ladbrokes claimed that it has acquired Coral group and is on the verge of acquiring Bwin.party Digital Entertainment after it tabled a bid.

According to betting analyst, the 20pc shared by the markets of both Paddy Power and Betfair would be instrumental in creation of the fastest growing business. After the completion of the merging deal, the Paddy Power stake holders will be entitled to a 52pc while 48pc will go to Betfair stakeholders.

His merging which is estimated to have a total of combined €1.2bn would only come second to Bet365’s €1.7 billion. David Jennings, an analyst at Davy in Dublin claimed that the combined product offers will be top in the list among others and this will be a fundamental place to create back their potential.

After making a request to the European Court to clearly define illegal sports betting sometimes in July with the fear that this would prohibit some betting firms in offering betting to European nations, Malta has recently withdrawn it and has decided to back FIFA and other sports bodies in fighting match manipulation.

Convention Seeks to Improve Defense of Match Integrity

The Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competition was initiated in July with an attempt of eradicating fixed matches. This was followed by the introduction of the a consistence flow of communications from national to international sporting organizations whereby those regulators who were suspected to incorporate match fixing would face the law. The drafting of the Convention was definitely going to involve Malta which was seen as the targeted business operation for illegal match fixing.

Nonetheless Malta went against the Convention as it claimed not to clearly understand the definition of illegal sport betting. Malta claimed that this Convention can be given an example to a law that is not concerned with regulating the regulated betting sites who they think stands a little chance of committing match manipulation but rather seeks to destroy the unregulated betting sites.

However, the nation later opted to drop the request but promised to help sports bodies in fighting match fixing despite being a non-signatory member to the Convention.

Perform Group Teams with FIFA to Improve EWS

In attempt to eradicate match fixing, the Perform Group has put pen on a paper in a deal with FIFA’s Early Warning System as they attempt to safeguard the pureness in soccer events. The deal involves the incorporation of Perform Group Opta data into FIFA monitors as they try to perceive any match fixing scandal.

Ralf Mutschke, FIFA director of security the deal with Perform will play a bigger role in attempt to fully eradicate match fixing with this being a start of an essential foundation in the scheme.

Matthew Drew, director of integrity and security for Perform on the other hand claimed that he was pleased to see Perform digital contents being of use in the detection of any peculiar match manipulation in sporting events.

Fortuna Entertainment a betting operator based in Eastern Europe has reported to have suffered a huge loss of 47% in its net profit to record at €4.8 million as opposed to €8.9 million recorded in H1 2014. The main reason that has led to this loss has been attributed to the drastic fall in its group operating margins to record at 10.4% from 18.5% of H1 2014. This has resulted from being smacked by inauspicious sports outcome during the month of March.

In the initial six months of 2015, its incomes fell drastically by 5% to record at €46 million as a result of betting decline in its main fan base Czech Republic. Moreover, it can be remembered that moments earlier, the government of Slovakia had cancelled the online handling fees which affected Fortuna.

The company had a glorious year of 2014 where revenue had rose up and mostly due to the presence of the FIFA World Cup. However, vertical replicated a 6% loss to record at €42 million as compared to €45.5 million recorded in H1 2014.

Despite the fact that this company oversaw a 23% betting increase to records its total earning to €411 million, the aspect of sustaining its operation performance was not evident which if it happened would have shown an increase in core market taxes as well as the operational costs.

Fortuna recorded an increase of 9.7% in the total operating cost in the initial six months of 2015 to record at €37.1 million as compared to H1 of 2014. The recruitment of several staff members by Fortuna development of its cost would be crucial as it tries to mould its future corporate growth.

Per Widerstrom CEO of Fortuna Entertainment claimed that this performance will not affect their year set goals. The outcome was as a result of higher rate of demand on online sports betting, the live streaming offer as well as the eradication of online betting fee in Slovakia. He added the comparing year and another has been affected by the absence of any global sporting event. For instance last year, income for Fortuna was much higher since there was the FIFA World Cup in Brazil unlike this year where no major event is taking place.