It is said that hard work will always pay. In most cases achieving an objective is not enough to be deemed as the best of the best. Maintaining that objective and never subsiding in any way is fundamental for the glorious trend each individual will die to have. In essence this high form and morale maintenance will bring in other top awards to anyone or anything that has the guts to keep rolling high.

Horse racing has been one sport that has seen heroes and heroine in the last two centuries. If you ask many of these heroes, some will disclose the main secret of being at the top is maintaining the top form and winning one race after another. The 2015 LONGINES World Best Racehorse went to American Pharaoh. The US three times Crown winner broke the silence kept by American horses in the last seven years as it was back in 2008 when an American horse scooped the title.

Pharaoh deserved to be crowned the winner of the LONGINES honor in 2015 after his amazing form and effort saw him scoop three outstanding trophies at the same time. His three wins starting with the US Grand Slams held at Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes as well as the Belmont Stake were enough to make him the first ever horse to scoop the three awards in 37 years. He now adds the LONGINES title to his name having claimed the American Horserace of the 2015 year.

It was amazing to see the Pharaoh dominating the American horse races under the command of jockey Victor Espinoza and the ownership of Ahmed Zayat. The three awards prompted the media to accord the Pharaoh with the Grand Slam King and Once in a lifetime horse titles.

In his last race before retiring, Pharaoh scooped $5 million during the Breeders Classic Cup held at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He now holds the gold stallion fame among the Zayat Stables in Hackensack in NJ.

Hardly weeks have passed since some of basketball players of Tennessee high school were found guilty of sexually abusing one students. The leading prosecutor however claimed that new evidence has shown three other freshmen students were sexually abused in the process. At the same time, the reluctant to report the matter to the authorities found some three officials in hot soup as they were arrested and charged.

Andre Montgomery, the boys’ basketball coach, Karl Williams, an assistant coach and Allard “Jesse” Nayadley, Ooltewah High School’s athletic director and assistant principal were aligned in court on Thursday for failure to notify the police on the incident. They are to be sentenced on a hearing schedule to take place on the 21^st day of January.

The case was opened up after one student was injured to an extent of requiring a surgery. The incident that took place on the 22^nd day of December 2015 at Gatlinburg, Tennessee where the boys’ team was taking part in a tournament saw three juveniles charged with aggravated assault and aggravated rape.

Reports claimed that a 17 year old boy sodomized a 15-year old with a pool stick. Two of the assailants aged 16 years held the victim down. This was according to victim’s grandmother testimony. However, police reports failed to identify the pool stick used to perform the uncouth act. The grandmother also added that no adult was round during the incident.

According to police reports, the coach rushed the victim to Knoxville hospital where surgery was conducted. The victim was after few days released from the hospital and is now recovering at his home. The hearing of the teens’ case is scheduled on the 26^th day of January 2016.

The head coach at Montgomery was shifted to another department of the school where he was curtailed to interact with students as the investigation is underway. This was directive from the Hamilton County Superintendent Rick Smith who claimed that he (coach) should not feel punished but will have to stick to his new role until the investigation is over. This was followed by Smith cancelling the basketball season on 6^th of January with claims that this would give the police ample time and space to conduct their investigation.

Every betting firm across the globe will work hard to achieve its main objectives. These objectives will stretch from maximization of profits, having a substantial number of clients to their platform and being on the top in the industry. However, this is achieved by having the best quality of services and products to be rendered. Appealing products and services will automatically attract more clients who in turn will engage more in the activities offered at the firm. They would bring with themselves more cash which would be crucial for the firm which intends to make huge profits.

All said, many would always expect a reward if they perform better. In essence, the outstanding performance of the Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G0 has not gone unnoticed. The firm was honored recently with the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ award. This is a great step for the company which has been operational for one year only.

More often than not, for a firm to be enlisted among the top 100 companies, it must have done extensively amazing projects and initiatives which would concur with the competitive market in the betting industry. UK has a group of highly skilled researchers who undertake the vigorous process in attempt to come up with the best companies among the best. Ratings as well as scores a certain firm is awarded are as a result of vigorous research which would involve employees opinion on various aspects of the firm. These questioners are updated year by year.

SB&G will have a chance to know their current rank in the top 100 firms at an event to be held on the 23^rd day of February 2016 in Battersea Park, London. This comes as the firm claimed that it has entered in a deal to have £11 million being invested on 200 new roles.

The SB&G brand and HR director Rob Painter claimed that it was a great achievement to have such an accolade keeping in mind that the firm is only few months old as an independent company. He continued to claim that the new culture they have adopted has played a major role for this honor and they are now focused in achieving the set objectives and become the best digital business across UK.

Nine years ago, Chapapote one of the greatest greyhounds in Spain and a champion of different occasions went on missing. It was alleged that the greyhound was stolen by unidentified assailants with search and rescue operations by the police having no end until 2013. However, exactly nine years after the champion was stolen, his DNA emerged in one of greyhound events held in Spain. Reports from the Local claimed that two greyhounds that were set to take part in the event possessed Chapapote’s DNA. This called for a massive action to be initiated which prompted the cancellation of the event.

Chaos erupted and the case was presented to the nation’s sports tribunal who will have to sit down and decide on the fate of the event; if it should go on or not. One owner of the two dogs in subject told the Marca newspaper that he had no idea the breed from which his dog came from. He continued to argue that most of greyhound owners are in his similar situation where they have no idea of which breed fathered their dogs. He added that there are other greyhounds that have raced in Spain and some have still been identified to have Chapapote DNA.

The popular race Chapapote vanished and later in 2013 when the police recovered him claimed that it was a group of breeding gang had stolen him. They recovered the champion in a black market when he was about to be sold to other breeding gangs b his assailants. Activist groups who cared for the well being of animals had tabled a motion on how these greyhounds have been mistreated and urged the Spanish government to initiate various methods in curbing the issue.

A British charity that is sponsored by Ricky Gervais and Judi Dench has initiated a strategy to save the lives of some of mistreated greyhounds who are sometimes burnt with acid and cigarettes, others left alone to wander in busy motorways, others hanged on trees while others are left in tunnels to die. Some have had serious injuries with broken limbs, open wounds with others suffering from starvation related diseases after many days without food.

Coral had tried to incorporate the 7.5% flat offer on its online as well as retail horseracing profits which was later dispelled by the British Horseracing Authority. This follows the introduction of the Authorized Betting Partner Scheme (ABT). This scheme by the British Authority claims that all bookmakers should pay a substantial amount that the authority stipulates failure to which they will be subjected to no event sponsorship deal.

The Authority however failed to bring out the real percentage that bookmakers should pay which is seen by these bookmakers as a way their profits are being exploited. This comes after the betting shops were awarded with 10.75% pay to British Horseracing Authority with the exception of the online business.

Chief Executive at Coral Carl Leaver sent a letter to the Authority claiming that his firm was willing to pay 7.5% of all the profits accrued. He further cited his negative idea on the new scheme of ABT which he claimed to be a way of making bookmakers pay more than what they are supposed to. 7.5% is between 10.75% which betting shops pay as well as 5% paid by online operators. This seemed to be an appealing value in standardizing all profits that a company should be levied by the British Authorities.

Nick Rust, Chief Executive of the British Horseracing Authority claimed that they remained firm on their scheme and he hoped that that entire firm at loggerheads will see the benefits accrued by ABT and all bookmakers have the right to be open and stage their queries.

A spokesperson from Ladbrokes came out in defense of Coral who will be their future merge claiming that the arguments represented by Coral are genuine and this will be fundamental in recognizing the main viable reality represented in their daily market as well as bringing justice to the present.

Ladbroke may also lose its sponsorship of the Cheltenham festival if it fails to abide to the new policies stipulated by the ABP before March. Sponsorship deal have now become the subject of the day as bookmakers will be forced to dig deep into their pocked by the racing in order to acquire the right to sponsor certain events.