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David Kok may have strength in numbers in the $70000 Class 3 race (1400m) on Feb 24, but he has been banking more on one third of his trio of runners. However, after Sabah Ace drew the outermost alley in the 12-horse field, the Singaporean trainer has lowered his expectations significantly. Suddenly, he may even have to hedge his bet. "I've got…

This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on September 18, 2023 - September 24, 2023 It may come as a surprise to learn that the world's third-largest sporting event (after football's World Cup and the Olympics) kicked off in the early hours of Sept 9 in the sort of Paris suburb where you might feel safer if you had a rugby…

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Three weeks have galloped by since the Singapore horse racing industry was rocked by the news that the Government was reclaiming the 120ha of land where the Kranji racecourse sits, and the countdown to its closure on Oct 5, 2024, has already begun. The ripple effect within the industry has not…

Last Update on: May 26th, 2023 at 06:18 pm From May 9th - 15th, the Sri Lankan men's Emerging squad visitedSano, Japan. During this visit, the team played five matches against Japan's national team at a local cricket stadium. Sano City has been working enthusiastically to make cricket popular for more than a decade. While the potential of this…

Malaysia host Hong Kong at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium in Johor on Tuesday (March 28) in a friendly, looking to make it two wins from two this month. The Malayan Tigers beat Turkemistan in a narrow 1-0 win on Thursday (March 23), courtesy of a first-half strike from Muhammad Akhyar. Interestingly, Malaysia had also beaten the central Asian side…

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 is expected to take place between April and March 2023. The tournament will start right after the end of Australia's tour of India on 22nd March 2023. IPL fans around the world find it convenient to bet on the event using their phones. There is a range of online apps available. Wondering which apps are the best…

Who's going to win as the DP World Tour returns to Laguna National? Oddschecker's Tom Jacobs shares his picks After almost a decade away, the DP World Tour returns to Laguna National - the host venue for the Singapore Masters which ran from 2001 to 2007 and the Ballantine's Championship from 2008 to 2014. But before I get to my Singapore Classic…

How it qualified: Gold medal 2021 EuroHockey Championships: 1971 - 6th, 1973 - Champion, 1975 - 9th, 1978 - Runner-up, 1982 - 4th, 1986 - 7th, 1990 - Champion, 1994 - Runner-up, 1998 - Champion, 2002 - 3rd, 2006 - 7th, 2010 - 3rd, 2014 - Runner-up, 2018 - Runner-up. World Cup record against India: 7 Wins, 0 losses. 1973: The Netherlands 2(4)-2(2)…

Cambodia will host Philippines at the Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh on Tuesday (December 20) in their opening game of the 2022 AFF Championship. The Angkor Warriors have never progressed beyond the group stage of the competition and face another tough road to the knockouts with Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei also in the group.…

The gambling rules in Thailand are fairly severe. Thai players are permitted to wager on the national lottery and horse races, but all other kinds of gambling are prohibited. However, it is no secret that despite the ban, there is a massive underground gambling industry in Thailand. A shadow economy worth billions of dollars a year is formed by…

Qatar will be locking horns with Singapore in the upcoming matches for the cricket fixture. The game is going to be a rollout for the Malaysia Quadrangular Series 2022-23. The event takes off on December 15, 2022, at 11:30 AM (IST). The fixtures are going to be taking place Qatar vs Singapore where will be a fixture taking off at the grounds of…

Nikila and Vinula of Pathirage Brothers Racing will be representing Sri Lanka at the Asia Cup of Road Racing (ACRR) 2022 at Tarlac Circuit Hill, Philippines from December 9 to 11. Organised by FIM (International Motorcycle Federation) of Asia after a lapse of three years with the participation of eight countries, the Sri Lankan champion duo are…

On Sunday evening, with the temperature dropping in the picturesque backdrop of the mountainous city of Angren in Uzbekistan, as the weekend-long Asia Rugby U20 Sevens tournament reached its climax, both the Women's and Men's teams from the UAE turned up the heat, and turned on the afterburners, to overwhelm their respective opponents in the finals…

Sri Lanka's women cricketers made mince meat out of their hapless counterparts in Malaysia who did not stand a dog's chance in their Asia Cup match at Sylhet, India yesterday. Very little is known about Malaysia's men's cricketers while their women are merely just making up the numbers in the tournament The Sri Lankans made 105 for 7 and then…

Meghna-Shefali's century opening partnership. Image credit source: ACC Sylhet: The Indian team won the second match in a row in the Women's Asia Cup (Asia Cup 2022). India won the match by just 30 runs in the Duckworth-Louis method. 'Just' for that reason, the margin of victory would have been much higher had it been a perfect match. Why not,…

TWO props who only took up rugby in their mid to late teens and who have made markedly different journeys to Meggetland are now making a big impact with Boroughmuir Bears. Marcus Goodwin, a 23-year-old tight-head, and Callum McFeat Smith, a 26-year-old loose-head, have been part o f Graham Shiel's playing group since the start of the Sprint Series…

On Saturday, September 24, Cricbuzz reported that the former India National Cricket Team batter Sanjay Manjrekar's Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) exile has ended and the 57-year-old is back in the BCCI panel of commentators. If reports are to be believed, Sanjay Manjrekar is now set to commentate during the upcoming three-match ODI…

Malaysia and Tajikistan will face off against each other at 700th Anniversary Stadium in the final of the King's Cup on Sunday. It's no surprise that Malaysia are through to the final despite having the lowest Fifa ranking (148) amongst the four participants. Harimau Malaya have won the King's Cup on four occasions, but their last title dates back…

Former India National Cricket Team left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra has said that the India National Cricket Team will have to figure out the combination that they want to settle in for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022. The ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022, which is the eighth edition of the multi-nation tournament, is scheduled to be played from October 16…

Sri Lanka will face Afghanistan in the first match of the Super 4 level in Asia Cup 2022 today. The other two teams that have made it to the top 4 in this tournament are India and Pakistan. Super 4 will be played in the round-robin format, where the top two teams will play in the final on September 11, 2022. India and Afghanistan, which were…

The suspension is backdated to his withdrawal from Wales' World Cup campaign, on 16 September 2019. The panel who judged Howley found that from 14 November, 2015 to 7 September, 2019 he put "363 bets on rugby union, featuring 1163 matches in total". Howley, 49, used his Welsh Rugby Union phone and email account to place bets. The former Wales and…

For the freshest news, join The Borneo Post's Telegram Channel and The Borneo Post on Newswav. KUCHING: The Sarawak women's team finished third in the U21 category of the just completed NAZA National Sevens Series in Ipoh, Perak which saw Sabah emerging as the champions and Selangor as the first runners-up. Upon hearing this encouraging result,…

We regret to inform you that he has gone full Partridge on us. It's 10am in Barcelona and Luis Suarez is sat at home, dressed in a grey Adidas joggers and a t-shirt adorned with his childhood hero, Gnasher from Dennis the Menace. He has his feet resting up on his'Stockholm' sofa from Ikea and is playing FIFA online, repeatedly telling the person on…

Five brothers, a knack for footy and deep love for their home country: this is the story of the Slaimankhel family who created a championship-aspiring national team from nothing. From Afghanistan, then Pakistan before migrating to Auckland in New Zealand, the Slaimankhel boys were determined to create their own mould in a new country. After…