Friday 29th August

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Betfair Radio now offers you 2 channels to keep you up to date with all the market news and analysis available on Betfair.

Channel 1 goes on air at 11:00 every weekday and brings you commentary and analysis of the morning greyhounds and all UK horse racing. At the weekend, the channel is available 30 minutes before the first UK horse race.

Channel 2 is on air from 15:00 weekdays for analysis and news on all the Betfair markets from Football to Financials & from Tennis to Taikai.

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CHANNEL 1

11.00 - BAGS Greyhound Coverage from Hove and Hall Green

13.45 - Racing from Chester, Hamilton & Sandown Park.

Chester

Type Flat
First Race Time 2.20pm
Notable Jockeys Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer were joint champion jockeys last season.
Neil Callan, Tom Eaves and Darryll Holland are all in the top ten for this season's jockey championship.
Notable Horses Trainer Mark Brisbourne saddles 4 of the 11 runners in the 5.10pm race, a contest he has won before. His son Ben rides one of them, Prelude.
Time Control (2.20pm) goes for a first win in the colours carried by last year's Ebor winner, Purple Moon. She has won just over £2,000 for three placed efforts so far, but has a long way to go to reapy the 1.2m guineas she cost as a yearling.
Acquiesced (4.05pm) is yet to be out of the first two in three starts for trainer Richard Hannon but Excellerator could be her main danger today who is yet to be out of the first three for trainer George Baker.
The Kiddykid (2.55pm) is a multiple Group race winner and won here last time.
Aspen Darlin (4.05pm) was 8th in a Group 3 race at Royal Ascot.
Feature Race European Breeders' Fund Combermere Fillies' Conditions Stakes (4.05pm) is over six furlongs and is open to two year olds.

Hamilton Park

Type Flat
First Race Time 2.30pm
Notable Jockeys Neil Brown is lying 4th in the Champion Apprentice race this season
Notable Horses Five Wishes (4.15pm) is going for a Hamilton August hat-trick, having already been successful here twice in the last four weeks.
Feature Race Sodexo Stop Hunger Charity Handicap (4.50pm) is a six furlong race for three year old horses and older and rated 0-80.

Sandown Park

Type Flat
First Race Time 2.10pm
Notable Jockeys This season's leading jockey Ryan Moore.
Top jockeys include Frankie Dettori, Dane O'Neill and Richard Hughes.
Top young jockeys today include William Buick, David Probert and Frederik Tylicki.
Champion female rider Hayley Turner.
Notable Horses Admiral Dundas (4.30pm) is going for a hat-trick of wins.
Rocker (2.45pm) has a win and two places from just three starts at Sandown Park, and represents the father and son team of Gary (trainer) and Ryan (jockey) Moore.
Kingdom of Fife represents HM The Queen in the last race. It won at the course last time.
Feature Race Play Live Casino At betinternet.com Handicap (4.30pm) is a class 3 race over a mile for three years and older rated 0-90.

EVENING RACING

Salisbury

Type Flat
First Race Time 4.00pm
Notable Jockeys Top jockeys include Richard Hughes, Dane O'Neill and Ted Durcan.
Clare Hobson is yet to ride on the flat but has won numerous races between the flags with her homebred mare Scare Lotte.
Notable Horses Sohcahtoa (6.05pm) is on a hat-trick but faces stiff opposition as six of his seven rivals have won one of their last two races and four of them, Ayrus, Derbaas, Doctor Crane and On Our Way, have Group 1 entries later in the season.
Cosmea (2.10pm) was second at Glorious Goodwood last time.
Ba Globetrotter (5.05pm) is trained by Mick Channon who has saddled the last two winners of this race.
Feature Race Weatherbys Bank Stonehenge Stakes (6.05pm) is a listed race for two year olds over one mile.

Wolverhampton

Type Flat on the all-weather surface
First Race Time 6.50pm
Notable Jockeys Chris Catlin is champion jockey on the all weather.
Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer were joint champion jockeys last season.
Hayley Turner is champion female jockey.
Notable Horses Swords (8.20pm) won here last time out and has won three of his last four starts. He has 3 wins and 5 places from 13 runs at Wolverhampton.
Samuel Charles is biiding to win the 9.20pm race for the second year in a row.
Feature Race Beatties House of Fraser Wolverhampton Handicap (8.20pm) is a class 5 race over 1 mile 4 furlongs.

CHANNEL 2

15.00 - All the news from the Betfair markets. It's a Friday Football Fest with reaction to the Champions League and UEFA Cup draws. A big weekend for European football as La Liga and Serie A get underway. A preview of the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley and our regular update from the US Open at Flushing Meadows.