Results for tag: Tony McCoy
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 8, 2010 at 02:57:09 PM
[b]Could market favourite be defeated by the social media? Twitter and Facebook stats are a worry for McCoy supporters...[/b]
[b]Tony McCoy[/b] currently trades as the 2.1 favourite on Betfair for the BBC's Sports Personality Of the Year award - he is generally an odds-on chance elsewhere - but is even that industry-best price too short?
Looking at the opposition, the answer is surely yes.
Horseracing is sure to get behind McCoy in the next week or so, and there is probably no-one as deserving of the award than he, for his unremitting excellence in his field over the past two decades.
And, remember, you don't need a lot of votes to win the award, because it isn't that popular with the general public. Last year, Ryan Giggs won by a furlong, hard held. But he only attracted ...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 2, 2010 at 11:16:48 AM
[b]Horse racing has never produced the Spoty winner and there are many reasons to believe that hot favourite AP McCoy will be another losing name on the list.[/b]
The BBC [b]Sports Personality of the Year Award[/b] surpasses even Christmas as the highlight of the Contrarian's December, because every year without fail, the British voting public show that their line of thought runs perpendicular to that of most bettors. This year, the punters can't get their hands off [b]Tony McCoy[/b], and there's such confidence in the jump jockey that he can be opposed at 2.12. Here's why you should take that price...
[b]The market is rarely right[/b]
Tony McCoy has traded at odds as low as 1.75, which is quite staggering given the frequency with which the favourite is overlooked. Need a refresher?...