Get enhanced odds on the biggest races this week at both of the big meetings this week, Glorious Goodwood and the Galway Festival.

For one hour every day this week, Monday to Sunday, we’ll be offering bigger prices on selected horses in most of the day’s races, so come back at the times stated below to take advantage of our generosity during the William Hill enhanced odds Happy Hours.

Monday 26th July
12:30-13:30 - Galway Festival Happy Hour

Tuesday 27th to Saturday 31st July
10:00-11:00 - Glorious Goodwood AND Galway Festival Happy Hour

Sunday 1st August
12:00-13:00 - Galway Festival Happy Hour

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It’s day one of Glorious Goodwood and what a wonderful week it is. Group races mingle with tip top handicaps, up and coming racehorses clash with battle hardened veterans and there’s more hard luck stories than a Las Vegas casino. It’s painful, but hopefully we can get the rub of the green and come out on top for the week.

To kick us off, Ross Brierley and David Kelner talk about nearly everything under the sun, Cornelius Lysaght goes through the card with a fine toothed comb and Declan O’Donoghue avoids Goodwood altogether and travels to Galway for day two of the finest Irish racing has to offer.

A top class week kicks off in style and you can catch it all on William Hill Radio.

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Bookmakers William Hill say around €70 million will be gambled by Irish punters on this year’s Galway Festival. That figure equates to an average of €10 million on each of the seven days of the festival.

The two feature races at Galway are the Tote Galway Plate on Wednesday and the Guinness Galway Hurdle on Thursday, and Irish bookies are expecting to see high turnover on both races.

Majestic Concorde, trained by the ‘King of Ballybrit’ - Dermot Weld, is the 6-1 favourite for the Galway Hurdle, whilst British raider Overturn is the current 7-1 market leader for the Galway Hurdle.

Hills are also betting on the Rooney Auctioneer-sponsored top jockey prizes, and the colour of the dress worn by the ‘best dressed lady’ - which will be presented on Thursday (Ladies Day).

“Galway is the biggest betting event on the Irish racing calendar, and bookies are bracing themselves for another epic battle with the punters down in Ballybrit,” said William Hill’s Irish spokesman Tony Kenny.

“Galway is known as the punters graveyard. However, it’ll be the bookies who’ll look like the walking dead if Dermot Weld has another bumper festival.“

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A total of 65 horses have stood their ground at the latest forfeit stage for next Wednesday’s Tote Galway Plate at Ballybrit.

The Dermot Weld trained Majestic Concorde is now the 6-1 favourite for the race having been 8-1 earlier on in the week.

Other interesting movers over the last few days include the Willie Mullins trained Themoonandsixpence (12-1 to 8-1), Grand Slam Hero (12-1 to 10-1) and Nicanor (25-1 to 20-1).

Hills spokesman Tony Kenny stated ‘Majestic Concorde and Themoonandsixpence have been the two best backed horses in the race’.

‘However, both seem to perform better on a sound surface, and with the ground currently soft - we could see a real shake-up in the market if the ground remains the same or gets worse.’

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A total of 42 horses have stood their ground at the latest forfeit stage for next Thursday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle.

The Donald McCain-trained Overturn heads betting for the race - with William Hill rating him a 7-1 shot to become the first British trainer winner of the two-mile hurdle since Sagaman in 1991.

Dirar, from the Gordon Elliott yard, is the 8-1 second favourite for the race, whilst last year’s winner Bahrain Storm is rated a 10-1 chance to record back-to-back successes in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

Others near the head of the betting include the Dermot Weld trained New Phase (10-1), the Jessica Harrington trained Gimli’s Rock (12-1), and the top-weight Luska Lad (12-1).

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a British winner of the Galway Hurdle,’ said William Hill spokesman Tony Kenny ‘but punters on both sides of the Irish sea seem to believe that Donald McCain’s Overturn could be the one to end Britain’s nineteen-year barren streak.’

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Wonderful Wednesday on William Hill Radio and the hot seats are filled by Simon Mapletoft, Chris Pimlott and Gary Capewell, which is as hot as you’re going to get on a mid-summer afternoon in Britain. Catterick, Leicester, Lingfield, Sandown, Worcester and a bit of Irish inspiration from Naas.

On the podcast, it’s Ross Brierley and Sam Turner chewing the fat and spitting out winers left, right and centre on the Sandown evening card.

Tune in from 2.00 on the dot for every single race, live and not quite exclusive.

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For the first time in almost three seasons a new name tops the ante-post betting for the Flat Jockeys Championship where Paul Hanagan is now odds-on at 10-11 with William Hill.

Richard Faheys stable jockey has transposed the long-time ante-post favourite Ryan Moore at the head of the betting who has been available as low as 1/4 with Hills since betting opened.

The defending champion now lies 3rd on the list behind Hanagan and Richard Hughes, with the former boasting a lead that continues to grow each day.

Kate Miller, spokeswoman for William Hill, said: No-one could have predicted the standings at this stage, with Paul Hanagan unthought-of at 33-1 in December. To say he is riding out of his skin is an understatement and hes now the first jockey to knock Ryan Moore off the top spot for almost three years. It is also not inconceivable that the current champion finishes outside the placings, with hefty competition in the form of Richard Hughes.

2010 British Jockeys Championship: 10-11 Paul Hanagan, 11-10 Ryan Moore, 9-1 Richard Hughes, 33-1 Frankie Dettori, 50-1 Kieren Fallon

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As your Trackside Live scribe, I often get lonely sat here on my own…

…through the long evenings… awaiting the 9.20 at Kempton…

(que violins sound in the background)

So I want you to entertain me.

Better clarify that or who knows what I’ll get sent - stick your humorous captions underneath the horseracing-related image - the funnier and more original the better please. Judged fortnightly on Fridays, I will personally credit the winner’s William Hill account with a fiver free bet.

Only a fiver, I hear you cry? Don’t call me stingy, it’s just for a bit of fun. So comment away.

Don’t forget to include your correct email address when you post so I can contact you for an account number. Doh!

I’ll start this one off - ‘I’d heard Southwell was a specialist course, but this is just ridiculous’

Yes, I’m sure you can do much better…!

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For this week only during Royal Ascot we have lowered the minimum bet to just 50p to qualify to watch the live streaming of a UK or Irish horse race.

Therefore you won’t have to constantly change the channel between the World Cup action from South Africa and the top quality racing on offer from Ascot as you can continue watching the football on your television whilst watching the racing on your PC.

And of course if you take the price when placing your bet on a UK or Irish horse race you will get Best Odds Guaranteed.

Plus don’t forget we give you a comprehensive horse racing service with Racing Post form, spotlights and verdicts plus audio tips and live commentary via our fantastic William Hill Radio service.

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We’re bringing you even bigger prices during the Royal Ascot Happy Hours.

During Happy Hour we push out the prices on selected races from Aintree. You can see what we’ve enhanced right here.

Don’t miss out on these offers as they’re only available during Happy Hour, 12:30 until 13:30 every day of Royal Ascot.

Not only are we offering enhanced prices but, with our Best Odds Guaranteed offer, you can take the price on any of the day’s UK or Irish horse racing and not worry about it drifting as we’ll still pay you the SP if it returns more than the price you took.

Happy Hour offers:

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