OLBG Community News

We have plenty of trend blogs on OLBG available most weekends. To make it easier to see which races are covered, we will list the upcoming races here, along with links.

These blogs (all times are GMT) can help you find race selections when adding your horse racing tips. Races marked in bold mean the trend shortlists are available.

Thursday 9th April

• Aintree - Essential Guide To The Grand National Meeting
• 13:45 at Aintree - Anniversary 4YO Juvenile Hurdle
• 14:20 at Aintree - Manifesto Novices' Chase
• 14:55 at Aintree - Bowl Chase
• 15:30 at Aintree - Foxhunters Chase
• 16:05 at Aintree - Aintree Hurdle
• 16:40 at Aintree - Red Rum Handicap Chase
• 17:15 at Aintree - Nickel Coin Mares Bumper

Friday 10th April

• 13:45 at Aintree - National Meeting 2m4f Handicap Hurdle
• 14:20 at Aintree - Mildmay Novices' Chase
• 14:55 at Aintree - Top Novices' Hurdle
• 15:30 at Aintree - Melling Chase
• 16:05 at Aintree - Topham Chase
• 16:40 at Aintree - Sefton Novices' Hurdle
• 17:15 at Aintree - National Meeting 2m Handicap Hurdle

Saturday 11th April

• 12:45 at Aintree - Maghull Novices' Chase
• 13:20 at Aintree - National Meeting 3m Handicap Hurdle
• 13:55 at Aintree - Mersey Novices' Hurdle
• 14:30 at Aintree - Freebooter Handicap Chase
• 15:05 at Aintree - Liverpool Hurdle
• 16:00 at Aintree - Grand National
• 17:00 at Aintree - Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race

Sunday 12th April

• Hanshin - Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas)

Here are some of the sporting highlights for the week ahead. Live TV events are usually popular, so why not share your tips to help those who want to bet on them?

Monday 6th April 2026

• [Boxing] Andres Cortes vs Eridson Garcia - Live Boxing (Sky Sports Action)
• [Football] Championship - Portsmouth v Oxford United (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Championship - Watford v Charlton Athletic (Sky Sports)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Fairyhouse, Plumpton and Kempton Park - Live Racing (ITV)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Kolkata Knight Riders v Punjab Kings (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Championship - Swansea City v Middlesbrough (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Championship - Hull City v Coventry City (Sky Sports)

Tuesday 7th April 2026

• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - Sporting CP v Arsenal (Amazon Prime Video)

Wednesday 8th April 2026

• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Delhi Capitals v Gujarat Titans (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - Barcelona v Atletico Madrid (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - PSG v Liverpool (TNT Sports)

Thursday 9th April 2026

• [Golf] PGA Tour - Masters Tournament (Sky Sports Golf) (Ongoing till 12-Apr)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Aintree - Live Racing (ITV)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Kolkata Knight Riders v Lucknow Super Giants (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Darts] BetMGM Premier League Night 10 - Brighton Centre - 2026 Premier League Darts (Sky Sports Action)
• [Football] UEFA Conference League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - Crystal Palace v Fiorentina (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Europa League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - Bologna v Aston Villa (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Europa League Quarter-Final 1st Leg - FC Porto v Nottingham Forest (TNT Sports)

Friday 10th April 2026

• [Boxing] Iglesias vs. Silyagin - Live Boxing (DAZN)
• [Boxing] Nasukawa vs Estrada - Live Boxing (Amazon Prime Video)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Aintree - Live Racing (ITV)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Championship - West Brom v Millwall (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - West Ham United v Wolves (Sky Sports)
• [Boxing] Theophilous Kpakpo Allotey vs Jonas Erastus - Live Boxing (DAZN)

Saturday 11th April 2026

• [UFC] Coverage of ONE Fight Night 42 at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium - One Championship (Sky Sports Action)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Punjab Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Championship - Norwich City v Ipswich Town (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth (TNT Sports)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Capitals (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Aintree - Live Racing (ITV)
• [Football] Premier League - Liverpool v Fulham (Sky Sports)
• [Boxing] Tyson Fury vs Arslanbek Makhmudov - Live Boxing (Netflix)

Sunday 12th April 2026

• [UFC] UFC 327 - Jiri Prochazka vs Carlos Ulberg - UFC Fight Night (TNT Sports 1)
• [Boxing] Maki Pitolo vs Harry Coltrane - Live Boxing (DAZN)
• [Football] Championship - Birmingham City v Wrexham (Sky Sports)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Lucknow Super Giants v Gujarat Titans (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Premier League - Crystal Palace v Newcastle United (Sky Sports Action, Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur (Sky Sports)
• [Football] EFL Trophy Final - Luton Town v Stockport County (Sky Sports)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Musselburgh - Live Racing (ITV4)
• [Football] Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City (Sky Sports)

We are running our annual Snooker World Championships tipster competition (18th April - 4th May) with a total cash prize fund of £200 and over 13 prizes.

The winner will receive a £50 cash prize; there's £25 for 2nd & 3rd, and £10 for the next 10 tipsters.

The competition is FREE TO ENTER. Enter your tips in the normal fashion on the make-a-tip menu for any of the World Championships markets.

To be in with a chance of landing one of the prizes, you must fulfil the following criteria:

1. Place 10 or more tips
2. 5 or more of those must be profitable
3. Each tip must contain 20 or more words
4. You must finish with a profit

Best of luck 🤞

We are running our annual Masters tipster competition (9th - 12th April) with a total cash prize fund of £200 and over 13 prizes.

The winner will receive a £50 cash prize; there's £25 for 2nd & 3rd, and £10 for the next 10 tipsters.

The competition is FREE TO ENTER. Enter your tips in the normal fashion on the make-a-tip menu for the golf markets.

To be in with a chance of landing one of the prizes, you must fulfil the following criteria:

1. Place 5 or more tips
2. Each tip must contain 20 or more words
3. You must finish with a profit

Best of luck 🫰

We are running our annual Aintree tipster competition (9th - 11th April) with a total cash prize fund of £200 and over 13 prizes.

The winner will receive a £50 cash prize; there's £25 for 2nd & 3rd, and £10 for the next 10 tipsters.

The competition is FREE TO ENTER. Enter your tips in the normal fashion on the make-a-tip menu for the races.

To be in with a chance of landing one of the prizes, you must fulfil the following criteria:

1. Place 10 or more tips
2. 5 or more of those must be profitable
3. Each tip must contain 20 or more words
4. You must finish with a profit

Best of Luck 🤞

Did you know you can earn crowns, which you can then spend on merchandise in the OLBG store in many ways, just by using your OLBG account? 

You can earn OLBG crowns for use in the store by doing any of the following with your OLBG account:

✅ Add tips - via your dashboard task menu to receive crowns and new tasks added regularly.

✅ Hit A Winning Streak - Place at least one winning tip on consecutive days and build a winning streak, earning crowns as your streak progresses.

✅ Have Profitable Days - Have at least 5 winning tips (with comments) on a sport and finish in profit on any given day to win 200 crowns!

✅ Settle Tips - Enter results and scores for completed events in many sports to receive crowns.

✅ Surveys - complete topical surveys via your "Explore And Earn" section on your dashboard to receive crowns.

✅ Bookie Reviews - Add useful bookie reviews to help users and receive crowns. New reviews are added regularly to your dashboard tasks.

Take a look in the store, there are lots of OLBG goodies to pick from, ranging from Umbrellas, Bobble Hats, Caps, Water Bottles, Coasters, Notebooks, Playing Cards, Pens and digital items for the tipsters amongst you who like to keep track of stats and figures for the year.

We wanted to let you know about a new feature on OLBG that you may not be aware of. If you are a tipster, then you are probably aware of the monthly tipsters newsletter that we send out at the beginning of each month.

However, there are now even more newsletters that you can subscribe to in your 'My Subscriptions' area of the site. We have plenty of newsletters in there, some of which may not be suitable for you; you can subscribe to as many as you want.

We have a Dorking Wanderers Newsletter. In case you are not aware, we sponsor Dorking Wanderers, and that is packed with insights into the club.

We also have the Harry Derham Racing Newsletter, another sponsorship of ours and the yard that looks after the OLBG Racing horses.

You may want news on Casinos, Slots or Bingo, we have a newsletter for each of those, as well as much more, so head over to your subscription page and pick which ones you want to receive.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2026 Six Nations Tipping Competition. Congratulations go to nanualex on winning the £50 top prize after finishing the competition with a +12.56 level stakes profit (LSP) from 26 tips placed, of which 16 were profitable.

rockabilly kat finished in 2nd place with a +12.33 LSP from 19 tips placed (14 profitable), and zephyr was 3rd with a +9.20 LSP from 28 tips placed (16 profitable); both members won £25. Tipsters finishing 4th to 13th win £10.

Here are the 13 cash prize winners:

1. nanualex +12.56
2. rockabilly kat +12.33
3. zephyr +9.20
4. 21Jackpot +8.30
5. angelov +8.22
6. Dempcx +7.33
7. surfsup +6.98
8. dwainec +6.72
9. paulat +6.68
10. Matchpoint1 +6.46
11. Quinel +6.24
12. Redfella77 +6.21
13. MC12MQ9 +6.12

The final Six Nations Tipster table stats can be viewed here: https://www.olbg.com/tipsters/tables?id=e-26

Thanks again to everyone who participated, and well done to lankylad and all the cash prize winners. Prizes have now been allocated to your OLBG accounts.

Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who participated in the 2026 Cheltenham Tipster Competition. Congratulations to meoldmate on winning the £500 top prize after finishing the competition with a +63.66 level-stakes profit (LSP).

The £200 runner-up prize goes to MonthlyJoyride, who finished with a +57.08 LSP, and the three £100 prizes go to adamross (+48.58) in 3rd, jimcarrryyy (+48.28) in 4th and Baz2014 (+45.66) in 5th.

Here are the final top five tipsters:

1. meoldmate +63.66
2. MonthlyJoyride +57.08
3. adamross +48.58
4. jimcarrryyy +48.28
5. Baz2014 +45.66

The £5 cash prize winners are: mugpunter99, JackpotRod, zephyr, Barking Dog, paddysgirl, griffin6, Parrstreet, Hushwing, rednev, damianmc12, David Xristo, motch61, El Mar, Majjik8150, RAGS2RICH, The AllWeatherMan, c4stle, Hazle86, NewSheriffInTown, Pippedatthepostagain, dwainec, shirleyswonderracingbirmingham, Billy121only, Toadfish85, whatcanisay, andywood69, mrjolson, neiltown, petethebet, Shrews, samm74, milasantiago, bravestes, Dave1962, jhovey, shotgun tips, dicksoman, Crofty11, violets, EDHINO, lola1183, lacos68, david1harry, simbad007, bappleby17, JiggsCasey, Cool Running, Randy Rann, Nunnylad, igorukr, nelypp, johnqclark, STEVEOCN, iontheball, JoshLFC180, Touchwood1988, CJMST380, kenny1504, worldofcarlo, the rascal, jujujawi, Defiance1982, JRAMBO60, TOPCLASS, themightyduck, tigerled, luchadormx, tommytucker, tapioca, fad4524.

The final Cheltenham Tipster table stats can be viewed here https://www.olbg.com/tipsters/tables?id=e-6

Thanks again to all who took part and well done to meoldmate and all the cash prize winners, prizes will be allocated to OLBG accounts shortly.

A big thank you to everyone who took part in the 2026 Cricket T20 World Cup Tipster Competition.

Congratulations go to Edwinp on winning the £25 top prize after finishing the competition with a +24.72 level stakes profit (LSP) from 95 tips placed, of which 53 were profitable.

The £10 runner-up spot went to rockabilly kat, who finished with a +20.89 LSP from 24 tips placed (13 returned a profit).

Here are the top 15 tipsters for the T20 World Cup Competition:

1. Edwinp +24.72
2. rockabilly kat +20.89
3. KP14798 +20.58
4. Quinel +18.66
5. steve135 +15.17
6. Redfella77 +8.67
7. Failed Prophet +7.80
8. Victory99 +6.40
9. igorukr +4.71
10. mnauman19945382 +4.54
11. Danfran +3.86
12. Nelypp +3.75
13. the rascal +3.64
14. griffin6 +2.50
15. andywood69 +1.87

Check out the final T20 Competition table to see the detailed stats. Thanks again to all who took part, and well done to Hogsback and the prize winners.

Prizes will be allocated to OLBG accounts in due course.