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.

Wednesday 15th April

• 14:05 at Cheltenham - Silver Trophy Chase
• 15:00 at Newmarket - Earl of Sefton Stakes
• 15:35 at Newmarket - Nell Gwyn Stakes

Thursday 16th April

• 15:00 at Newmarket - Abernant Stakes
• 15:35 at Newmarket - Craven Stakes

Saturday 18th April

• 13:25 at Newbury - John Porter Stakes
• 14:00 at Newbury - Fred Darling Stakes
• 14:20 at Ayr - Scottish Champion Hurdle
• 14:35 at Newbury - Greenham Stakes
• 15:10 at Newbury - OLBG Spring Cup
• 15:35 at Ayr - Scottish Grand National

Sunday 19th April

• Nakayama - Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 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 13th April 2026

• [Snooker] World Snooker Championship - Qualifiers (TNT Sports 3)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Premier League - Manchester United v Leeds United (Sky Sports)

Tuesday 14th April 2026

• [Snooker] World Snooker Championship - Qualifiers (TNT Sports 3)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders (Sky Sports Main Event)
• [Football] Championship - Portsmouth v Ipswich Town (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Championship - Southampton v Blackburn Rovers (Sky Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Atletico Madrid v Barcelona (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Liverpool v PSG (Amazon Prime Video)

Wednesday 15th April 2026

• [Snooker] World Snooker Championship - Qualifiers (TNT Sports 3)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Newmarket - Live Racing (ITV4)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru v Lucknow Super Giants (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Arsenal v Sporting CP (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Bayern Munich v Real Madrid (TNT Sports)

Thursday 16th April 2026

• [Golf] PGA Tour - RBC Heritage (Sky Sports Golf) (Ongoing till 19-Apr)
• [Horse Racing] Live racing from Newmarket - Live Racing (ITV4)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Mumbai Indians v Punjab Kings (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Darts] BetMGM Premier League Night 11 - Rotterdam Ahoy - 2026 Premier League Darts (Sky Sports Action)
• [Football] UEFA Conference League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Fiorentina v Crystal Palace (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Europa League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Aston Villa v Bologna (TNT Sports)
• [Football] UEFA Europa League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg - Nottingham Forest v FC Porto (TNT Sports)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Hull FC v St Helens (Sky Sports+)

Friday 17th April 2026

• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Gujarat Titans v Kolkata Knight Riders (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Championship - Blackburn Rovers v Coventry City (Sky Sports)
• [Boxing] Nathaniel Collins vs Cristobal Lorente - Live Boxing (DAZN)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Toulouse Olympique v Hull KR (Sky Sports+, SuperLeague+)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Huddersfield Giants v Leeds Rhinos (Sky Sports Action)
• [Rugby League] Super League - York Knights v Leigh Leopards (Sky Sports+, SuperLeague+)

Saturday 18th April 2026

• [Boxing] Alycia Baumgardner vs Bo Mi Re Shin - Live Boxing (Sky Sports+)
• [Snooker] World Snooker Championship (TNT Sports 3, BBC Two)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru v Delhi Capitals (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Championship - Portsmouth v Leicester City (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Brentford v Fulham (TNT Sports)
• [Boxing] Hasely Hepi vs Krzysztof Wisniewski - Live Boxing (DAZN)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Wakefield Trinity v Bradford Bulls (Sky Sports+, SuperLeague+)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Sunrisers Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton & Hove Albion (Sky Sports)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Catalans Dragons v Warrington Wolves (Sky Sports+, SuperLeague+)
• [Football] Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester United (TNT Sports)
• [Boxing] Ben Whittaker vs Braian Nahuel Suarez - Live Boxing (DAZN)

Sunday 19th April 2026

• [UFC] Gilbert Burns vs Mike Malott - UFC Fight Night (TNT Sports 1)
• [Snooker] World Snooker Championship (BBC Two, TNT Sports 3)
• [Football] Championship - Ipswich Town v Middlesbrough (Sky Sports)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Premier League - Aston Villa v Sunderland (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Everton v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
• [Football] Premier League - Nottingham Forest v Burnley (Sky Sports)
• [Rugby League] Super League - Wigan Warriors v Castleford Tigers (Sky Sports+, SuperLeague+)
• [Cricket] IPL 2026 - Punjab Kings v Lucknow Super Giants (Sky Sports Cricket)
• [Football] Premier League - Manchester City v Arsenal (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.