Sports betting firm partner with leading National Hunt jockey
Friday 11th October 2019 – Barry Geraghty, one of jump racing’s most successful jockeys of all time, will be sponsored by Sporting Index for the winter National Hunt season.
Geraghty will wear the Sporting Index logo on his breeches and collar, provide exclusive insight in a regular column on sportingindex.com and support with social media posts and daily previews during the season’s major meetings.
The 40-year-old Irishman’s achievements include winning the 2003 Grand National aboard Monty’s Pass and recording 38 Cheltenham Festival winners, second only to Ruby Walsh. He is also the retained rider for National Hunt racing’s most successful owner, J P McManus.
Sporting Index, who recently launched a fixed odds offering to run alongside their well-established spread betting service, were the first sponsors of the Cheltenham Festival’s Cross Country Chase, partnering the race from 2005-2007. Geraghty is the company’s first partnership with a jockey.
Simon Trim, CEO at Sporting Index, said: “Barry has achieved a huge amount in his illustrious career in the saddle, and we are very excited to be his sponsor for the upcoming season. He looks to have some fantastic yards and horses behind him, so let’s hope for a successful campaign!”
Barry Geraghty, said: “I’m thrilled to be working with Sporting Index. Chepstow is the start of what promises to be another exciting National Hunt season and I look forward to sharing my views in a regular column on the Sporting Index website.
“There are plenty of horses that I’m really excited to be getting on board this season and hopefully I can have my fair share of winners.”
About Sporting Index
Sporting Index is best known as the world’s largest sports spread betting business, offering the widest range of markets and taking some of the largest bets on sporting, political and entertainment events around the world.
Sporting Index forms part of The Sporting Group with c.300 staff, based mainly at its London HQ. It is privately owned and is the undisputed world leader in sports spread betting, dominating the global market with an estimated 80%+ market share. Today it offers the sports fan the opportunity to bet on thousands of markets per week on a wide variety of sports, political and showbiz events, as well as on a portfolio of unique virtual games and casino products. Clients transact via its award-winning mobile phone applications, websites and a 24/7 voice telephony service. Sporting Index’s B2C business continues to grow in the face of a fiercely competitive online betting market.
At the heart of the business is a world class trading, modelling and liability management capability that is widely acknowledged as amongst the best in the global betting market. The Group combines the latest technology with unrivalled trader expertise to service its core sports spread betting clients, as well as an increasing number of Business-to-Business partners who rely on the company’s fixed-odds in-play pricing, trading and modelling expertise to underpin their own sportsbook operations via the Sporting Solutions brand. This has quickly established itself as a leading provider to lotteries and “Tier One” operators, with a number of flagship betting brands signed up.
Sporting Index is authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Conduct Authority and the U.K. Gambling Commission.
