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Entain and McLaren F1 Team open the doors for women to return to work
The companies are launching a joint Returnship programme for women to return to careers in the world’s most exciting industries
Entain, the global sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment group, and the McLaren F1 Team, are launching applications for their joint Returnship programme, to help reignite the careers of women returning to roles in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
While the representation of women in STEM is steadily increasing 1, there remains a significant gender imbalance – in the UK, just 26% of STEM graduates are women, and only 24% of the STEM workforce are women2. There is an urgent need to change the perceptions of careers in STEM, open more opportunities for women to pursue careers in the field, and help both women and men thrive equally in STEM.
As 26% of sports bettors globally are now female3, and F1 continues to experience a rise in female fans, with approximately 40% of fans now female4, it has become even more important for both companies to reflect the customer experience by having a diverse workforce. The Returnship programme is another step in the right direction to making this change.
Jette Nygaard-Andersen, Entain CEO, said: “The fusion of technology, sport and entertainment, and desire to support talented women re-entering the workforce meant that launching this brand-new programme with our partner, McLaren, is an obvious step. We share a passion and commitment for giving women a platform to reignite their careers in STEM and hope that through this programme, we not only support a generation of ambitious women now but inspire future generations of girls to land their dream STEM role.”
As part of the programme, an initial cohort of ten Returnship places will be created, offering unique opportunities and experience at either Entain or the McLaren F1 Team over a six-month period. The programme is designed to suit different women at different stages in their career, with successful candidates being supported by a 1-1 transitional coach specialising in returning to work, flexible working, networking with senior executives, and an opportunity to discuss permanent role opportunities after the six-month programme. Example placement roles span from software engineers and back-end developers to data scientists and design engineers, with the full list available on the programme’s website.
Candidates who meet the following minimum criteria are being sought:
- At least 3 months unemployed, underemployed or reskilling
- At least 2 years prior professional experience
- STEM focused qualifications or experience or a personal and evidencable passion for technology / data / engineering
Entain is committed to embedding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into all corners of its business, and has launched a number of programmes to support this commitment, under its EnTrain programme, which is designed to increase access to education and training in technology and improve diversity. With EnTrain, Entain has set the objective to positively impact the lives of over 1,000,000 people around the world, either directly or through their families and dependents, by 2030.
The Entain x McLaren F1 Team Returnship programme also complements Entain’s existing Reboot@Ivy initiative, which helps women return to their technology careers at its locations in Hyderabad and Manila.
Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing, commented: “We are excited to be launching the first returnship of its kind within F1 in partnership with Entain. This is an opportunity to drive real change within the Engineering and Technology industries and is part of our overall commitment to making STEM careers more accessible to all, and to having 40% of our employees from under-represented backgrounds by 2030.”
In December 2022, Formula 1 announced teams for its F1 Academy: an all-female racing series for younger drivers, set for 2023. Likewise, Extreme E has elevated women in motorsport with its gender-equal motorsport series. These moves demonstrate the eagerness to propel women drivers into the upper echelons of the sport, and mirror what Entain and the McLaren F1 Team are hoping to achieve through the Returnship programme.
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4 Gym Pigs: Porky Power
Gaming Corps flexes its muscles with 4 Gym Pigs: Porky Power
Gaming Corps, a publicly traded game development firm headquartered in Sweden, will debut its newest slot, 4 Gym Pigs: Porky Power, on May 7, presenting an energetic new title that replaces treasure-seeking with workout accomplishments, larger-than-life characters, and fitness-inspired excitement in the summer warmth.
Set in an outdoor gym and featuring four bodybuilding pigs pursuing fame instead of fortune, 4 Gym Pigs: Porky Power is designed on a 4×6 grid with 1024 winning combinations and incorporates workout-themed symbols along with a Hog & Win feature that underpins the gameplay experience with the intensity of a fully loaded barbell.
The Hog & Win feature, a swine variation of the traditional Hold & Win style, can be activated by Red, Yellow, Blue, or Beast Pig Coins. Every pig reveals a unique mode, covering Boost, Collect, Multi, and Beast.
Yellow Pig gathers Prize Coin values, Blue Pig uses multipliers of up to x5 throughout the grid, whereas Red Pig Coins convert into Weight Prize symbols from Mini to Mega. Beast Mode enlarges the grid to 5×6, enhances the pigs’ abilities, and can grant a special Grand Weight Prize, while a fully filled grid results in a 5,000x total bet payout.
Free Spins provide an additional pathway to the game’s significant highlights, with 3, 4, 5, or 6 Scatter Symbols granting as many as 15 Free Spins. While Free Spins are active, any activated Hog & Win modes include extra respins, enhancing the feature duration and increasing winning opportunities.
Viacheslav Pecheryni, Product Owner at Gaming Corps, said: “4 Gym Pigs: Porky Power is a lot of fun. The whole idea was to take that over-the-top gym culture, mix it with the Pigs attitude and build a game that hits harder than leg day. At the same time, there is plenty going on in the gameplay, especially once the different Hog & Win modes start kicking in, so it is not just visually entertaining, it has real energy behind it too.”
The release also includes a range of additional feature options, including Random Mode Buy Bonus, Hot Bet, Coin Hunt and Gaming Corps’ very own Pulse Mode, a faster autoplay format designed to deliver a more focused gaming experience.
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George Weaver
Weaver and Ward target more Royal Ascot glory via the Royal Palm Juvenile Stakes at Gulfstream Park
Trainer George Weaver will send Easy Life to Gulfstream Park this Saturday for her career debut in the $125,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies with the hope that the filly, owned by R A Hill Stable, BlackRidge Stables LLC and SGV Thoroughbreds, is destined for a future on turf.
“We don’t know if she is turf or dirt to be perfectly honest with you, but we’re going to ask her to turf to see if she can run at Royal Ascot,” Weaver said.
The Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies will co-headline Saturday’s Gulfstream card with the $125,000 Royal Palm Juvenile. The winners of both five-furlong turf stakes for 2-year-olds will each earn an automatic entry into one of six juvenile stakes during the Royal Ascot meeting (June 16-20) at Ascot Racecourse and a $25,000 equine travel stipend.
Weaver has enjoyed considerable success in Gulfstream’s Royal Palm stakes since their inception in 2023, when he saddled Crimson Advocate for a Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies victory and No Nay Mets for a win in the Royal Palm Juvenile. Crimson Advocate went on to capture the Queen Mary (G2) at Ascot Racecourse. No Nay Mets ran off the board in the Norfolk (G2).
“It’s a very, very hard place to win. It’s some of the best racing in the world that you can get. It’s not only great racing, it’s a great social scene, a great atmosphere,” said Weaver, who won the Royal Palm Juvenile last year with Sandal’s Song, who went on to finish third in the Norfolk at Royal Ascot. “When you’re there you feel like you’re participating in something special.”
Easy Life, a daughter of 2022 Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) winner Life is Good, was purchased out of the OBS March sale for $300,000.
“She came out of the 2-year-old sale and had a nice breeze over there. She’s got some speed and we’ve been having a little progress with her since we got her,” said Weaver, who will also be represented at Gulfstream Saturday by Automatic Press in the Royal Palm Juvenile.
J.G. Torrealba has the mount on the filly who is priced at 6-1 on the morning line.
Joker’s Chic, trained by Wesley Ward, enters the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies with one-race experience, however disappointing her fourth-place finish may have been. The Twin Oaks Bloodstock LLC’s daughter of Practical Joke had trained sharply in preparation for her debut, particularly at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County.
“She had a work at Palm Meadows on March 15 on turf. Joel Rosario breezed her. We sent her off behind two very nice fillies – two, three lengths behind – and she sat back there and she just eased out and went rolling by them,’ Ward recalled. “It was a very impressive workout.”
Joker’s Chic, a $200,000 purchase at the 2025 Keeneland September sale, prompted the early pace on her debut in a 4 ½-furlong maiden test over Keeneland’s main track before fading to fourth under Irad Ortiz Jr.
“When she ran, I was pretty confident with her. She broke and Irad had her in a beautiful position, but she didn’t make that explosive move she made at Palm Meadows,” Ward said. “I told the owner, ‘This must be a grass filly.’ If she runs back to her work at Palm Meadows, she’s going to be double tough to beat.”
Joao Moreira was named to ride Joker’s Chic at the time of entry but was unable to be released from commitments in Hong Kong. Joe Bravo will replace the international star aboard the Ward trainee, who is rated at 6-1 on the morning line.
Dew Sweepers’ Pot’s Right has been installed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of nine fillies on the strength of her debut victory at Keeneland. The daughter of Bolt d’Oro overcame a slow start to rally for a 1 ½-length debut victory in a 4 ½-furlong maiden test on dirt.
The Phillip Antonacci-trained filly returned to Palm Meadows to become acquainted with turf during a four-furlong breeze last Friday.
Luis Saez will ride Pot’s Right for the first time on Saturday.
Arindel’s Boots, an impressive 3 ½-length winner of her 4 ½-furlong debut at Gulfstream April 16, is rated second on the morning-line for her turf debut in the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies. The homebred daughter of Brethren, who debuted for trainer Jorge Delgado, will make her first start since being transferred to Carlos David.
Samy Camacho has the return call on Boots.
Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse will be represented by D.J. Stable LLC’s Pros and Cons and Gary Barber’s Sass Sass, in the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies. Pros and Cons, a $375,000 son of Triple Crown champion Justify, and Sass Sass, a homebred daughter of War of Will, will both make their debuts on Saturday.
Edwin Gonzalez has the call on Pros and Cons, while Martin Chuan will ride Sass Sass.
Mark B. Davis’s Dee Snook, an Irish-bred daughter of Sioux Nation trained by Doug O’Neill, and John Franklin and Diane Franklin’s Mo Town Foxy Brown, a Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained daughter of Mo Town, are entered to make their respective debuts.
Leonel Reyes has the mount on Dee Snook, while Nick Juarez has the call on Mo Town Foxy Brown.
Teresa and David Palmer’s Liberty Rings enters the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies off a rallying third-place finish, beaten by a half-length, on her debut on dirt at Gulfstream on April 19.
Miguel Vasquez has the return mount on the Nicholas Palmer-trained daughter of Awesome Slew.
Key takeaways from the Royal Palm>
- Winners of Gulfstream Park’s Royal Palm Juvenile Stakes (fillies’ and colts’ contests) receive free entry & travel stipends to any of Royal Ascot’s two-year-old races (six to choose from).
- Now in its fourth year, Gulfstream Park’s Royal Palm Juvenile Series started with a bang in 2023’s fillies’ division when Crimson Advocate landed a rare transatlantic double, before 2024 Juvenile victor Gabaldon finished second in the Windsor Castle Stakes.
- Five of the six Royal Palm winners have subsequently taken up their Royal Ascot engagements (with Lennilu and Sandal’s Song flying the flag by both recording third-placed finishes in 2025).
- Crimson Advocate was also subsequently bought by Wathnan Racing, rehomed in the UK, before going on to win last year’s Duke of Cambridge Stakes, demonstrating the long-term prospects of these juveniles.
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Betflow
Odditt Launches its B2B Betting Content Platform
Odditt has announced the commercial launch of its B2B betting content platform. Powered by the same technology behind its consumer app, Betflow, the new content engine helps sportsbook operators, prediction markets, platform providers, DFS companies, and affiliates deliver parlays and automated betting content at scale.
Parlays are the highest-margin product in sports betting, but the volume of pre-built options on most platforms is a fraction of what users could engage with. Odditt produces more than 100,000 ready-to-deploy parlays and individual betting opportunities each day across 115+ leagues in 45 countries.
Each wager is paired with supporting context such as statistical trends, storylines, fun facts, and narrative angles.
“Operators know this is a problem. Most just don’t have the infrastructure to solve it at scale. We built the missing layer between odds feeds and end users. Once every bet has context, the entire sportsbook becomes more dynamic,” said Odditt’s CEO and Co-Founder Matt Bresler.
The engine supports more than 900 betting markets and is available through embeddable widgets, scrollable feeds, or API integrations. Content can be customized by brand and filtered across thousands of categories, including weather, streaks, rivalries, player bios, and team metadata.
Odditt’s CTO and Co-Founder, Elaine Milardo, was DraftKings’ first data hire and helped scale its data organization from one employee to more than 100 engineers through the company’s IPO.
“The challenge is no longer just about setting odds. It’s turning them into content users actually want to engage with, and doing it every day at scale. That’s what we built,” said Milardo.
Betflow was unveiled in late fall of last year and has already surpassed 6000 users and 1 million bets explored. Odditt says multiple customers are currently testing the platform.
The company is also raising a $1.5 million seed round to accelerate integrations and scale sales and engineering.
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