Introduction
Frankie Dettori’s Magic Seven is a 5 reel, 25 payline slot with thrilling horse racing style bonus rounds and a jackpot of 7,777 times your wager.
In the game, players can win up to 7,777x their investment if they match 5 wild Frankie Dettori symbols on the reels at the same time. Players can also win 10x their investment for matching three lower-value playing card icons.
Whenever two Magic Seven symbols appear on the reels, a scatter payout of 1x your total bet will be triggered. However, the real action comes in the free spins bonus round which triggers when three or more Magic Seven symbols appear. There is also a pick bonus round which triggers when two race course symbols appear on the first and last reels.
Bonus Feature
With some luck, Frankie Dettori’s Magic Seven’s two bonus features can prove to be highly rewarding.
In the Free Games Race bonus, players are transported to a new screen when three Magic Seven symbols appear anywhere on the screen. In this game, players must select one of three horses to participate in a virtual race, and the position of the chosen nag in the race will determine how many free spins they will then receive. A horse that finishes last receives ten spins, but a horse that finishes second gets 15 spins. You’ll be rewarded with 35 free spins if you win the race, so you could build up some big payouts.
There is also a Magic Seven bonus game that is triggered by the race track symbol rather than the Magic Seven symbol. As a result, players are taken to a racetrack divided into 20 sections, where a prize will be revealed based on their choice of a section. You can win coins in certain sections, while revealing trophies plays a video and increases your multiplier. The feature will end when you find “collect”.
In a poll commissioned by the ‘History Channel’ in 2018, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, was voted the greatest footballer of all time, ahead of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Pelé retired from professional football, at the age of 36, in October, 1977, but, in his heyday, achieved superstar status not only in his native Brazil, but around the world.
Born in the city of Três Corações, Minas Gerais, in the Southeast Region of Brazil on October 23, 1940, Pelé made his first team debut for São Paulo club Santos FC in 1956 and his first team debut for the Brazilian national team the following year. Indeed, his goal in the 2-1 defeat by Argentina at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on July 7, 1957, made him the youngest ever scorer for Brazil, a record that he still holds.
In 1958, at the age of 17, Pelé became the youngest player to appear in a FIFA World Cup final, scoring twice in a 5-2 defeat of hosts Sweden. He would win the FIFA World Cup again in 1962 and, after suffering a torrid time in 1966, when Brazil failed to progress from the group stages, again in 1970, to become the only three-time winner in history. All told, ‘Pérola Negra’, or ‘Black Pearl’, as Pelé was sometime known, scored 77 goals in 92 official appearances for Brazil, including 12 in 14 games at the World Cup, and remains the all-time leading goalscorer for his country. This was all long before the times of AI Racing Tips and the like. A different era.
At club level, Pelé played for Santos FC for nineteen seasons, winning the Campeonato Paulista nine times and the Copa Libertadores de América and the Intercontinental Cup twice apiece. He retired from Brazilian club football in 1974, but joined New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, to no little fanfare, the following season.
Office Sweepstakes are once again on all of our minds, because that’s right, it’s nearly time for the jewel in the crown of horse racing that is the Grand National. This national hunt spectacle is held annually (this year on Saturday 13th April) at Aintree near Liverpool and attracts the very best of the world of racing, from horse and jockey, to trainer and owner. The purse for the Grand National is £1 million+ with the winner taking away £561,000 in 2024.
Last years Grand national was won by Corach Rambler, who is back and looking to do the double at horse racing betting odds of just 4-1. That goes to show how confident bookmakers and punters alike are of his chances. I’m sure trainer Lucinda Russell’s is confident too considering the relative ease at which her horse romped home in the previous years National. Having also solidified a claim to being one of the best staying chasers around in this years Cheltenham Gold Cup, Russell has stated that the result and preparation is ‘exactly what we wanted’.
Bookmakers are worried, with one highlighting that since said performance “he has been absolutely hammered in the betting”. They’ll of course be hoping for a different result, but who else could be in the running?
One obvious contender is trainer Willie Mullins’ I am Maximus. At 7-1 and with a very impressive win in the Bobbyjo Chase at the tailed of February, it’s clearly a danger to the Corach Rambler fairytale ending. Those looking for slightly bigger odds might want to go with Mr Incredible at 14-1. While this talented chaser unseated jockey Brian Hayes in last years Grand National he’s had some very spirited displays (2nd in last seasons Classic Chase for instance). It’s another Mullins horse (he has nine in the 2024 Grand National!) too.
For those less inclined to bet on a favourite and more for a rank outsider, how about Delta Work at 25-1. He the Cross Country Chase at last years Cheltenham Festival and was also going well in the National until unseating his rider. Worth a shot at those odds surely.
I just now caught this humourous video from Betway giving us a somewhat comical reminder that the Cheltenham Festival is just around the corner . It’s certainly a timely nudge if you ask me as the unmissable 12th – 15th March Festival is under a month away now and punters both serious and casual, are surely all looking forward to this feast of top class racing action and who will emerge victorious in these compelling matchups. Over four days and on both ITV Racing and Racing TV there’s little excuse not to tune in, and of course that can often be accompanied with having a flutter too. With so many races to choose from there is certainly no shortage of betting opportunities.
Every festival has its narrative, as the Cheltenham festival betting attests, and a horse or person to be etched into the history books. This years question just has to be the answer to the question of whether the Audrey Turley owned and W P Mullions trained Galopin Des Champs can win the Cheltenham Gold cup two years running? Having won as favourite in 2023, he’s once again in that position and in ‘doing the double’ would enter the history books alongside only 8 others to have won the prestigious event more than once, last being the Willie Mullins trained (yes, again!) Al Boum Photo in both 2019 and 2020.
Racing is all about making legends and so it would certainly be fitting if Mullins once again struck Gold in 2023 and 2024 likely resulting in both him and rider Paul Townend winning champion trainer and jockey respectively (again!). Time will tell how events unfold and I for one can’t wait to find out. Bring on that Cheltenham Roar.