Brendan O’Brien talks about the "challenges, strategies, and governance of sport in Ireland" and what the men in charge plan to do about them.

Racing in Britain received a seismic jolt yesterday after Jockey Club Racecourses announced that Kempton, home of the historic King George VI Chase, could be closed for housing redevelopment “from 2021 at the earliest”.

Sandown has announced Close Brothers as the new sponsor of Saturday’s Imperial Cup — but no winning cash bonus for following up at the Cheltenham Festival will be on offer.

Gary Moore has raised the possibility of Sire De Grugy wearing a pair of blinkers as he attempts to regain his Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase crown next week.

Younger people are more influenced by social media, their parents should be aware.

A chance meeting at a wedding sent Limerick’s Ian Lynam down a road of intricate contracts, sports law and representing some of the biggest names in European football. And at a time when image rights, stats and analytics was being embraced by some of football’s top clubs as they bid to get that competitive edge on their Premier League rivals...

French raider Epicuris has his sights set firmly on the Investec Derby as the field for the Epsom Classic began to take shape yesterday.

The global sports betting market is worth up to $3,000,000,000,000 (three trillion), the vast majority of that generated by illegal gambling, a United Nations conference on crime being held in Doha has heard.

There was, unfortunately, no fairytale ending for the soon-to-retire AP McCoy in the last race of this year’s Cheltenham Festival — one renamed in his honour for the occasion.

French star-in-waiting Prince Gibraltar stands in front of The Grey Gatsby as Kevin Ryan’s colt pitches for Classic glory in tomorrow’s Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly.

With Frankel’s final hurrah seemingly only hours away, his retirement will leave a big hole in the racing fraternity.

Crestfallen owner Harry Findlay has vowed to lodge an appeal after being warned off for six months in connection with laying his own horse, Gullible Gordon, on two occasions.

Michael Bell travelled to France and completed a career milestone as Allied Powers provided him with his 1000th training success in the Grand Prix de Chantilly.

Vision D’Etat overcame an 11th hour injury scare to complete a memorable afternoon for France as the Royal Ascot winner gave trainer Eric Libaud another Sha Tin winner in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup.

Trainer Eric Libaud is confident Vision D'Etat will feature in tomorrow's Hong Kong Cup despite being found with slight swelling to his right hind fetlock.

BARBERS Shop bids to put to an end a long line of unsuccessful, yet creditable, efforts by Royal runners at the Cheltenham Festival today.

STEVE COLLINS’s original sporting ambition was to be a jockey.

Juan Martin Hernandez has been included in the Argentina squad for next month’s tour of Europe after recovering from a hand injury.

Former Leinster prop Juan Francisco Gomez has been ruled out of Argentina's one-off international against South Africa due to a knee injury.

If first impressions count, the Hong Kong Jockey Club is off to a good start as far as Olympic event rider Captain Geoff Curran is concerned.

Wet weather has hit Chantilly this week with the ground currently testing ahead of Sunday’s Prix du Jockey Club.

Ex-British runner Helene Mascot bids to become only the second horse to complete the Hong Kong Derby and Queen Elizabeth II Cup double at Sha Tin on Sunday.

City of London police today announced a sweeping review of their disastrous horse racing corruption investigation.

Millionaire jockey Kieren Fallon’s race-fixing trial collapsed today.

The head of security for British horseracing today denied making a drunken claim that he was out to get Kieren Fallon if it was the "last thing" he did.

One of the jockeys accused of throwing races in a multi-million pound betting scam declared he had given his horse a “good ride” in one of the suspected races, the Old Bailey in London heard today.

PROFESSIONAL gambler Miles Rodgers was suspected of having more than a dozen secret accounts with an internet betting firm, the Kieren Fallon trial was told yesterday.

Professional gambler Miles Rodgers was suspected of having more than a dozen secret accounts with an internet betting firm, the Kieren Fallon trial was told today.

The suggestion that top jockey Kieren Fallon was deliberately trying to lose races was “simply ridiculous”, a betting scam trial was told yesterday.

Top jockey Kieren Fallon came second in a race which he should have won “at a canter”, the £2m (€2.8m) race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey was told today.

KIEREN FALLON sent a “revealing” series of text messages the day after winning a race that he was supposed to have lost as part of a race-fixing plot, a court heard yesterday.

Kempton Park are looking into naming a race in memorial to their popular president and former chairman Nigel Clark, who died on Saturday.

French Derby winner Lawman will bid for consecutive Group One victories at Chantilly in the Prix Jean Prat.

Tom Greenway has been given a clean bill of health despite suffering concussion at Sedgefield on Tuesday.

Plans by a horse-racing consortium to buy the Tote were thwarted by the British government today.

The UK’s largest horse racing operator today confirmed it had been involved in talks regarding an industry-wide bid for state-owned bookmaker the Tote.

A horse-racing industry consortium has made a formal bid for the Tote, the British government-owned bookmaker, below its £400m (€594m) price tag, it was reported today.

Irish jockey Kieren Fallon is back in the saddle today in Turkey after he failed in a court bid to have his British racing ban overturned.

IRISH superstar jockey Kieren Fallon was charged yesterday following a London police investigation into allegations of corruption in racing.

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon was one of 11 people charged today in relation to the City of London police investigation into allegations of corruption in racing.

Kieren Fallon and Robert Winston are set to learn today if they will face charges in Britain’s biggest horse racing corruption investigation.