Trainer Mark Johnston has been appointed as a director of the British Horseracing Authority.

British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Coward will leave the organisation in the spring.

George Baker is to take a giant step in his training career by moving to the historic Whitsbury Manor Stables in Hampshire.

Promising three-year-old hurdler Pistolet Noir has joined the Paul Nicholls stable after being bought privately out of Nick Williams' yard by Andy Stewart and Paul Roy.

Kauto Star was crowned Horse of the Year for the second time at the Anglo-Irish Jump Awards in London today.

David Thorpe, the chairman of the Racecourse Association in the UK, believes sponsorship for this year could be down 40% as the recession filters through and impacts on the racing industry.

Sixties Icon could be back out again at Newbury on Saturday week following his triumphant return to form in the Group Three Glorious Stakes.

Sixties Icon drops back to a mile and a quarter for the first time in two years for the Letheby & Christopher Festival Stakes at Goodwood on Thursday.

Reducing the number of race meetings is among the key recommendations following an extensive strategic review of the British fixture list.

Jeremy Noseda and British Horseracing Authority chairman Paul Roy have a bright prospect to look forward to in 2008 if the manner of Forgotten Voice’s debut at Lingfield is anything to go by.

Dutch Art has been retired and will take up stallion duties at the Cheveley Park Stud.

CHELTENHAM Gold Cup winner Kauto Star was hailed as one of the greatest chasers in recent times after claiming top honours at the second annual Anglo-Irish Jump Racing Awards in London yesterday.

LAST YEAR’S winner Hurricane Run will be bidding to join an exclusive roll of honour at Longchamp tomorrow, as just six horses have done the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe double – five of them in successive years – with the last being the Vincent O’Brien-trained Alleged under Lester Piggott in 1978.

Frankie Dettori guided Jeremy Noseda’s 11-8 favourite Sixties Icon to glory in the Ladbrokes St Leger at York.