Category: British Horse Racing

A midday inspection will be held at Cheltenham on Friday ahead of Saturday's Festival Trials Day, with parts of the course still frozen.

Almost 7% of rides would have breached British horseracing's new whip rules during the first week of the trial period for jump jockeys.

Former jockey Danny Brock is banned from horse racing for 15 years for his part in a corrupt betting conspiracy.

Record-breaking jockey Hollie Doyle faces a spell on the sidelines after breaking her elbow in a fall.

• BHA panel found Brock deliberately stopped horses
• Case concerned three races in late 2018 and early 2019

Danny Brock, a jockey on the Flat from 2009 to 2021, will face a significant ban after the British Horseracing Authority’s independent disciplinary panel decided on Tuesday he had deliberately stopped three horses as part of a conspiracy to profit from betting on their races.

The BHA’s case against Brock and five other individuals, including Sean McBride, the son and assistant of the Newmarket trainer Philip “Charlie” McBride, concerned three races at all-weather tracks between December 2018 and March 2019.

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Sam Thomas-trained Iwilldoit returns to win the Classic Chase, 383 days after victory in his last race at the Welsh Grand National.

Top jockey Davy Russell is temporarily coming out of retirement, just over three weeks after quitting the saddle, to step in for injured Jack Kennedy.

Top Irish jockey Jack Kennedy could be out of action for some time after a fall at Naas which also led to the death of his horse.