Horse Racing

Football
Sports Betting

Drop in advertising against football unlikely to impact media-rights income Value of shirt and LED inventory could increase Exemption likely to drive horse racing media-rights revenue When Britain’s b...
Horse Racing
Finance & Money

The Jockey Club is set to freeze prize money contributions at racetracks over fears of betting shop closures
Horse Racing
Events

Eight of the leading racecourses across England, Ireland and Scotland have been selected as hosts of the forthcoming horse racing competition The Series
Horse Racing
Stadia

Cheltenham Racecourse has won a ground-breaking High Court battle that will see ticket touts banned from the track, in a move that will have significant implications for the illegal ticketing market across...
Horse Racing
Business

Ascot digs into customer data to help double hospitality revenues in five years, adopting a data-driven approach to fine dining.
Horse Racing
Business

UK racecourse owner and operator Arena Racing Company (ARC) has further enhanced its portfolio by acquiring Wales’ Ffos Las Racecourse.

Horse Racing
Business

The Jockey Club, the largest commercial group in British horseracing, has unveiled a record set of financial results, including breaking through the £200m (€228.2m/$279.2m) revenue barrier for the first time.

Horse Racing
Events

Paris is being lined up to host the maiden event of a new street horseracing series, according to multiple reports.

Horse Racing
Business

Plans have been revealed to launch a new horse racing competition in the UK next year, based on a similar model as the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament.

Horse Racing
Business

A lucrative new horseracing event featuring a prize fund of more than $17m (€13.8m) is set to launch in Saudi Arabia.

Horse Racing
Business

GBI Racing, a joint venture between UK pay-television broadcasters Racing UK and At The Races, has agreed a £4.9m (€5.5m/$6.6m) compensation package with the Israeli government after the country moved to ban betting on horse racing.

Horse Racing
Finance & Money

The Al Shaqab horse-racing ownership group has told trainers that they will be paid soon after it was reported that the collective debts of the group had reached more than £1m (€1.1m/$1.4m).

Horse Racing
Business

Paul Fisher has been promoted to chief executive of Jockey Club Racecourses, the operating group of 15 racecourses in the UK.

Horse Racing
Business

The Jockey Club, the British horseracing commercial group, has posted record financial figures for 2016.
Horse Racing
Business

Simon Bazalgette is group CEO of The Jockey Club. Here he asks whether a collegiate or dictatorial approach works best in matters of governance and regulation.

Horse Racing
Events

Racing New South Wales and the Australian Turf Club have launched a new event which is set to become the world’s richest horse race staged on turf.
Horse Racing
Business

The British government has announced that the existing horseracing betting levy will in April be replaced by a new system that will require betting operators to return 10 per cent of their gross profits generated from bets placed on horseracing back to the sport.
Horse Racing
Business

British horseracing commercial group The Jockey Club has today (Tuesday) said that it could sell off its Kempton Park racecourse in order to help raise £500m (€574.2m/$608.6m) for reinvestment into the sport.
Horse Racing
Events

Will the China Horse Club succeed where other ventures have failed and take the sport into the mainstream in China? Ryan Herman reports.

Horse Racing

Previously the unchallenged force in global gambling, horse racing has come under pressure recently as punters move to in-play betting on other sports. Ryan Herman looks at how the sport is fighting back in the UK, US and France.