January, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Longines Ceremony to be Live Streamed

The 2022 Longines World Racing Awards ceremony will be live-streamed on the social media accounts of Longines and the International Federation of Horse Racing Authorities, the IFHA announced Friday. The ceremony is scheduled to be Tuesday, Jan. 17 January 2023 at 2:15 British time, and 9:15 a.m. EST. The event will honor the Longines World's Best Racehorse and the Longines World's Best Horse Race of the 2022 season.

The in-person event will take place at Banqueting House in London. This year marked the 400th anniversary of the building, which is one of the Historic Royal Palaces and is the only surviving portion of the lost Palace of Whitehall. The live stream of the ceremony will be released on multiple digital platforms including World Horse Racing. Additionally, multiple other racing industry players from around the globe will show the awards, including the TDN on its homepage, and on our social media channels.

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2023 Flat Pattern Updated By BHA

Changes have been made to the Flat Pattern and Listed Programme for 2023, the British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) Flat Pattern Committee confirmed on Friday.

Focusing primarily on reducing the number of Group 3 and listed races, these are the first changes announced to help improve the performance of Britain's black-type races. Additional changes will be announced next month. These short-term measures are aimed at boosting field sizes and increasing this year's black-type race competitiveness. Other means of strengthening the race programme in 2024 and beyond are being developed through the sport's industry strategy. The following Group 3 and listed races will no longer form part of the Pattern and Listed Programme for 2023:

Listed Leisure S., Windsor Racecourse (6f, 3yo+, May)
Listed Royal Windsor S., Windsor racecourse (8f, 3yo+, May)
Listed Fairway S., Newmarket Racecourse (10f, 3yo, May)
Listed Buckhounds S., Ascot Racecourse (12f, 4yo+, May)
Listed Midsummer S., Windsor Racecourse (8f, 3yo+, July)
Listed Denford S., Newbury Racecourse (7f, 2yo, August)
G3 Supreme S., Goodwood Racecourse (7f, 3yo+, August)
G3 March S., Goodwood Racecourse (14f, 3yo, August)
G3 Legacy Cup S., Newbury Racecourse (11f, 3yo+, September)

In addition, the Listed European Free Handicap S., Newmarket Racecourse (7f, 3yo, April) and the Listed King Richard III S., Leicester Racecourse (7f, 4yo+, April) will also not be staged in 2023. An adjustment to the winter All-Weather programme will see the Listed Winter Derby Trial at Lingfield Park (10f, 4yo+, February) shortened to a mile and renamed the Listed Tandridge S. (8f, 4yo+, Feb. 4).

BHA Director of International Racing and Racing Development, Ruth Quinn, said, “The quality and competitiveness of our Flat Pattern and Listed Programme is fundamental, not just to long-term reputation and sustainability of British racing, but also to the strength of the thoroughbred breed.

“Work is already underway, as part of the industry's long-term strategy, to deliver substantive improvements to the way our racing is structured, presented and promoted.

“This includes continually enhancing the performance of our black-type programme under both codes, and ensuring that the best horses continue to be bred, owned, trained, and raced in Britain.

“The changes to the programme for 2023 are the first of a series of measures, which aim to help address some of the immediate challenges in our black-type contests, particularly around field sizes and race competitiveness, ahead of further, more fundamental, improvements–with racecourses involved in the process from the outset–for 2024 and beyond.

“Work also continues through the Jump Pattern Committee to deliver a package of measures in time for the 2023/24 season, with changes to the Jump Pattern and Listed Programme to be announced prior to the 2023 Cheltenham Festival.”

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The Friday Show Presented By PHBA Stallion Auction: Steeplechase Primer From Trainer Keri Brion

Trainer Keri Brion is this week's guest on the Friday Show, where she advocates for steeplechase racing and for Eclipse Awards voters not to skip over that category and abstain in year-end voting for racing's annual championships.

Brion, who opened a public stable in 2021 that includes horses racing over jumps and on the flat, is a former assistant to Hall of Fame conditioner Jonathan Sheppard, who retired from training in 2021. She campaigned steeplechase Eclipse Award winner The Mean Queen in her first full year of training and in 2022 became just the second trainer to exceed $1 million in steeplechase earnings in a single season in North America.

Brion's appearance is a followup to the Jan. 6 Friday Show in which voting for 2022 Eclipse Awards was discussed and both bloodstock editor Joe Nevills and guest Andrew Champagne said they abstained from voting in the steeplechase category. Their comments and an earlier Making Claims column by Nevills elicited a letter from steeplechase trainer Kate Dalton and a subsequent wave of comments on social media.

Brion offers a primer to Nevills and publisher Ray Paulick on the sport itself and efforts to grow its popularity, some of steeplechasing's most important races, differences in race courses, the type of horses she looks for to convert to jumps, and the similarities to training horses for the two disciplines. It's a lively and interesting discussion that Brion hopes will lead to a better understanding of the game and fewer abstentions in future Eclipse Awards voting.

Watch this week's episode of the Friday Show below:

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ARC Business Programme Announced

The 39th Asian Racing Conference Business Programme was revealed on Friday. Set for Wednesday, Feb. 15, the ARC Business Programme will begin with “The Landscape”, a scene-setting session that will explore the changing landscape of sport.

ARF Chairman Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, also CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, will share his vision for the future of global racing and the opportunities and the barriers that line that path to that future. Other speakers include Masayuki Goto, Vice-Chairman of ARF and President and CEO of the Japan Racing Association, British Horseracing Authority CEO Julie Harrington, former Victorian Attorney-General and Racing Minister Martin Pakula, Chairman of the Australian Turf Club Peter McGauran, and Harvey Norman CEO and Magic Millions co-principal Katie Page-Harvey.

For more information about the business programme and the speakers list, please visit the Asian Racing Conference website.

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