All-Weather Championships

Season 12 of the All-Weather Championships kicks off at Newcastle on Tuesday, October 22, and once again culminates on Good Friday, April 18, with Finals Day at Newcastle and the All-Weather Vase at Lingfield Park. The £1-million Finals Day at Newcastle includes amendments to the BetUK Marathon Final, with the field size increased to 20 and a prize fund of £175,000 (from £150,000). The structure of the All-Weather Championships remains largely unchanged, with horses requiring a minimum of three runs on all-weather surfaces in Britain, Ireland and France during the...

Arena Racing Company (ARC), the largest racing group in Britain, and 1/ST, who maintains a large portfolio of tracks in North America, will team to offer new opportunities for some of their feature races, the organizations announced in a joint release Tuesday. The winners of certain races at Doncaster will be offered free entry into some of the marquee events when Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, stages the inaugural California Crown on 28 September and select races on the Pegasus World Cup undercard at Gulfstream Park near Miami, Florida,...

Season XI of the All-Weather Championships is set to kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and culminates back at the same venue with the £1-million All-Weather Championships Finals Day on Mar. 29, 2024, with the £395,000 All-Weather Championships Vase set for the same day at Lingfield Park. This year there are some notable changes to the structure of the All-Weather Championships, including removing the 'Fast Track Qualifier' status from races which previously earned horses a guaranteed entry to the Final in each category. The rule requiring three runs on an...

Saturday's card at Wolverhampton, which includes two Fast-Track Qualifiers for the All-Weather Championships, has attracted some classy entrants, including the dual Group 1 winner Angel Bleu (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}). The four-year-old looks set to start his 2023 campaign in the Listed Spreadex Sports Lady Wulfruna S., in which he could face the G2 Coventry S winner of 2021, Berkshire Shadow (Ire), who is also by Dark Angel. "Angel Bleu has been in training all winter and the intention is to start him off at Wolverhampton on Saturday," said trainer...

The prizemoney investment plans for the Arena Racing Company's Programme Book One 2022, which runs from January through April, were confirmed on Thursday. These initiatives are part of ARC's £21.7 million 2022 prizemoney investment plan. The All-Weather Championships will be held at Newcastle for the first time, as previously announced, and Flat racing will return to Southwell with a new Tapeta surface. The £40,000 Coral Winter Oaks Trial will be held at that course on Dec. 7. There will also be Flat Class 5 and 6 bonuses to the winning...

The All-Weather Championships Finals Day will be held at Newcastle for the first time on Good Friday, Apr. 15, 2022. Started by the Arena Racing Company in 2013, the All-Weather Championships are now in its ninth season which begins on Tuesday, Oct. 19. There are six All-Weather Championships races, and the Listed Coral Burradon S. carded for Good Friday with total prizemoney on offer over £1 million. Lingfield, which previously hosted the meeting, will instead hold the new £395,000 All-Weather Vase that same day. The All-Weather Vase card, featuring six...

Jockey Richard Kingscote, trainer Michael Appleby and apprentice jockey Marco Ghiani took their respective all-weather seasonal titles with the conclusion of the season at Lingfield on Friday. Kingscote rode 79 winners-seven more than runner-up Hollie Doyle-for his first champion all-weather jockey title. "It has been a great winter from start to finish," Kingscote said. "I am very grateful for all the support and my agent Guy Jewel has done a good job. It has been a solid season to ride 79 winners and they have flowed nicely through the year....