Scott Burton

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

Good Friday means the richly endowed All-Weather Finals card at Newcastle is at the heart of a bumper 11 races on ITV, with Lingfield's consolation card and one race from Chelmsford ensuring a relentless pace to the coverage across a three-and-a-quarter hour show. Given that this is the original movable feast and that Easter falls late in the calendar, punters are faced with extra information about stable form that is not always available for this fixture.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

Former France Galop president Edouard de Rothschild has accused his successors of taking an "unthinkable" decision in amalgamating two key conditions races on Longchamp's card on Thursday. But his successors at the governing body have defended the decision as being based on "economic reality".

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

Two jockeys have been punished this month for breaches of different but very much related rules. Adam Farragher went before an independent panel last Monday to appeal against a seven-day ban for "failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing" aboard McIntosh at Kempton last month.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton |Peter Scargill

Scottish Grand National-winning owner Vincent Caldwell says he is delighted to have played a part in helping to bring Willie Mullins within sight of a second British trainers' title, although he expressed sympathy for Dan Skelton should he lose his longtime lead before the season's end at Sandown on Saturday week.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

What's the big story? Might we have a new favourite for the Betfred 2,000 Guineas by the close of play? Faced with confirmation that The Lion In Winter is being aimed at the Dante, his Ballydoyle understudies Twain and Expanded head a far-from-mature market for the Classic on May 3 and an impressive performance in the bet365 Craven Stakes (3.35) would certainly shake things up.