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Racing Post is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting publisher published in print and digital formats. It is printed in tabloid format from Monday to Sunday. As of December 2008 [update] , it has an average daily circulation of 60,629 copies.
Racehorse statue at Newmarket, the home of British horse racing. Horse racing is the second largest spectator sport in Great Britain, [ 1] and one of the longest established, with a history dating back many centuries. According to a report by the British Horseracing Authority it generates £3.39 billion total direct and indirect expenditure in ...
This prescribes that where a collective agreement is ‘already in force’ the procedure cannot take place. The Central Arbitration Committee had decided this was the situation since the Mirror News Group already had a recognition agreement with the British Association of Journalists. The BAJ formed in the early 1990s as a breakaway from the ...
Freud was a columnist for the Racing Post newspaper. Freud's enthusiasm for horse racing went as far as challenging Sir Hugh Fraser, then chairman of Harrods, to a horse race at Haydock in 1972. Freud trained for three months and lost some five stone for the event. Although Fraser, a country gentleman, was seen as a much better prospect, the ...
John Michael McCririck [1] (17 April 1940 – 5 July 2019) was an English horse racing pundit, television personality and journalist. McCririck began his career at The Sporting Life, where he twice won at the British Press Awards for his campaigning journalism, but his role was terminated in 1984. In 1981, he joined ITV Sport 's horse racing ...
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Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
Arkle Challenge Trophy. The Arkle Challenge Trophy is a Grade 1 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham, England, over a distance of about 2 miles (1 mile, 7 furlongs and 199 yards, or 3,199 metres), and during its running there are thirteen fences ...