Racing Post Pocket Diary 2023

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The Windsor Castle ( 6.10 ), a Listed race for two-year-olds over the minimum distance of 5f, will be fast and furious, while the Kensington Palace Fillies' Handicap ( 3.05 ) and the Royal Hunt Cup ( 5.00 ) are extremely competitive events. Lots of questions still to be answered but British racing is being asked to lose its fear of failure

Here is a list of all the upcoming UK horse fixtures for 2023. October Horse Race Meetings in BritainThe big race: The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee is run over 6f and open to four-year-olds and upwards. The Australian sprinter Artorius heads the market for this year's running after finishing third behind Naval Crown last year, with a host of international challengers and top European sprinters on course for a cavalry charge up the long Ascot straight.

The top action keeps coming on day two of the royal meeting. The feature Group 1 is the Prince of Wales's ( 4.20 ), which is supported by three Group 2s – the Queen Mary ( 2.30 ), the Duke of Cambridge ( 3.40 ) and the Queen's Vase ( 5.35 ). A programme of 1,478 meetings was unveiled, just four down on the total when this year's list was released.

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The meetings will feature higher prize-money with the aim of showcasing the best races in a bid to increase fan engagement, improve revenues, recruit and retain owners and encourage the best horses to be trained and raced in Britain. Owners have always been incredibly loyal in their support of British racing, but we are experiencing a significant growth in the number of higher-rated horses being sold overseas and, over jumps, an increasing number of the best horses being based elsewhere. The published list may well increase slightly as it does not include fixtures for the Sunday Series or the Racing League, which will be added if and when they are confirmed. Armstrong, not surprisingly, rejected those views. He said: "There were many racecourse representatives involved in creating that [Savill] work, so it's supported by those involved and I agree that there are some really good ideas in there, which we look forward to discussing as part of the industry strategy meeting on September 19 and 20. The RCA is far from against change – we just want to make the right change.

Harrington said the BHA would "absolutely" be happy "fronting up" to things that had not worked. She added: "I think the sport as a whole needs to not be scared of trying things and openly admitting that things didn't work because I do think there is a culture change required. If you think there is just going to be a massive pile-on every time something hasn't quite gone to plan then it is just going to stifle the appetite to try anything new." The big horse: The 2021 Derby and King George winner Adayar is the star name in his bid for a third top-level success in the Prince of Wales's . He returned with an easy win in the Gordon Richards Stakes and the form has been franked. He will have to reverse last year's Champion Stakes form when second to the reopposing Bay Bridge. I'm optimistic we will see some quite exciting and innovative changes for 2024, not least in terms of considering the Peter Savill recommendations. Another element is the jumps review as is the strategy review in September, so I would expect work from that to definitely change the 2024 fixture list. The simple fact of the matter is this – the sport has to take radical steps if it is to retain its pre-eminent place in British culture and at the pinnacle of world racing. The changes we are introducing for 2024 are a significant first step in this process." They could include fewer, more or the same fixtures, but you'd do it differently, or smarter. We get trapped sometimes by measuring things – the fixtures or races – and that's not the only way to look at it; are we running the right races for the right horses on the right day? I'm sure there are ways we can do that much better."The creation of a protected window between 2pm and 4pm for Premier racedays on Saturday to control the number of fixtures, allowing them "room to breathe" to improve revenues from betting and media rights She can gatecrash the party and 25-1 looks too big' - our experts provide their best bets for Royal Ascot The BHA has put forward a number of possible changes – individually small, but collectively valuable – but the trainers did not want to discuss them."