The BHA has today confirmed an amendment to the 2025 Fixture List regarding Newmarket’s three-day Craven meeting in April.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) for a Welfare Operations Executive. The successful candidate will assist RoR’s Head of Welfare in delivering and fulfilling RoR’s ...

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) can confirm that the four Hurdle races scheduled to take place at Leicester’s fixture ...

Welcome to the BHA’s Guide to Handicapping. Here you will find all you need to understand how handicapping works in British racing. If you do not find what you are looking for, please feel free to ...

Racing is everyone’s sport: Our vision is for racing to be a diverse and inclusive sport in which everyone can achieve their potential and where fans from all communities feel welcome. British ...

It has been long recognised that inexperienced jockeys benefit from structured coaching when race riding to improve and develop their skills. With 74 races across 7 series, including both flat and ...

Horseracing in Britain is among the world’s best regulated animal activities. Responsibility for the care of our animals rests with everyone in the sport. From the people who independently govern and ...

We calculate a performance figure for every horse in every race. This is the rating we think each horse has achieved in a particular race, given a variety of factors, and are expressed on an identical ...

Races restricted to horses that have never won a race under that specific code – that is, on the Flat or over hurdles. Open to maidens but also to winners of either one or two races. The winners ...

British racing is proud of its record on horse welfare and the improvements it has made over many years to the safety of horses and jockeys. Nothing is more important than the safety of our ...

British racing’s leaders recognise the shared challenges facing the sport and the need to work together to address them. From areas like more prize money and competitive field sizes, through horse ...

An initial handicap mark will often be the best performance figure that a horse has achieved in (what will usually be) three qualifying runs. If a horse has a performance figure of 70 on each of its ...