Three thoroughbred colts put their unbeaten records on the line in the opening Classic of the Flat racing season … the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourses which launches the 2013 QIPCO British Champions Series.

1. The race name comes from the original prize-money – a guinea amounted to £1.05 or 21 shillings. It is the second of the five Classic races held in Britain and is one of two restricted to fillies. The 200th QIPCO 1000 Guineas this year is worth £400,000 in prize-money.
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It's one of the greatest steeplechases in the world and this year's John Smith’s Grand National is run at Aintree on Saturday 6th April: it's a spectacle that never fails to get hearts racing as fast as the horses.

Top girl group The Saturdays will get the 2013 John Smith’s Grand National meeting off to a flying start on Grand Opening Day, Thursday, 4 April.

The Cheltenham Festival is not only the highlight of the UK and Irish National Hunt (jumps) racing season but it’s also a world-class sporting event. 

A Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening will be held in Glasgow in aid of Maggies Centres & St Andrews Hospice, which the organisers claim is "the very first of its type coming to Scotland".

Four exciting days of racing kick off on Tuesday 12th March....

The Ladbrokes World Hurdle is one of the youngest races at The Festival.

The Jewson Novices’ Chase was introduced at The Festival in 2011.

The John Oaksey National Hunt Chase has been run more times than any other race at The Festival.

The Racing Post Arkle Chase was inaugurated with its current title in 1969, after Arkle’s three wins in the Cheltenham Gold Cup (1964–66).

The RSA Chase is run with its current title for the fifth time this year, although the race is backed by one of Cheltenham’s longest-running sponsors.