By Marc Owen-Banks

British Horse Racing Revamp for 2011
27/09/10

A British Horse Racing 2011 revamp will include a 3m Champions day at Ascot.

2011 will dawn a new era in British horse racing as the calendar has been ripped up and started again. A brand new championship has been created, culminating in a champions day at Ascot late in the season. The series will be worth 13million in all, and the final day on 15th October will be worth 3m in prize money alone.

It marks just one change in a whole host of others as many big meetings have been moved to Saturdays as was rumoured to be on the agenda all year. Both York's Ebor meeting and the July meeting at Newmarket will have their finales on Saturdays now instead of the Fridays.

The Cheveley Park Stakes (1 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Royal lodge Stakes (25 Sep, Ascot, 2010)

NATIONAL HUNT CHANGES

Sandown - Finale meeting, Saturday 24 April and Sunday 25 April (Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April, 2010). Now on Easter weekend.

Aintree - Becher meeting, Saturday 4 December, 2011 (Sunday 21 November, 2010). To provide "much stronger " to Sandown meeting on same day, which includes Tingle Creek Chase.

Newbury - Challow Hurdle Day, Saturday 31 December, 2011 (Wednesday 29 December, 2010). Means race meeting will be televised and "provide a suitably strong fixture on the final Saturday of 2011".