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BCS TV - Clare Balding Facebook/Twitter Q&A [14:32]
Clare answers a host of questions from British Champions Series fans from subjects ranging from Frankel to Justin Bieber!

1998 Breeders' Cup Classic - Awesome Again + Pre & Post Race [32:16]
On a day when Skip Away ran out of the money and lost his chance to become the world's richest race horse, Awesome Again won the world's richest race when he rushed through the pack in a blanket finish and snatched the $5.2 million Breeders' Cup Classic by three-quarters of a length over Silver Charm. Awesome Again not only won the laurels and the loot, but also his sixth straight start in a perfect year at the races. To do it, he needed to make a furious dash through the homestretch and knife his way through the 10-horse field to hit the finish line in front. But he did it, prevailing over one of the most impressive casts in racing history before a record Breeders' Cup crowd of 80452 at Churchill Downs. And he redeemed an agonizing choice made a year ago by his trainer, Patrick Byrne, who dominated the 1997 Breeders' Cup with two juvenile winners, Favorite Trick and Countess Diana, and then gave them up to take a new job with Frank Stronach of Canada. ''Favorite Trick was a part of history,'' Byrne said with feeling, explaining again why he would surrender the Horse of the Year. ''I loved him. But I was faced with a decision that I had to make. That's what horse racing is all about.'' Racing is also about Skip Away, the 5-year-old superstar who will now retire with career earnings of $9.6 million, about $400000 short of Cigar's record. But in his final performance at the races, just when he might have scored his greatest triumph, he stalked the leaders through most of ...

Michael Chopra And Two Other Footballers Accused Of Betting Corruption [01:18]
The Championship footballers Michael Chopra and James Coppinger and the jockey Andrew Heffernan are among nine individuals who could face long bans from racing after they were charged with serious breaches of the anti corruption rules by the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday.Yogesh Joshee Chopras agent also faces charges along with Mark Wilson a former player with Manchester United Paul Garner a former stable lad Kelly Inglis who is believed to have been Heffernans girlfriend at the time of the offences Douglas Shelley and Pravin Shingadia. The charges against them include offering bribes, exploiting inside information for personal gain and in the case of Heffernan, three charges that he intentionally failed to ensure that a horse was ridden on its merits.The BHA charges follow an investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a number of races at Britain's four all-weather racecourses between November 2010 and March 2011. In all, nine races are at the heart of the BHA's case, including four at Southwell, three at Lingfield and one each at Wolverhampton and Kempton.

Course Flyover for the Nayef Joel Stakes [00:51]
The route the runners will face over the Rowley Mile

Course Flyover for the Ladbrokes St Leger [01:11]
The historic mile and three-quarter route the runners will face in the World's oldest Classic