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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 2011 fixture list is finally available and shows a cut back of only 23 meetings from this years 1503.

Below are all the changes:

CHAMPIONS DAY - Ascot, 15 October, 2011

Champion Stakes (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (25 Sep, Ascot, 2010)

Diadem Stakes (26 Sep, Ascot, 2010)

Pride Stakes (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Jockey Club Cup (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

FUTURE CHAMPIONS DAY - Newmarket, 8 October, 2011

Dewhurst Stakes (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Middle Park Stakes (1 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Darley Stakes (15 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Rockel Stakes (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Challenge Stakes (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Cesarewitch (16 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

THE BRITISH CHAMPIONS SERIES

Sprint: Temple Stakes, King's Stand Stakes, Golden Jubilee Stakes, July Cup, Nunthorpe Stakes, Sprint Cup, Diadem Stakes

Mile: 2000 Guineas, Lockinge Stakes, St James's Palace Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes, Sussex Stakes, Joel Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes

Middle Distance: Coronation Cup, Derby, Prince of Wales's Stakes, Eclipse, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, International Stakes, Champion Stakes

Fillies and Mares: 1000 Guineas, Oaks, Coronation Stakes, Falmouth Stakes, Nassau Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks, Pride Stakes

Long Distance: Yorkshire Cup, Gold Cup, Goodwood Cup, Lonsdale Cup, Doncaster Cup, St Leger, Jockey Club Cup

OTHER FLAT RACING CHANGES

Newmarket 23 September 2011

Fillies' Mile (25 Sep, Ascot, 2010)

Joel Stakes (1 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Newmarket 24 September 2011

Cambridgeshire (2 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

Sun Chariot Stakes (2 Oct, Newmarket, 2010)

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 support" 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".