Steeplechasing has been scrapped from two cards next week after the British Horseracing Authority confirmed a run of changes to the Jump programme, with a dry forecast leaving racecourses unable to guarantee suitable ground over fences. Lingfield Park on Tuesday 10 November and Hereford on Thursday 12 November will both lose their chases and stage hurdle-only cards instead. The governing body announced the alterations on Thursday 5 November. Replacement races added To fill th

Proxima Dea kept her perfect record intact with a commanding success in the Group 1 VRC Oaks at Flemington on Thursday, extending her unbeaten run to six races and adding a second top-level prize in the space of a fortnight. Trained by veteran David Payne and ridden by 23-year-old Zac Lloyd, the Sydney-based filly overcame the second-widest draw in a field of 16 to stretch clear over the 2,500-metre trip. She crossed the line a length and three-quarters ahead of the Rob Black

Conditional jockey Dylan O'Connor has been suspended for 14 race days and must forfeit his riding fee after Fairyhouse stewards found him in breach of Rule 212 over his ride on Sam's Favourite on Tuesday. The Adam Leahy-trained five-year-old, sent off at 20-1, came home tenth of the 15 runners in the second division of the William Hill Challenge Series Handicap Hurdle over two and a half miles. Following a running and riding inquiry, the stewards also banned the horse from ra