Bookmakers throw weight behind All-Weather Championships

The UK’s Arena Racing Company has confirmed title sponsorship deals with bookmakers 32Red, Ladbrokes, Coral and Bookmakers.co.uk for its new All-Weather Championships.

Commencing at Wolverhampton on October 26 and concluding at Lingfield Park on April 18 next year, the All-Weather Championships will comprise of six different races for three-year-olds, fillies and mares, marathon, sprint, mile and middle-distance horses.

32 Red will be the headline sponsor in the three-year-olds, fillies and mares and marathon categories, Bookmakers.co.uk will back the Sprint Championships and Ladbrokes and Coral take the rights to the Mile Championships and Middle Distance Championships respectively.

Approximately 1,500 races will take place across the championship season at the UK’s all-weather tracks at Lingfield, Wolverhampton, Southwell and the Jockey Club’s Kempton Park racecourse.