HAYDOCK Racecourse is set for more television exposure following the announcement of the racing fixtures for 2005.
As a result of negotiations with the BBC, several of Haydock's principal National Hunt races are being given more prominent slots in the calendar.
The major Cheltenham Festival trial races - the Peter Marsh Chase, the Champion Hurdle Trial, and the Premier Long Distance Hurdle - revert to their traditional Saturday date in the second half of January.
The Red Square Vodka Gold Cup - a big Grand National trial and the racecourse's richest jumps race - moves forward a week in February.
And the Swinton Hurdle - the first major event of the National Hunt Season in Britain - is moved back a week and is no longer on the same day as the 2000 Guiness at Newmarket.
More details about racing at Haydock are available online at HYPERLINK "http://www.haydock-park.co.uk" www.haydock-park.co.uk
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