Afternoon meetings at Cartmel and Yarmouth, night racing at Newbury and Ripon

Naylor's Nag: Barrelbio - 3.40 Cartmel. Recommended stake £10 win Running total on an initial tax-free £100 bank Naylor's Nag: £117.41 (up £17.41)

Sussex Racing News Goodwood will mark the 100th birthday of Queen of the Queen Mother by dedicating the Molecomb Stakes to her. To be run on the Queen Mother's birthday, Friday, August 4, as part of the Glorious Goodwood meeting, the race is named Her Majesty the Queen Mother's 100th Birthday Molecomb Stakes.

The choice of race is appropriate. In the Twenties, Queen Elizabeth frequently stayed at Molecomb House, now the residence of the Duke of Richmond.

The Duke said: "She was a close friend of my aunt, Lady Doris Vyner, who lived at Molecomb. Before she married the Duke of York, later King George VI, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, as she was then, used to stay there for Goodwood which traditionally brought the social season to a close."

The Queen Mother has long been a horse-racing enthusiast and her first winner was Monaveen, whom she shared with her daughter, the Queen, at Fontwell in 1949. While the Queen then became totally involved in flat racing, the Queen Mother went on to have more than 400 winners under National Hunt rules.

Meanwhile, Goodwood Race Course unveiled plans for the new season and beyond at a reception in the Richmond Stand this week. The most radical development will be a new low-level parade ring on the site of the existing one, together with an underground weighing room complex.

This will vastly increase the viewing potential of the parade ring, allowing up to 5,000 race-goers to study the horses before racing and to have a clear view of the winners enclosure afterwards.

General manager Rod Fabricius said: "We are particularly happy about re-arranging the parade ring on a level base with improved viewing. The present walking ring slopes and this can affect the way a horse walks and therefore negate the value of pre-race paddock inspections."

Work on the £4m development begins at the end of September and will include three glass-fronted and covered pavilions each with their own terrace. More immediately, the 20-day season, which opens on May 23 boasts an eight per cent increase in prize money, at £2.576m.

The most valuable race is the Champagne Lanson Sussex Stakes, won last year by Frankie Dettori on Aljabr. The total prize fund for this Group One championship mile event is £250,000. The fund for the other Group One race on the course, the Vodaphone Nassau Stakes for fillies, also run in August, stands at £135,000.

Sponsors and the horse race betting levy board are responsible for about £1.7m between them and Champagne Lanson return to Goodwood for the 26th successive year as main sponsor.