Racing uncertainties

It'll be squeaky bum time now for the current racing presenters at Channel 4 and the BBC - who will end up alongside Clare Balding at the big events ? So far there's no suggestion from the new contract holders - C4 and IMG - that Clare will be turning up at the all-weather track at Fontwell, so some old stagers from both camps might survive at run-of-the mill meets. However, Jay Hunt is known for forming decisive opinions about presenters...

Maybe more worrying to the BBC will be the loss of Carl Hicks, (left - caught channelling Harry Hill) who gets to lead the C4 team. As well as Grand Nationals, Royal Ascots and Derbies, he's "edited" Rugby Union, Rugby League and athletics, winning a BAFTA in 2010, and supervising the Gary Lineker show most evenings during the Olympics.

Widnes-born Hicks goes way back with racing, tipping Troy, jockey Willie Carson, to win the Derby to 15-year-old schoolmates in 1979.