Daryl Jacob appeals against controversial 10-day ban But, more immediately, Kauto Star is to have a race named in his honour. What most punters will know as the Feltham Chase is now to be called the Kauto Star Feltham Novices Chase (in memory of Nigel Clark), appropriately run on Boxing Day, which hopefully will present the opportunity for Kauto to be paraded in front of his adoring public at least once a year. The sprightly former star is full of himself, particularly when back on a racecourse even for mundane parading purposes, as he showed at Sandown last Saturday. Bucking and kicking his way around the paddock. William Hill announced on Monday that they were extending their backing of the King George for a further three years, taking them up to December 2015, with 15 per cent more money injected through their Winter Festival package. This is welcome news for Jockey Club Racecourses in the challenging financial climate, and in keeping with their policy of trying to entice sponsors into long-term arrangements. Top of their priority list now is finding the right backer for the Grand National. Lord Daresbury, the Aintree chairman, was one of two new Stewards of the Jockey Club announced the same day, the other being Roger Weatherby, the chief executive of Weatherbys Bank. There are now 154 members of the Jockey Club, including 22 honorary members, which far from losing influence when handing power to a newly-named British Horseracing Board two decades ago, has as much muscle as ever through owning and controlling racecourses. Possibly, that is reflected in the appointment of four new members - Bernard Kantor (honorary), the managing director of Investec who recently announced their backing of the Derby at Epsom for a decade, Peter Jensen, chairman of Nottingham Racecourse, James Westoll, chairman of Carlisle, and John Warren, racing manager and bloodstock adviser to the Queen.