All systems go for Sprinter Sacre in Victor Chandler Chase This event usually takes place in a windowless boardroom within 75, High Holborn, but the British Horseracing Authority have taken the trouble this year to book the somewhat plusher surrounds of the Soho Hotel, lined up Lord Grimthorpe, Khalid Abdulla's racing manager, to be there and asked whether journalists will be accompanied by a television crew. Why all the fuss? Well it does not take a genius to work out that the red carpet treatment is for an announcement that Frankel will 'officially" become the 'best horse since records began." That may involve not only tinkering with the rating of 140 he ended last season with, but also some creative accounting with the ratings of a few previous 'greats. Yesterday Timeform - since it was taken over by Betfair a more commercial business than ever - got in a pre-emptive strike by announcing that their rating of 147 for Frankel made him the highest-rated horse in that organisation's sixty-plus year history. Normally that would have been a closed guarded secret until the publication in March of their 'Racehorses of 2012. Plumpton boost prize money by 37 per cent Plumpton, one of our best-run small independent racecourses, announced a 37 per cent increase in prize money for this season to coincide with Monday's meeting, their second fixture of 2013. The course will be offering £650,000 in prize money this year compared to £476,000 last year, with a significant chunk of it, £108,000, set aside for the popular Easter festival. The £25,000 Sussex Champion Hurdle, a new feature race, will be run on Easter Sunday. Captain Adrian Pratt, a director and shareholder in Plumpton having bought it with Peter Savill in 1998, also announced £170,000 worth of improvements to the enclosures, paddock and entrance to improve the racegoer experience, which will take place during Plumpton's close season between May and September. He also called for the BHA and Racing For Change (or Great British Racing as it is about to become) to get behind Sunday racing. Apart from the 1,000 Guineas and Greatwood Hurdle there's very little good racing on Sunday. Either you support it or you don't," he said.