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He is joining the City Reds on a two-year contract and will arrive at The Willows in early January. The winger Steve Booth has signed a one-year contract with the new Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants club. Nine areas of the country are being targeted in new efforts to raise the profile of women's and girls' rugby league. The Rugby League Policy Board has announced the setting up of five panels in East/North Yorkshire, Wakefield/South Yorkshire, Leeds/Bradford, Wigan/ Warrington and Rochdale to oversee the development of the female game. Each panel will produce a one-year action plan to spread the gospel and create awareness in women's rugby ahead of the 2000 Women's World Series, which will be run alongside the Lincoln World Cup. The game has produced 520 new coaches since the introduction of its Coach Education Programme just under 12 months ago. With the referee Steve Presley wired with a microphone, enabling him to explain decisions to the crowd, the Japanese conceded three tries in the opening 10 minutes as they struggled to handle the much stronger home pack, led by the St Helens duo of Vila Matautia and Julian O'Neill. Japan play Canada today needing a win to stay in the tournament. The group winners will meet the winners of the Mediterranean Cup on Sunday week also in Orlando, with the ultimate prize being the 16th and final place in next year's World Cup. Salford have received work permit clearance for the Australian forward James Smith. The choice of venue means that Saints fans will have to visit the home of their arch-rivals. Wigan's new JJB Stadium will stage the World Club Championship between St Helens, the Super League Grand Final winners, and Melbourne Storm, the Australian title holders, on Saturday 22 January. The choice of venue means that Saints fans will have to visit the home of their arch-rivals. The £28m JJB Stadium was chosen ahead of Saints' Knowsley Road and Bolton's Reebok Stadium, which was controversially preferred by the Rugby Football League for the semi-finals of the 2000 World Cup, because it has has undersoil heating and a larger capacity. After being ignored for the World Cup Dave Whelan, the owner of the stadium, vowed not to make it available to the League for big matches in future but the World Club Championship comes under the jurisdiction of Super League. Wigan were the first winners of the World Club Championship in 1987-88 and they were victorious the last time it was held, in 1994, when they beat Brisbane Broncos in Queensland. The United States took first blood in the World Cup qualifying tournament with a 54-0 defeat of Japan at the Disney Wide World of Sport complex in Orlando yesterday.

Whether that is enough to wipe away the bloody fingerprints, however, is something that each of us needs to decide for ourselves.. Wigan's new JJB Stadium will stage the World Club Championship between St Helens, the Super League Grand Final winners, and Melbourne Storm, the Australian title holders, on Saturday 22 January. There are all sorts of factors involved, of course, but it seems that if a horse is fundamentally sound, you don't prejudice that soundness by racing it." No amount of research will ever make racing entirely safe at any level, but it is also true that much is being done to reduce the risks. In fact, according to Peter Webbon, the Jockey Club's chief veterinary advisor, research at the Animal Health Trust has shown that horses which make their debut as a four-year-old are three times more likely to suffer a life-threatening injury later in their career than those which made their debut at two. "People think that when you race horses at two, you store up problems for later in life," Webbon says "In fact, they seem to be more durable. "A classic case was the 13th fence at Cheltenham, the downhill fence, which was causing a tremendous amount of fallers because horses were caught out by the fact that the ground dropped away at a time when they were really racing.

By levelling-off the landing, the faller rate has been radically reduced without reducing the quality of the racing." The veterinary aspects of racing, of how horses react to the strains of racing, are also the subject of continuous research. Sometimes, the results fly in the face of received wisdom, such as the belief that horses raced as two-year-olds are more susceptible to injury later in their careers. We tried a number of positions, and finally got it to one where there are nothing like the problems that there used to be." Some racegoers might argue that difficult fences are all part of the challenge, and that the achievement of winning is diminished by too much tinkering. Goodhew, though, insists that all he is trying to do is ensure a fair test, and recalls a series of falls at what was then the Mackeson meeting, back in the early 1990s, to prove his point. "What we're trying to avoid is trapping a horse," he says. But in recent years the department has also commissioned research into the effects of soil compaction, and of different varieties of grass, on the horses that must race on it. "We keep the statistics on obstacles under review all the time, and look at injury and fatality rates," Mayhew says. "In the past, we've found that slightly moving a chase fence can make all the difference in the world. "There was one at Market Rasen that always caused a lot of problems, coming into the home straight.

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