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Audience led them from pillar to post in the 2024 renewal of Newbury's Group 1, which saw him beat some classy horses - including Charyn in second. Lady's Grace is also closely related to Esquire, who won the Greenham in the famous red and white silks. If she possesses similar ability to her siblings, she could be a very good animal.

Jahami - owned by Cheveley Park and trained by Roger Varian - debuted at Newcastle last month and will look to build on a respectable third of ten. She steps up in trip today to seven furlongs. Ray Dawson replaces Sean Dylan Bowen in the plate.

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Thespian Queen tried her luck in a Class 2 at Goodwood but was well beaten and drops down in grade today. A daughter of York Stakes winner Time Test, she could go close with Callum Hutchinson booked. Miss Clarice - who is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Mrs Danvers - could go well on debut for Jonathan Portman.

3.23 Brighton - Previous winners Bug Boy and Stintino Sunset clash

Bug Boy and Stintino Sunset were winners last time out and clash this afternoon in the Bet £20 Get £40 In Free Bets At matchbook.com Handicap.

Tony Newcombe's Bug Boy won here at the beginning of last month over course and distance and returns to the track facing a 1lb rise in the weights. Taryn Langley takes off 5lb as this 10-year-old looks for back-to-back victories.

Stintino Sunset bought up her fourth career victory at Bath last time out over the extended 11 furlongs. This six-year-old, trained by Julie and Shelley Birkett, is up to 53 today (from 49) and hasn't been rated this highly since August last year.

Seamus Mullins' Basilette steps down to a mile and a half having been denied by a head at Bath the last day. This seven-year-old mare will likely return to hurdling after this assignment but should be approaching peak fitness for this test.

8.00 Southwell - Nochebuena takes on facile Lingfield scorer Affettuoso

The Ralph Beckett-trained Nochebuena takes on impressive winner Affettuoso in the bettingsites.co.uk Your Betting Guide Handicap.

Top-rated Nochebuena comes here off the back of finishing a very distant ninth at Doncaster last time out. The start before she was behind Hoseki, who boosted the form at Newmarket on Saturday.

Affettuoso chased home some nice animals before he was gelded prior to his last start. Roger Varian's charge was sent off at 1-9 last time and justified market support, bolting up by just under eight lengths.

Cliff Danger tasted victory on his penultimate start and offers the better winning form from the remainder of the runners.

Best of the rest

Our day begins with Listed action from Auteuil, with the consistent Ovalie appearing well placed to trouble the judge for the Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm combination in the Prix Guillaume de Pracomtal.

Back at Southwell, Zafaan looks to defy a 5lb penalty in the opening bettingsites.co.uk Price Boosts Amateur Jockeys' Handicap (4.55pm) before Encore seeks victory on handicap debut at 6pm in the bettingsites.co.uk Bet Smarter Fillies' Handicap.

Also at the Nottinghamshire track, Meeting Point makes a first start for the Godolphin team in the 6.30pm bettingsites.co.uk Top UK Bookmakers EBF Maiden Stakes. The son of Space Blues takes on interesting Arm Racing newcomer Sayaarr in what could prove to be very informative contest. %!s()

Picked among 50 submissions from Eurimages member states, the 10 selected series will vie for the coveted €50,000 ($56,000) Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award.

“Never before have we welcomed that many big names and companies,” said Petri Kemppinen, co-head of TV Beats, alongside Roosa Toivonen.

This year’s crop hails from Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, and co-production partner Canada. As underscored by Toivonen, the geographical spread mirrors TV Beats’ core which is “to act as a bridge between the Baltics, Central Eastern Europe, and the Nordics. Three territories – Czechia, Finland, and Estonia – topped the list of applications.

“Estonia is very dynamic in TV drama, and we did receive more applications than from Lithuania and Latvia,” said Toivonen who mentioned the catchy story of “Stormbird,” about a young female fugitive, under Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1949. Also from Estonia is the fast-paced YA drama “Breaking the Ice,” produced by Jevgeni Supin, who was distinguished last year with an Honorary TV Beats Producer Award.

TV Beats co-heads also pointed at the larger number of projects in early development compared to previous years, set to make their very first pitch in Tallinn. “Obviously the hefty €50,000 development award from the Council of Europe is a major draw in today’s touch times for indie producers who struggle to gather development money when commissioners and public funders are cutting back. They need co-production partners to lift their projects,” Kemppinen said.

Theme-wise, in an age of distrust and as the Baltics and CEE feel the heat from Russian threats, espionage is the beating heart of three shows (“Tanner,” “Fortel,” “The Woman Who Roared”), while oppressive regimes, systems or leaders -even disguised as devils-feature in the remaining slate, next to the ever-popular crime bets.

Next to the TV Beats Co-Financing Market slate, more than 20 other top-tier series looking for additional financing, distribution and sales, will bow at ‘TV Beats Screenings’ and ‘TV Beats Coming Soon’, to be unveiled at a later date.

The TV Beats Forum is part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s industry platform Industry Tallinn & Baltic Event, running over Nov 9-20.

Full rundown of TV Beats Co-Financing Market lineup:

“Breaking the Ice” (“Päike mis sulatab jääd,” 6X45’, Estonia)
Young adult drama from Estonian powerhouse Zolba Productions (“Von Fock”, “My Dear Mother,” “A Girl From Tallinn”), co-penned and co-created by the seasoned Leana Jalukse (“Mother”, “Von Fock”) and German screenwriting expert Joachim Friedmann.

Beneath the polished surface of Estonia’s elite ice rinks, a Russian hockey prodigy ruled by his violent father and an Estonian figure skater groomed by a manipulative coach fall in love across a national divide. “Breaking the Ice” is not another fast-paced feel-good love story on skates,” says producer Jevgeni Supin. “Our series looks beneath the polished surface of youth sport, where abuse by parents and coaches is often disguised as pursuit for excellence. At its heart, it’s is a story about two young people who find the courage, through love, to break this cycle.”

“Fortel” (8X45’, Poland)

Legendary Polish film mogul and director Dariusz Jabłoński (“The Pleasure Principle,” “The Cop-A New Chapter”), serves as creator and showrunner of this spy thriller penned by US screenwriter Marc Grey, episodic writer of Apple TV’s International Emmy-winning show “Tehran.”

Jabłoński’s own pedigreed banner Apple Film Production is producing for commercial giant Polsat.
The core of the action is the little-known Polish town of Rzeszów close to the Ukraine border which has turned into a spy nest and arms dealing platform. The story tracks a CIA officer who sets a trap for Russian saboteurs, targeting confidential Western arms shipments while secretly searching for his missing brother, who may hold the key to the leak, says the logline.

“Fortel” is about the history we’re living through right now, in real time, two hours from my home,” Jabłoński tells Variety. “Rzeszów is a city that woke up one morning to find itself at the center of the war, with no instruction manual and no way out. I want to make a thriller that feels the way the war feels – chaotic, morally unresolved and shot through with unexpected moments of humanity, with a cast drawn from several of the countries involved. A Polish-based story that the whole world needs to see right now,” he claims.

“Happy New Year!” (“Laimingų Naujų!” 10X21’, Lithuania)

Created and helmed by rising talent Montis Norvaisis for his outfit Big Drama, setup with producer Lineta Lasiauskaitė. The drama turns on a young woman, victim of spike drinking at a lavish New Year’s Eve party in a remote manor. When the guests refuse to confront the crime, her best friend seeks justice herself. Norvaisis will draw from his own experience to portray a raw and authentic portrait of New Year’s Eve youth parties.

“Kalmann” (6X45’, Iceland, Finland, Estonia)
TV adaptation of Icelandic-Swiss crime author Joachim B. Schmidt’s “Kalmann” book series, penned by María Heba Þorkelsdóttir and Kristófer Dignus who directs.

Produced by Kontent’s Guðný Guðjónsdóttir and Sara Djeddou Baldursdóttir, who have attached Iceland’s main streamer Síminn and co-pro partners Snapper Films from Finland and Cuba Films from Estonia. Headlining the show is the eccentric sheriff Kalmann, who uses unique instincts to solve murders.

“’Kalmann’ sits within the internationally established Nordic crime space, but brings warmth, humor, melancholy and humanity to the genre alongside a compelling murder investigation,” says Baldursdóttir, who plans to use TV Beats to test the show’s concept, tone and international potential. Production is set to start in the fall 2027.

“Intimacy on Prescription” (“Intimita na předpis, 8X60’, Czechia)
“Can good sex save every marriage,” says the logline about the tragicomedy set in 1970s Czechoslovakia, and inspired by the real story of Stanislav Kratochvíl, a pioneer of couples sex therapy. The show, helmed by established theater and film director Jiří Havelka (“Owners”), is set in a psychiatric clinic, where couples are invited to say out loud what society, marriage and shame have taught them to hide.

“For us, ‘Intimacy’ is not only about sex, but about the courage to speak honestly about desire, fear, shame, power and the need to be seen by the person closest to you,” says producer Karolina Zalabáková, who looks forward to pitching in Tallinn this story “strongly rooted in Czech and Czechoslovak history” with “emotional themes that are universal and highly exportable.” The screenplay from head-writer Kristina Májová, co-written with Matěj Randár and Jan Smutný, is based on an original idea by Kateřina Kořínková.

“Stormbird” (“Tormilind,” 5X42’, Estonia)

Historical thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Kadri Kõusaar, credited for the Cannes Un Certain Regard’s “Magnus” and Estonia’s Oscar pick “Mother.” Set in 1949, under Soviet occupied Estonia. After killing soldiers who attack her family, Lee (18), known as ‘Stormbird’, becomes a fugitive and joins the Forest Brothers band led by “Geronimo” to rescue her imprisoned brother, Uku. Hunted by the Red Army, she fights to survive, while her childhood friend Reinhardt becomes her enemy. producer Aet Laigu says “Stormbird” “is first and foremost a story about people trying to survive and forced to make impossible choices under occupation.” It’s also a unique take of a “rarely seen part of European history”, depicted through a young woman’s eyes, turning on topical themes such as freedom, resistance and identity.

“Tanner” (6X50’, Ireland, Canada)
Produced by Fíbín Films’ Bernie Hoban and Darach Ó Tuairisg, co-produced by Fraser Ash and Kevin Krikst for Canadian power-player Rhombus Media, attached to HBO’s Emmy nominated “The Sympathizer.”

The story created and penned by Keith Hodder, with Damian McCann and Sarah Gordon turns on a former Irish intelligence officer who returns home to investigate a missing teenager and uncovers a tech-powered conspiracy reaching from elite schools to the highest levels of government. Hoban says “Tanner” stands out thanks to its unique world “rarely seen before, the Irish intelligence services operating in a country whose prosperity is increasingly intertwined with some of the world’s most powerful multinational corporations, creating fascinating tensions between democracy, sovereignty and corporate influence.”” Through a uniquely Irish lens, “Tanner” tackles themes that resonate across the world while anchoring them in the journey of an unforgettable protagonist – a deeply flawed investigator whose greatest gift may also be his undoing,” she adds.

“The Inheritance” (“De Erfenis,” 6X45’, Belgium)
From fast-expanding powerhouse Panenka behind the New8 hit show “This is Not a Murder Mystery” and Series Mania 2025 Special Mention winner “Putain.” Commissioned by leading Flemish broadcaster VTM.
Created and penned by Alexandra Jans with Jan Van Dyck for producers Kato Maes, Kristoffel Mertens and Karlijn Van de Cruys. Psychological thriller set against the world of animal welfare and hunting. When Hanne, a staff member of a struggling animal rescue, unexpectedly becomes executor of a wealthy hunting family’s estate, a bitter battle over the inheritance erupts. Van de Cruys says the show will draw from its breathtaking location-Belgium’s largest national park of Limburg’s Hoge Kempen, and the personal take from Jans who has crafted the story out of her own personal experience.

“The Woman Who Roared” (4X45’, Finland)

From box-office hit habitué, actor and filmmaker Pamela Tola (“Ladies of Steel,” “Bad Apples”). Dramedy co-penned by Anastasia Pashkevich and Kristofer Seppälä, in which the recently widowed Leena (65) discovers that the Helsinki Zoo is actually an arena where international spies gather. She believes the place is linked to a top-secret nuclear weapon her late husband had hidden.

“The Woman Who Roared” offers a fresh take on the spy genre – thrilling, funny, and full of heart,” says producer Mete Sasioglu of Sons of Lumière, who will be looking for co-producers, especially from France, Eastern Europe and the Nordics in Tallinn.

“When Devils Rule” (“Los demones mandan,” 6X35’, Spain)
Darkly humorous political thriller with supernatural elements from the team behind Movistar Plus’ anticipated “Patagonia.” Atlantika Films’ Nano Arrieta-creator and producer with Claudia Ruíz — shares the writing room with Popy Blasco, Ibai Ariztegi and Bárbara Zemelman. In a world fractured by power, fear and political extremism, a group of women uncovers a demonic force operating at the highest level of society-and realizes the chaos around them may be part of a much darker design. %!s()

Since then the PFL has phased out the Bellator brand, before merging with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions, but it's still unclear what its future looks like.

The UFC meanwhile, is in the first year of a seven-year broadcast deal with Paramount, and has faced criticism about fighter pay and matchmaking in the past 12 months.

Coker, 63, sees it as the perfect time to re-enter the MMA landscape.

"My body of work speaks for itself, I've done a lot in this sport and this space and I started coming to the conclusion that martial arts was in a bit of a funk," Coker told BBC Sport.

"The UFC had started their Paramount deal, PFL was shaking a bit, so I thought there needed to be something to shake up the sport again."

Ki MMA will feature a 32-fighter featherweight tournament, with events in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.

It also plans on featuring super fights from already established names within MMA, with Coker looking to sign free agents "in around two to three months".

The project is backed by $60m (£44.7m) in funding, with Coker promising that "fighters will come first and we'll treat them with respect".

Coker is regarded as a pioneer in MMA after being instrumental in the rise of former promotion Strikeforce.

Coker points to former UFC stars such as Daniel Cormier and Ronda Rousey as examples of fighters where he helped build their brand from scratch.

Cormier debuted in Strikeforce before winning UFC titles at light-heavyweight and heavyweight in a distinguished career.

Rousey, meanwhile, had fought two professional bouts prior to being signed by Coker, before going on to become one of the biggest MMA stars of all time.

Coker says his Ki MMA team have been searching gyms in cities such as Tokyo and Paris looking for "diamonds in the rough".

"I don't think anyone has built stars from scratch like we have in the past," said Coker.

"We will be in the star building business and the star searching business and that's what we're doing, searching for diamonds in the rough. We're gonna go mining.

"This is going to be a long distance race and take several years to build this group of fighters but the tournament speeds up the process."

Coker, who was born in South Korea, describes Ki as an East Asian word which means the "inner energy and spiritual journey of martial arts".

Coker has described Japan as the "birthplace of MMA" and wants his new promotion to reflect that.

A key change he wants to make is hosting Ki MMA fights in a ring as opposed to a cage, which was a key characteristic of former Japanese promotion Pride.

MMA fights are held in cages primarily to stop athletes falling out and to keep the action flowing, but Coker says it makes fights hard to see.

"I'm sitting right at the cage, and once they go to the side, I end up watching the whole fight on the big screen," Coker said.

"With the ring you have better viewing and more action because a fighter can't hold you against the cage and control you."

Coker says some details still need to be finalised but he's aiming to hold Ki MMA's first event early in 2027. %!s()

Reflection AI on Monday unveiled Beam, an "open-weight" model designed for coding, reasoning, and AI-agent tasks. The company says it rivals some of China's leading open models while using far less computing power.

Here's what to know.

What is Beam?

Beam is Reflection AI's first frontier open-weight model. Open-weight means developers can download the model's parameters, run them on their own hardware, and modify or fine-tune them for specific use cases.

That is an alternative to using models from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which are generally accessed via their own Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Reflection says Beam, a text-only model, has 501 billion total parameters, but activates only 23 billion at a time — a design intended to make it cheaper and faster to operate. The model can handle coding, multi-step reasoning, and other agentic work.

For now, Beam is in final safety testing and available through a waitlist. Reflection says it will release the model's weights, a technical report, and developer tools later this month.

Who is behind Beam?

Reflection was founded in 2024 by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, both former DeepMind researchers.

"The only way to own intelligence is, by definition, if it's open — because if it's open, you can run it on your stuff, you can own it, you can control it, you can customize it," Laskin, the CEO, said in a podcast released on Monday.

The startup has raised billions of dollars and is backed by investors including Nvidia, Sequoia, and Citigroup. In June, it confirmed a funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation.

How does Beam compare?

Reflection said Beam is competitive with Z.ai's GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic tasks, and is approaching Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max. It said that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 remains ahead on raw capability.

The startup is pitching itself on efficiency. It said Beam can achieve results comparable to GLM-5.2 on advanced reasoning benchmarks while using three to four times less inference compute — the processing required for a model to answer a prompt.

How are tech and business leaders reacting?

Beam's launch is being welcomed as a potentially important US response to China's open-model lead. It arrives in a crowded field that includes open models from Meta, Mistral, Nvidia, and Thinking Machines Lab.

Beam also faces obvious competition from powerful models released in China by companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, Z.ai, and Moonshot AI.

The Wall Street Journal reported in March that some investors had described Reflection as the "DeepSeek of the West." That comparison to DeepSeek has become the shorthand used in many X posts surrounding Beam's buzzy launch.

On Monday, Nvidia AI's official X account congratulated the company on the launch. Investors, including Deedy Das and
Shaun Maguire, also expressed their enthusiasm for the launch on X.

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Tuesday, 6 October, 19:45 BST

On the day he left Celtic after "18 years of ups and downs", Stephen Welsh posted a classy video on social media thanking the club for everything they'd done for him.

The footage featured a clip of him as a child in a Celtic jersey, playing indoor football with his mates with the number 18 and the name 'Lennon' on the back.

He smiles at the camera, held by his mum, and says he scored a goal. Welsh looks like the most contented kid on the planet. He's all grown up now at 26, hard-bitten by the reality of professional sport, but meet him at Lesser Hampden on Monday afternoon and that same smile is there. Maybe not the same boyish innocence but certainly the same love for what he's doing in the game.

From bit-part player at Celtic to a turning point season at Motherwell under his greatest influence Jens Berthel Askou to top of the Championship with Swansea, to three caps for his country. Impressive ones, too. Composed in his defending, accurate in his distribution, convincing in his partnership with fellow newcomer Luis Binks. Much has changed in his life.

Playing for Scotland is one thing but winning is quite another. How did it feel on Saturday night in Skopje when the last whistle sounded and his first win was put on the board?

"A bit of relief," he says. "We felt there could have been a lot more goals. Five or six and you probably couldn't have argued. To get your first win under your belt is a good feeling. Hopefully it pushes us on now."

The final act of this international window comes on Tuesday when Slovenia arrive at Hampden (19:45 BST), a chance to make up for last week's nightmarish experience against the Swiss, a game reduced to a non-event after Jack Hendry's early red card. Scotland battled away, but lost 3-0.

A "sore one", he says. "We had to suffer for a good 80-90 minutes," he explains. "That can take its toll mentally but we showed how strong we are going into North Macedonia.

"It will mean a lot for the squad, for the manager to come back home and put on a good performance and finish the camp with a win. You need to keep building on that. That's the standard that we want to set."

Welsh's story starts at Celtic, a product of their academy who turned down overtures from Udinese and Toulouse in his time. He wanted to stay and fight for his place but it was all stop-start.

After making his debut in the spring of 2020, Celtic kept signing centre-halves - Carl Starfelt and Liam Scales, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Yuki Kobayashi, Moritz Jenz and Maik Nawrocki, Gustaf Lagerbielke and Auston Trusty.

He played 70 games in total. It wasn't enough. "It's not easy but at a club like Celtic, they always want to improve, bring in more players because that keeps the competition," Welsh says. "It's football. You're not guaranteed to play even though you want to.

"For your boyhood club, to play every game, would have been the best-case scenario. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. I'm a big boy, I can accept that players are going to play in front of you. That's fair enough."

Challenging years, though. A time for mental fortitude.

"That's probably the thing that people don't see," he remarks. "What you need then is a good support group around you, good family, good friends. My agent was excellent for me. They just need to be there. That's the main thing, just be there.

"Psychologically, it can affect players but I don't think it affected me too much. I never took anything personally. That's just the way it goes. The best players, technically, probably don't [always] get to the top. It's the players that are mentally strong.

"Look at John [McGinn] and Robbo [Andy Robertson]. The mentality that they have. They're obviously fantastic footballers but it's the mental strength as well. To churn out performances every week, to turn up in good shape, to be ready to play tactically, technically, physically and mentally. That's the biggest challenge."

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In an effort to get game time, Welsh signed a loan with Mechelen in Belgium before making the move of his life to Motherwell. He says he had one conversation with Berthel Askou and he was hooked.

"Going from Celtic to Motherwell doesn't look the most brilliant move in the world, but…" it made him. "How he coached me on and off the pitch, it was top level," Welsh recalls. "I didn't realise how good a decision it was to join Motherwell until close to the end of the season, when you start getting the recognition. I would say that's all down to how he coached me."

Players speak about Berthel Askou with something approaching awe and Welsh is no different. "He just gave me pure belief," he says. "He made the game so simple for the team and that helped me as well.

"Every single day, so detailed, how he analysed teams, how he analysed specific ways of playing against teams. The biggest influence on my career by a distance. He completely changed how my career path turned out."

The move to Swansea - his Motherwell pal EIijah Just is alongside him - was another good decision. A manager, Vitor Matos, who appreciates him. A dressing room that's talented and driven. Top of the league after eight games. So far, so good.

Like Berthel Askou and Matos, new Scotland head coach Sebastien Pocognoli trusts him, too. Welsh always had it in the back of his mind that if he kept going with Motherwell and then Swansea that something might happen with his country.

It has - and he's seized the moment. Three caps should become four on Tuesday. If one win becomes two then we might be reminded of his smiling younger self again.

It takes talent, resilience and good fortune in finding managers who believe in you, but dreams can come true. Welsh is living proof of it.

Watch Stephen Welsh's full interview with Tom English on the BBC Scottish Football YouTube channel HERE, external.

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