Morales took the verdict, but many observers thought Barrera was unlucky to lose. Since then Barrera has successfully retained his WBO super-bantamweight crown three times.The 26-year-old Hamed, who is unbeaten in 35 fights, first boxed in the United States in December 1997, when he stopped Kevin Kelley in the fourth round at New York's Madison Square Garden in a dramatic bout of six knock-downs. He then out-scored Belfast's Wayne McCullough in Atlantic City 10 months later and out-pointed Cesar Soto in Detroit in October 1999. Last August he stopped Augie Sanchez in the fourth round in Connecticut.The Hamed-Barrera bout will be shown live on BSkyB, with a supporting bill in Las Vegas and an undercard in Britain. It will also be Hamed's pay-per-view debut in the United States, with the fight being beamed across the country by the cable network HBO.The Sheffield fighter will set up his training camp in Palm Springs, California, under the supervision of Emanuel Steward. Hamed's brother Nabell, his training camp manager, explained the warm weather and availability of good sparring partners was the reason for picking that particular location.It is not yet clear whether the Hamed-Barrera fight will be over 10 or 12 rounds - or whether a title will be on the line. But it is possible the International Boxing Organisation belt will be put at stake to give the bout championship status.

Indeed, Raith Hamed, who manages his brother's business affairs, admitted a title would "add an element of credibility".Hamed has been installed as 2-9 favourite by William Hill to beat Barrera, who is quoted at 3-1, with 50-1 the draw.. The government is giving serious consideration to the possible abolition of betting tax, a Treasury minister confirmed yesterday. Stephen Timms, the financial secretary to the Treasury, told the annual seminar of the British Betting Offices Association that changes to the current system of tax paid on bets could "build the foundations for [the] long-term success" of the bookmaking industry. The government is giving serious consideration to the possible abolition of betting tax, a Treasury minister confirmed yesterday. Stephen Timms, the financial secretary to the Treasury, told the annual seminar of the British Betting Offices Association that changes to the current system of tax paid on bets could "build the foundations for [the] long-term success" of the bookmaking industry.

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The precise nature of any reforms to the taxation of betting will not become clear until the Budget in March. Timms, however, said that the Government "wants to introduce reforms that will play to the real strength of the betting industry in the UK, its integrity, its skills, its experience and the quality of the sporting event it is based on."The removal of betting tax paid by punters, in favour of a tax on bookmakers' gross profits, would attract back to Britain business which has recently been drifting to low-deduction bookies overseas.

"We want to make sure that by making the UK industry more competitive, we bring betting back onshore and welcome a new international market to this country," Timms said.. They call Guillaume Macaire the Martin Pipe of French racing and that is not because he plays table tennis with his assistant or answers the door to large investigative reporters with microphones in hand. It is rather because he trains a lot of horses and a lot of those horses tend to win. They call Guillaume Macaire the Martin Pipe of French racing and that is not because he plays table tennis with his assistant or answers the door to large investigative reporters with microphones in hand.