THE Professional Darts Corporation will take a unique approach to promoting their Unibet Masters darts event in Scotland - by sponsoring a horse race at Musselburgh this Sunday.

THE next PDC ProTour weekend sees players cross the Irish Sea for a Players Championship double-header on October 4-5 at the Citywest Hotel.

THE PDC are delighted to announce a three-year partnership with Singha Beer as the new title sponsors of the SINGHA Beer Grand Slam of Darts, which will take place from November 8-16 at the Wolves Civic.

DARYL GURNEY and Radek Szaganski will contest the final of the Tom Kirby Memorial Irish Matchplay championship on Sunday October 12 at Dublin's Citywest Hotel.

THE schedule of play for the partypoker.com World Grand Prix has been confirmed, with reigning champion Phil Taylor in action on

ENTRIES are still available for the PDC Unicorn Youth Tour and Challenge Tour events on September 27-28 and the two Players Championship events in Dublin in October.

PHIL TAYLOR will begin his bid to win a 12th partypoker.com World Grand Prix title against Steve Beaton in next month's tournament in Dublin, while World Champion Michael van Gerwen takes on Vincent van der Voort.

PICTURES from the European Darts Trophy at the Kohlrabizirkus in Leipzig.

MICHAEL SMITH claimed his first European Tour title with a thrilling 6-5 win over Michael van Gerwen in the final of the European Darts Trophy in Leipzig.