'Racing will miss him' - report card broadly positive as Nevin Truesdale leaves Jockey Club hotseat

There is rarely a sustained period of what constitutes calm in British racing. But even by that elevated metric, Nevin Truesdale’s four and a half years as chief executive of the Jockey Club have coincided with a run of unprecedented challenges and upheaval. 

So it is all the more remarkable that Truesdale leaves one of the most high-profile roles in the sport with so many endorsements ringing in his ears. 

In 2013 Truesdale was recruited from Centrica (the parent company of British Gas) to become group finance director and, having reportedly applied for the role of CEO when former Sky and BT Sport executive Delia Bushell was appointed in July 2019, he was the obvious 'safe pair of hands' to take interim charge when Bushell resigned in the wake of an independent inquiry that found her guilty of bullying and harassment just 13 months later.