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'The status quo just isn't sustainable' - does British racing need a revolution in how it is run?

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Part one of Lee Mottershead's special report on British racing's governance can be read here. In part two, he asks senior British racing figures how they would want the sport to be run in the future


How British racing is run in the future may depend on whether those doing the job now agree with a fellow leader's depressing observation.

At the Asian Racing Conference in Japan, Hong Kong Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges delivered a doom-laden warning, claiming the key players in Britain would find it difficult to make the sport healthier and wealthier due to the limitations of the governance structure in which they operate.

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