'Nobody gives a damn about us' - what is the future for on-course bookmakers?

The lives of Paul and Lynn Garritty have changed beyond all recognition since the doors of Britain's racecourses were locked in March.

From Hexham and Cartmel, to Sedgefield and Catterick, the husband-and-wife team are a fixture on the northern jumps circuit, representing one of the few on-course bookmaking firms that make the majority of their living away from the summer months in favour of the leaden skies and finger-numbing cold of the jumps season.

They should have been readying themselves for a profitable weekend on Haydock's Betfair Chase raceday last week, but instead they were running books at hound trailing events across the Lake District to keep their operation afloat.