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For good or bad, 2025 cannot help but be a year of change for British racing
Industry editor Bill Barber's weekly take on the key stories from the worlds of racing and betting
Bill BarberIndustry editor
There are plenty of changes in store for British racing in 2025Credit: Alan Crowhurst (Getty Images)
The last 12 months in British racing may have been disappointingly lacking in progress but 2025 cannot help but be a year of change.
Much of that will be down to new personnel at the top of the sport, although some of the incoming cast of characters had been expected to be in place by now.
British racing does at least know the next chair of the BHA, with Labour peer Lord Allen set to succeed Joe Saumarez Smith at the start of June.
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