Racing is losing precious time as the Jockey Club's search for a leader suffers major blow
Industry editor Bill Barber's weekly take on the key stories from the worlds of racing and betting
At last some of the pieces in British racing's leadership jigsaw have fallen into place, although the picture might not look quite as it was originally envisaged.
This time last week the BHA and Jockey Club had yet to announce their next chair and chief executive respectively. By Thursday those positions had been filled, although in the Jockey Club's case it was just on an interim basis.
The Jockey Club's announcement that its former chief commercial officer Charlie Boss was returning to the organisation to take over when chief executive Nevin Truesdale leaves at the end of the year did not go into detail as to why this was the case.
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