Racing should make more of the equality of opportunity it provides

Sometimes I wonder, do we step back enough to appreciate just how great an industry racing is when it comes to equality of opportunity?

It struck me when I was at the unveiling of the weights for the Randox Health Grand National in Liverpool last week. I was looking at the roll of honour, and five winners since the early 1980s have been trained by women, three of which came in the last decade.

This is the one race that transcends our sport because of its profile and women are winning it as a matter of routine. There’s no other sport in the world that could say that.