Unprecedented strike action shows strength of feeling in racing
The plan, as explained in The Sunday Times, is fascinating on many counts. For its shock tactics, for it being the first significant move since Lord Allen took up his BHA chair, and for its timing on the eve of the classic Doncaster meeting at which Sir Keir Starmer last year became the first prime minister to attend the St Leger since Winston Churchill in 1953. But as important as any, it represents a unified front from racing's two biggest racecourse groups, the Jockey Club and Arena Racing, the former owning Kempton Park and Carlisle, the latter Uttoxeter and Doncaster.
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