McCreevy has given €1 billion of your money to the horsey set

‘THE next logical step was to put horse-racing’s finances on a permanent footing. If that is not done, racing will be at the whim of the Government of the day and, when the pressure comes for expenditure on things like health and education, racing will go down the political priorities list.”

Who said that? A jockey, maybe, or a horse-trainer, or a racehorse owner?

Clearly, you'd imagine, it was someone who wanted to pressurise the Minister for Finance into looking after the horse-racing industry over everyone else.