Irish Examiner view: Racing faces unavoidable challenges

Horse racing should learn from mistakes made in the greyhound industry.

Not too many of our pillar institutions enjoyed their arrival in the modern world. Today's intrusions and ever-higher expectations, often unwelcomed by stiff, dusty, shibboleths, toppled more than one stately apple cart. 

Old habits, so long unchallengeable, were scrutinised in ways that sounded organisations' death knells.