Racing needs to stop shooting itself in foot

A sport has to unite to showcase itself, and there remains plenty of scope for improvement in that department in horse racing. For reasons that baffle me, the industry continues to run meetings on top of each other, with races clashing on a regular basis resulting in viewers, punters and the industry itself losing out.

I was in Punchestown on Wednesday, when there were four meetings on, and the races were being run on top of each other. All I could think was that this was no good for anybody.