No fair crack of the whip for bloodstock industry

Whether people are thinking about it or not, nobody in racing seems to be talking about Brexit anymore. The immediacy and brutal impact of Covid-19 have superseded Brexit as the greatest threat to the current well-being of racing.

That the industry was not to the forefront of those sport and leisure pursuits in the national plan to begin the journey back to normality left a feeling of shock among racing folk. Whatever the case may be or the specific reason behind the omission, it was symptomatic of a greater feeling that Leo Varadkar’s address to the nation on Friday evening last left more questions than answers.