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Racing’s lockdown indefinite due to COVID-19 Quote: ‘The government knows we are not just a sport. It knows we are an industry with 14,000 horses. Staff can’t look after horses if they’re furloughed’ By Andrew Atkinson Racing’s lockdown faces an indefinite period, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, having been postponed since March 18, with hopes […]

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Quote: ‘When do we go back, is it too soon, or is it not too soon, if we lose more lives at the end of it all. I don’t know. Hindsight is a great thing I think no one knows’ – AP McCoy By Andrew Atkinson Retired jockey AP McCoy believes lives have been lost […]

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Frankie Dettori’s 2019 Gold Cup win With Royal Ascot awaiting to see if the 2020 meeting can go ahead behind closed doors, in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown, ANDREW  ATKINSON looks back at Frankie Dettori’s 2019 Gold Cup win on Stradivarius. WHAT an amazing horse he is – those were the words of Italian […]

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By Andrew Atkinson With racing in parts of Australia continuing behind closed doors, Ascot awaits to see if the UK Government bodies will give the 2020 Royal Ascot meeting a ‘behind closed doors’ green light go-ahead amid COVID-19 lockdown. Royal Ascot’s scheduled five day meeting is scheduled for June 16-20 and trainers and jockeys have […]

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