Robin Oakley

Does horse-racing have a future?

How many of the 14,000 horses in training when the suspension was announced will come back

Aidan Coleman, on Put The Kettle On, clears the last to win the Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices' Chase at Cheltenham Festival. A week later he rode Glencassley to victory at Weatherby, in what will be the last race for some time. 
issue 04 April 2020

Asked, after his Imperial Aura’s impressive win in the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, if he had been worried about one particular challenger in the race, Kim Bailey wryly replied: ‘Of course I was worried. I’m a racehorse trainer.’ Trainers now have a lot more to worry about.

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