On a day when racing staged unprecedented strike action, former champion trainer John Gosden issued a stark warning on the potential consequences should the sport’s plea to the Government to shelve proposed gambling tax changes fall on deaf ears.
Planned meetings at Carlisle, Lingfield, Kempton and Uttoxeter were all cancelled, with many of the sport’s leading figures gathering at Westminster in London for the British Horseracing Authority-led ‘Axe The Racing Tax’ event, amid fears tax on racing bets could be raised from the current 15 per cent to the 21 per cent levied on games of chance.
