Plans to boycott television interviews by trainers at Sandown on Saturday have been abandoned “in the best interests of the sport”, the Professional Racing Association announced on Tuesday.
The PRA, which was founded in 2024 and headed by the former British Horseracing Board chair Peter Savill, claims to have around 170 trainers among its members and had said only on Monday that they would be instructed to decline interviews with both ITV Racing and Racing TV at this weekend’s feature meeting in Britain unless Racecourse Media Group, which owns the media rights for Sandown and several more of the country’s most high-profile tracks, agreed to a demand for an annual payment of £500,000 for interviews at RMG courses.
