Uncertainty For British Racing As The Jockey Club Announces Quitting Of RCA

The Jockey Club has announced it is quitting the Racecourse Association (RCA) and will join Ascot in giving up its membership of the racecourse trade body. The decision follows the completion of the RCA's governance review, which began in March this year.  Jim Mullen, The Jockey Club's Group Chief Executive, said, "While acknowledging the work that has taken place since March, we have consistently set out throughout the review that it needed to address not just the racecourse voting shares within the RCA, but the organisation's role in representing racecourses...