Talking Horses: bookies warn cashless trial is 'disaster waiting to happen'


Government will be asked to ditch insistence on cash-free betting when bookmakers return at Goodwood on Saturday

Bookmakers are to make a last-ditch appeal to the government to relax restrictions around their return to the racecourse at Goodwood this week. Just four bookmakers are to be allowed to bet at the Sussex track on Saturday, when around 5,000 racegoers will be allowed entry, and have been told they must take bets only via cards, not cash, which one bookmaker described as “a disaster waiting to happen”.

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