Prize money negotiations are once more the cause of bitterness in horse racing and talk of boycotts of race-meeting persists
As you’ll be aware, horse racing is once more wrestling itself in a bitter row over prize money. For an insight into how bitter, consider that Martin Cruddace, chief executive of ARC, has suggested to his staff that the horsemen are negotiating like a child. This is a paragraph taken from a message he sent out last week:
“So our position is, we would like to give the £4.5m to horsemen without paying the £2.7m that it would cost to unlock in 2019 from February onwards. In a complete irony, the Horsemen are not agreeing and saying they will only accept the £4.5m if we pay the £2.7m. I remember my daughter applying similar negotiating principles on bedtime when she was 6!”
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