Talking Horses: new BHA chair warns racing must make no-deal Brexit work


The new chair of the British Horseracing Authority says the sport will be ‘using all our connections and skills to get something that will work’ if faced with a no-deal Brexit

Annamarie Phelps, the new chair of the British Horseracing Authority, said on Tuesday that the authority will be “using all our connections and skills to get something that will work” if the UK is faced with a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.

Phelps, who represented Great Britain at rowing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, is a former vice-chair of the British Olympic Association. She spent five years as the chair of British Rowing before taking over at the BHA on 1 June and Brexit is just one of the ssues that Phelps must confront as she begins to her tenure as racing’s most senior administrator.

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