Racing’s ruling body must show it has been vigorously enforcing the licence condition that tells trainers not to take enhanced odds
I have made many a complaint about the instinctive secrecy and galloping paranoia that so hampers the British Horseracing Authority in its work. It has to be acknowledged that, in the time of Nick Rust, there has been some progress in opening up to greater scrutiny; the types of disciplinary hearing which are open to the press have been greatly increased, for example, and, until this year, we would not have been allowed into a hearing like the David Evans one on Monday.
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