City Racing faces key BHA meeting next week as another delay is confirmed

City Racing has been forced to abandon plans to stage the inaugural meeting in Liverpool this April and the entire future of the project could now hinge on a crucial BHA board meeting on Tuesday.

The venture, designed to bring horseracing to some of the world's most iconic locations, faces a crunch meeting in which the sport's governing body is set to approve or reject the plan to stage city centre racing in Liverpool.

That target had been laid out following further testing of the proposed racing surface in Newmarket last November, when among those watching had been officials from the BHA whose board members will on Tuesday be asked for their verdict on a concept that has divided racing fans and sparked welfare concerns.