Elsworth backs Johnston's call to cut back on betting coverage

David Elsworth: 'I think we should give betting display but it's gone over the top'Credit: Edward Whitaker

David Elsworth has joined Mark Johnston in a call for a drastic reduction of betting content when ITV take over the terrestrial television coverage of racing from Channel 4 in 2017.

Johnston has been widely criticised this week after urging ITV to "get rid of all coverage of betting", but his views are finding favour with some.

Elsworth, who has spent a lifetime in racing, has never been averse to a bet himself and landed a famous coup with Raffia Set at Salisbury when he was first licenced in 1979.

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Tom KerrEditor

Published on 16 July 2016inNews

Last updated 17:46, 17 July 2016

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