'A bizarre, weird ghost town' - what empty tracks have felt like for the pros

For most racing fans, 2020 has been a year of sitting on the sofa and watching the TV. Restrictions too tedious and unwelcome even to recount mean that crowds at British racecourses have been conspicuous by their absence for far too long.

For racing's professionals, however, the absence was relatively short-lived. While nothing about the year has been normal, owners, trainers, jockeys and the media have been granted varying degrees of access to the track and have had to make the best of it.

So just how has the racecourse experience been for those who work for a living in the racing industry, and how have they coped?