British racing's power structure and how it can be improved

If politics is the art of the possible, British racing politics can look like trying to find ways around the impossible.

It took a general election to finally provide an answer to a Brexit debate in which neither side was willing to budge or compromise. There are no general elections in racing politics. If there is a failure to budge or compromise then, all too often, nothing gets done. Yet who is supposed to do the doing?

British racing is a large and complicated beast. Its power structures have changed over the years and, no doubt, will continue to evolve. The system that exists now often works, and when it does the results can be impressive. When it does not work the outcome can be deeply frustrating.