How modern leadership, online betting and a broadcast revolution changed racing

Racing looks different to how it used to be because racing is different to how it used to be. Here is part two of our focus on the modern developments that have reshaped the sport.

The quiet revolution

If ever there was a moment that illustrated the quiet revolution which took place in British racing in the final years of the last century and the start of the new, it was when the unfortunate Jeremy Phipps appeared on BBC's Panorama investigation into corruption in the sport.

Phipps had retired from the army in 1997 at the rank of Major General, having served for 37 years with the Queen's Own Hussars and then the SAS, with whom he had played a key role in the ending of the siege of the Iranian embassy in 1980.