'Everything went wrong at Newcastle - it was so bad it's forced a total rethink'

There is a good chance that, if the name George McGrath appears in the columns of the Racing Post, some other constituent part of the industry has fallen short, not only in his eyes but on some broadly recognisable scale.

The man who represents 7,500 racing staff and has spent the last eight years trying for incremental improvements and marginal gains for the National Association of Racing Staff (Nars) membership is called on for his view when the wheels well and truly come off.

Most recently, the plight of travelling staff forced to endure shared accommodation and sewage rising up through the plughole during Newcastle's Northumberland Plate meeting highlighted how hard-won improvements across Britain have slipped back during the Covid crisis.