'It's imperative we get organised, otherwise we'll paralyse the sport'

Six months into her new role as BHA chief executive, Julie Harrington told the Racing Post last year she had realised the job would be difficult but even then had not envisaged just how tough it was going to be.

Harrington is now into her second year heading the governing body – and it would appear the job has got even tougher.

There are many reasons for that. The sport will continue to feel the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for years, controversy dogs the BHA's regulatory actions, as in the Bryony Frost-Robbie Dunne case and row over jockeys' weights, and the government's gambling review is a looming danger to British racing's finances.