Horsemen's Group chairman Charlie Parker calls for members to get 'fair share'

New Horsemen's Group chairman Charlie Parker has called on racecourses to provide the sport's participants with a fair and equitable share of the sport's income.

He was joined in that call by his predecessor Philip Freedman, who accused some racecourses of regarding prize-money as "no more than a residual expense to be paid at their discretion".

Relations between the Horsemen's Group and the Racecourse Association (RCA) have been strained since it was revealed last month that Freedman had written to RCA chief executive David Armstrong to say they had taken legal advice over the RCA's "unilateral decision" to cease racecourse executive contributions to prize-money while the sport continued with an emergency fixture list due to the Covid-19 crisis.