Joe Saumarez Smith will leave the BHA with a feeling of unfinished business - but nobody can doubt his efforts

Joe Saumarez Smith's time as BHA chair went on both longer than expected and finished sooner than it was hoped. As ever with such positions, he will leave with a sense of unfinished business.
Saumarez Smith's tenure as chair was due to finish at the end of May but the deterioration in his health following a diagnosis of lung cancer in 2023 meant he has had to leave the role sooner than planned, stepping down with immediate effect last week.
It means he has spent a decade as part of British racing's leadership and, while he may have only had a little more than 30 months as chair of the governing body, there has been a lot packed into those two and a half years.
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