Racing fit for purpose - the only thing we have to fear is too much fear

Do you think, sometimes, we worry too much? I don't mean that we should be like those three little birds, not worrying about a thing, but now and again it seems we worry about racing because we're here and it's there and it's our duty to fret about its future.

That's not a bad thing. It's incumbent on every generation to put things in place for the next generation, and it would be highly irresponsible if we set about the task like a Restoration libertine and ran through the inheritance in a year or two. But it's not our duty to build an empire that lasts 200 years, nor worry about one.

This week we've been reading about the need to make racing more popular, to invigorate the customer base, to grab the attention of the young, to shore up the sandcastle against the sea of life. All of those things need to be done, by default, in the same way any business would operate. But the barbarians aren't at the gate, the pin isn't out of the grenade. It isn't the time to panic.