Stable staff shortages: modern working practices are the solution

I write in response to Richard Hughes’s column in the Racing Post on Saturday.

While I agree with Richard when he states racing is facing a staffing problem that is now critical, I do not believe it is the responsibility of the BHA to lobby the government to solve the problem.

Racing has issues over recruiting and retaining staff, but it is not owing to the government or the BHA, it is because the majority of trainers do not understand what today’s workforce expects nor recognise how uncompetitive they are in the broader context of what any pros­pective employee expects from their job.