Prize-money row may be first salvo in revisiting racing's governance structure

The unity with which British racing's stakeholders had faced the Covid-19 crisis appears to be unravelling quickly as the row over racecourse contributions to prize-money rumbles on in a very public manner.

The response to the intense financial pressure the sport is facing caused by the coronavirus pandemic has reopened divisions and resentments that have been simmering for a number of years.

The sport's participants, represented by the Horsemen's Group, have long been frustrated by what they regard as a lack of transparency over just how much income racecourses make from media rights payments from bookmakers and where that money goes, the very strong suspicion being they do not receive their fair share.