Thank you stewards for not interfering just for the sake of interfering

Racing in Britain and Ireland is doing something right. That is a sentence you have not read too often of late. For the best part of two months the British Horseracing Authority and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board have been taking a bashing for their respective handlings of the Covid-19 crisis. Some of the criticism was justified, some was uncalled for and some was just downright ridiculous, nasty in fact.

Finding flaws in decision makers is easy. It is presumably why Sinn Fein did so well in the recent general election in Ireland. Mary Lou McDonald's party has been on the opposition benches for years and picking holes in Leo Varadkar's government was its only daily duty. It has always been easier to trash than thank.

Giving credit where it is due is in much shorter supply these days, so it is about time we praised our authorities for taking the sting out of the interference debacle which caused so much controversy in decades gone by. You might argue otherwise, but I believe our stewards are doing a much better job than their counterparts in places like America or Australia.