Arena Racing Company has reached an agreement with the UK’s National Trainers Federation to commit the necessary prize-money to unlock levy board funding for all eligible races in March
This announcement heralds the first European racecourse group to deploy a system that only needs GPS tracking boxes to time each runner
Despite challenges presented by the weather and the economy, attendance at the courses, which host 39pc of the UK’s horseracing fixtures, rose from 1.6m in 2012 to 1.9m
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
