Ralph Beckett says urgent funding plan needed to save jobsReforms to Levy system mooted by owners, trainers and staffRalph Beckett, who will take over as the president of the National Trainers’ Federation on 1 January, said here on Friday that he believes 10% of the country’s 500 trainers could go out of business if racing cannot urgently agree a plan for the sport’s funding, following the news that spectators will remain barred from Britain’s tracks for at least the next six months.
Plunging temperatures and a gale-force wind added to the autumnal bleakness of the Rowley Mile on Friday afternoon, and Beckett’s view of one possible future for racing was equally stark.