Failure to act on recommendations would leave bloodstock industry ‘at serious risk of being exposed by investigative media’
Some participants in the buying and selling of bloodstock in
Britain are “in practice, entirely unregulated” and the whole process is in urgent need of “transformational and once-in-a-generation change”, according to a long-awaited report into sales industry practices published on Thursday.
The report, commissioned by the
British Horseracing Authority and conducted by Justin Felice OBE, a former chief superintendent of Lancashire
police, includes recommendations that all bloodstock agents should be licensed and that the BHA should take on overall responsibility for the regulation of bloodstock sales.