BUDGET FORECAST: Impact on the Racing Industry "One might even call it a win. Until, that is, one considers the scorpion crossing the river on the turtle's back, and recalls that nature" @PJAOfficial @BHAHorseracing @RacingPost @DCMS @BBCSport @FT https://t.co/DjsH5h41Lt

Bravo, Ed, an absolutely superb, must read piece. Alas, those who should be reading & producing the Racing Renewal Plan are away celebrating a budget "victory" without even acknowledging the crisis. And now it accelerates. We await news from the Allen and Dunshea Holborn bunkers.

Britain, long a global centre of excellence for breeding and racing, risks losing international relevance. @RacehorseOwners @RacingPost @steve_hawkes https://t.co/GzfbsDS2KC

The crisis assessment makes for sobering reading, primarily because it is not a prediction of what might happen but a description of what is already underway. @FinalFurlongPod @LuckOnSunday @itvracing @PJAOfficial .@ThomasSavill @proform_racing https://t.co/GzfbsDRuV4

This petition. 😂

How close is this to whats about to happen without revolution and a complete restructuring of the sport? @PJAOfficial @ThomasSavill @nickluck @TheJockeyClub @BHAHorseracing @RacehorseOwners #horseracing

A family of five where no one has worked in three generations is held up as a symbol of structural injustice. @labourlewis @LabourList @RachelReevesMP @KemiBadenoch https://t.co/TUeWeVcR37

693,000 people left the UK in the year to June. That is the highest number in a century.

We have no casino, so that tax increase doesn't affect us, but the 66% increase in betting duty on Gross Profits on sports bets from April 26 makes that avenue too expensive for us now (we only just started taking football bets due to the loss of TRP tracks because of their 2%

Labour’s brilliant idea to solve our immigration problem: drive everyone out of the country! #genius

What Britain needs is not a bigger benefits budget or a new round of breakfast clubs. It needs a cultural reckoning. https://t.co/TUeWeVcjdz @reformparty_uk @SMFthinktank @UKLabour #Budget2025 #Benefits

RESPONSE TO THE BUDGET @jranoyes

https://t.co/r2lY692pJV And when bookmakers cut back — and they will — the fallout lands straight on the sport. The BHA must stop celebrating victories it hasn’t actually won. @BHAHorseracing @BetGameCouncil @geoffbanksbet @AKBets @chrisgambler247 @SenseiChanning

@CrewkerneGaz

Huge losers 1. Horse racing 2. Greyhound racing 3. Regular punters in terms of return to player 4. Betting and gaming Council Winners 1. Anti gambling organisations 2. Black market

The Budget Impact for UK Racing - Objectively @itvracing @BetGameCouncil @proform_racing @RacehorseOwners @BHAHorseracing @AKBets

Bookmakers just got hammered – and they will come for racing later Here’s the catch. That extra £1.1bn doesn’t fall out of the sky; it comes out of operator margins. Remote gaming going to 40% is brutal by any commercial standard

Here is the details @geoffbanksbet @BetGameCouncil @RacingPost

Here its is @itvracing @RacingPost

LEAKED LEAKED @RacingPost reforms to the taxation of gambling, which raises £1.1 billion; #HorseRacing

But racing has burned goodwill it didn't know it possessed, with creditors it couldn't afford to antagonise. The invoice arrives later, denominated in basis points on media rights renewals and mysteriously reduced sponsorship budgets. By 2028, the BHA may discover that winning