Austerity at the races: trainers boycott race over paltry prize

This piece of mine appears in The Week/The First Post.


Neil Clark:  Barbour-clad brigade are not waving placards yet – but they're angry about falling prize money

THE natives are restless. I'm not talking about Spain, or Greece, where anti-austerity protestors have been taking to the streets, but about the - usually - more placid world of British jump racing.

You can read the whole piece here.