Article by Jon Lees: After 20 years as chief executive of Horse Racing Ireland, Brian Kavanagh (pictured below) has returned to the place where he first made his name to become CEO of Ireland’s flagship racecourse, the Curragh.
Drugging horses to go faster, nobbling horses to go slower, neglecting horses, disrespecting dead horses, inhumane slaughter of healthy horses, jockeys bullyiing jockeys, jockeys suing jockeys, owners suing trainers. Racing has spent 2021 lurching from one PR disaster to the next, yet as the year draws to a close Rachael Blackmore’s achievements have managed to paper over all the cracks and give the impression that it wasn’t such a bad year for the sport after all.
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