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One week until the Budget – and one decision that could define the future of British racing. 85,000 jobs and communities across the country depend on this sport. We’re urging the Government: don’t turn your back on racing. #AxeTheRacingTax

I wouldn't blame them Stupid regulations Massive tax rises

Interesting hearing Grainne Hurst from the BGC explaining her disappointment to Nick Luck at horse racing aligning itself with anti-gambling campaigners. She is right of course. Racing needs a thriving gambling industry. Siding with the anti-gambling lobby is an absurd position.

Our CEO Grainne Hurst joined Nick Luck ahead of next week’s Budget to outline why a tax hike on betting would have consequences well beyond the industry. “If costs go up through tax increases in the Budget, there will be less money to fund racing. That's the bottom line.”

😂😂 Beth Rigby absolutely anhilated Keir Starmer for 10 mins straight while he squirmed and tried to deflect. !!! Beautiful. Well done. BR: you won’t rule out tax taxes for working people? KS.. deflect deflect BR “You haven’t ended the chaos, you ARE the chaos”

“You haven’t ended chaos. You are the chaos.” Fair play to Beth Rigby here. She absolutely dismantles Keir Starmer’s broken tax promises in this interview and doesn’t put up with any of his bullshit or waffle.

Balls of steel from Harry Skelton Dominant performance

"It was nice to see him ready enough to do that without a bother!" Nicky Henderson thinks Jango Baie put himself firmly in the King George VI Chase picture with a demonstrative performance in the Ladbrokes 1965 Chase at Ascot...

WOW 😮 If that doesn't do it for you, then you are in the wrong game 🏇

Fast. Dynamic. Striking. Equipped with a Hybrid Twin-Turbo V8, a lightweight carbon-fibre chassis, and a few extra modifications from Q-Branch behind it all, Bond will need to #EarnTheNumber to get behind the wheel of the Aston Martin Valhalla in #007FirstLight. Aston Martin

One glimer of hope for British horse racing is that oncourse betting turnover increased from £227m million in 2023-24 to £248m in 2024-25. An increase of £21m (9%).

'It's effectively an act of vandalism on the betting and gaming industry.' Our CEO Grainne Hurst gives her reaction to the Government's Budget measures on Nick Luck's Daily Podcast. 🔽

Since the Budget, two completely different versions of reality have emerged. On one hand you have a significant number of people within racing who genuinely believe they “won”: that holding racing at 15% while pushing Remote Gaming Duty to 40% and sports betting to 25% somehow

Digital ID - I made my thoughts abundantly clear in Parliament. We must resist it. Because once it's in, we are never turning back. I plan on resisting. I will not download a Digital ID. I will not comply.

'We'll have to jump up and down on this together' Nicky Henderson sounds rallying cry to save Kempton's future Read with Racing Post+ 👇

And so the next anti-gambling battalion surges forward - let's hope racing's warm relations with those who want to see the sector shrink enables another carve-out... Raising taxes was never going to be enough.

Fairness on the high street must include betting shops. Licensed betting shops are lawful, regulated leisure venues that support 42,000 jobs, contribute £1bn in tax, and are closing, not expanding. Yet they’re excluded from business rates relief given to similar venues.

The warning from BGC CEO Grainne Hurst at the ICE industry conference in Barcelona was stark. With 1.5 million UK customers already using illegal sites, the harmful black market pays absolutely no tax, offers no player protection, and represents a serious and growing danger to

BGC CEO Grainne Hurst says new gambling tax rises could backfire by pushing people away from licensed UK operators and towards harmful illegal websites, where there are no age checks, consumer protections or safer gambling tools. bettingandgamingcouncil.com/news/the-budge…