All-Party Parliamentary Group

LONDON, UK -- On the eve of Royal Ascot, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Racing and Bloodstock (APPG) has delivered a stark warning regarding the sport's future in Britain, which it fears "risks being tipped into terminal decline". At a launch in Westminster in the shadow of the British government's seat of power, MPs Dan Carden and Nick Timothy, co-chairs of the APPG, delivered a report demanding urgent action to stave off the threat from a "triple whammy of challenges that represent no less than an existential threat to the...

The British Horseracing Authority has released, with their permission, a letter from the co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Racing and Bloodstock Industries-Conor McGinn, MP for St Helens North and Laurence Roberston, MP for Tewkesbury--outlining their support of the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter reads, "These are unprecedented times that require the whole nation and government to work together to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency. In dealing with the economic crisis that accompanies it, much has rightly been made of the urgent need...