Angry jockeys slam BHA for putting on replacement race meeting on ‘day off’

The PJA said jockeys based successful the northbound had lone had 1 Sunday escaped since July aft a caller gathering was scheduled successful their portion this play aft Ffos Las was abandoned

Angry jockeys person condemned the BHA for the past infinitesimal sanctioning of a caller contention gathering connected Sunday.

The regulator announced connected Thursday that an further 7 contention all-weather fixture astatine Southwell racecourse successful Nottinghamshire.

This would regenerate the scheduled fixture owed to beryllium held astatine Ffos Las successful Wales the aforesaid time which was called disconnected due to the fact that of the bedewed weather.

The BHA’s caput of racing and betting, Tom Byrne said: "We person added a fixture astatine Southwell pursuing the abandonment of Ffos Las's gathering successful bid to guarantee that we clasp contention opportunities astatine a clip the request wrong the equine colonisation exists.

"The summation of this fixture followed the mean process and took into information the imaginable geographical dispersed of fixtures, balancing each factors successful bid to execute the champion imaginable result for the sport.”

There volition present beryllium 2 Flat meetings connected Sunday with Epsom successful Surrey staging the day's different fixture.

The determination to adhd Southwell to the docket did not spell down good with jockeys who had been looking guardant to their archetypal Sunday disconnected successful a while.

The Professional Jockeys’ Association main enforcement Paul Struthers enactment retired a connection reflecting the temper of members.

“Northern-based Flat jockeys person had conscionable 1 Sunday with nary racing successful oregon adjacent the North since July, and this coming Sunday was a uncommon time wherever the immense bulk could person a time disconnected with their families.

“We person received countless calls from jockeys and their families who are understandably upset and aggravated that the BHA keeps doing this contempt the PJA repeatedly raising jockeys’ concerns.

“The BHA cannot support ignoring them.”