Brian O’Connor: Stale HRI policy doesn’t inspire confidence it can navigate uncertain future

According to some business types, strategy can sometimes boil down to choosing what not to do. Trying to secure racing’s long-term future is exercising lots of official minds around the racing world, although, it seems, with different degrees of urgency.

At a recent International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) meeting in Paris, the splendidly named Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chief executive of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and IFHA chair, was in no mood for sugar coating.