Ep 132 - Lockdown III - Racing Continues

Nick is joined by David Yates, Newsboy from the Daily Mirror, to discuss the day's news, focussing chiefly on how the sport continues gingerly and under behind-closed-doors licence in light of the latest government national lockdown as a response to the new variant of the pandemic. Nick talks to RCA CEO David Armstrong about the potential for more testing, more stringent racecourse regulation, and the overall cost to the sport because of betting shop closures. As racing continues, and builds up to the weekend's rescheduled Coral Welsh National, Nick talks to trainer Oliver Sherwood, whose Dominateur looks to give the trainer a second 'National' in a week, while Will Duff-Gordon from Total Performance Data is this week's Weatherbys Bloodstock guest, and examines the increasing role of data in horseracing analysis.