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Article: Commercial break; Howard Wright talks to Julian Richmond-Watson, who stepped down last week after six years as Jockey Club senior steward.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2009
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Byline: Howard Wright
THE lunatics are now running the asylum; time to bring back the Jockey Club and dissolve the BHA, wrote a contributor to the Racing Post Chatroom in the immediate aftermath of the recent Nicky Henderson case.
Not likely, to paraphrase the words of Julian Richmond-Watson, who last week stepped down as Jockey Club senior steward.
During a six-year, extended term of office, he has steered British racing's most famous institution through the biggest changes in a 250-year history of self-elected existence, where its public image has ...