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Article: Jockey Club's place in future of racing

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December 18, 2004
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The Jockey Club, for so long the dominant force in British racing, will soon lose the last of its powers - but is not planning to fade away. Bill Bridge reports.

Handing over the last vestiges of their 250-year-old authority over British racing is proving a painful parting of the ways for the Jockey Club.

Data rights disputes, court hearings at home and abroad, appeals and black holes in funding have delayed the final stages of the handing over process.

For 250 years the lords, knights and gentlemen of the Jockey Club, meeting at Newmarket, at Portman Square and latterly at Shaftesbury Avenue, have been the governing body but gradually, over recent years, they had passed strands of their ...

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