Budget may deliver result desired from racing’s ‘Axe the Tax’ campaign

The sport may have jumped from the gaming-fuelled bandwagon just in the nick of timeAfter many months of campaigning, an unprecedented “strike” when racing relocated to London to make its voice heard and an intervention by a former prime minister, no less, the UK’s second-biggest spectator sport will soon discover whether its concerted and impressively united effort to avert a tax hike on racing bets, has paid off. With all due respect to the competitors at Wetherby, Market Ras