- Flag starts instead of stalls raised for return of racing
- Physical distancing impossible to practise for stalls staff
Some races should be started without stalls as a means of reducing risk when the sport returns to action, two stalls handlers have told the Guardian. The men, who did not wish to be named, said they could not imagine how the established rules of physical distancing could be maintained during their skilled and dangerous work of guiding racehorses into the starting stalls and neither man has been given any information about what safety precautions will be put in place, even though there is talk of the sport resuming within the next 10 days.
“Some of these horses need four people to shove them in and where’s the social distancing there?” one said. “It’s just not possible.”
Written by Chris Cook
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