TOP horse trainers have said they will boycott ITV coverage this weekend unless they are paid for interviews. Racing is at war with a number of handlers - rumoured to include the likes of Nicky Henderson - believing they deserve a financial incentive to speak on camera.
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Trainers who are signed up with the Professional Racing Association, a number totalling 170 and including Dan Skelton, will refuse to talk unless racecourses and media rights companies pay them. The only place to get Templegate's tips first - and at the best prices - is by joining Sun Racing's brilliant Members Enclosure.
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Stuart Williams, who is with the PRA, said the aim is not to line the pockets of trainers. They want the money racecourses hold to be shared around and injected into prize money, and other initiatives, instead. But trainers such as Hugo Palmer and Kim Bailey have hit out at the plans, with the former telling Sun Racing columnist Matt Chapman it is a 'terrible idea'.
The PRA, headed by former British racing boss Peter Savill, are determined to plough on with their powder-keg plans. A statement posted on Monday read: "The PRA board met today and reiterated its call for racecourses, RMG and Sky Racing to show that they value the contribution that trainers make to the show, and also to explain why they have so far been willing to pay the jockeys but not the trainers.
