Racehorse trainers scrap plans to boycott TV interviews in humiliating climbdown - while Harry Redknapp suffers Cheltenham blow The Professional Racing Association (PRA) have taken a humiliating climbdown and called off their threat for trainers to boycott TV interviews this weekend.
The National Trainers Federation (NTF), who represent more than 400 trainers, could not get behind what the splinter group Savill and his PR advisor Nigel Payne had advocated and that has left the PRA in a situation where they look acutely embarrassed.
It has been a tumultuous four days for racing, all started by the PRA’s combative approach at the weekend when they made it clear that unless they received a £500,000 payment from television companies, co-operation with pre and post-race debriefs with reporters would be ceased.
This was at odds with the view of Dan Skelton, who is aiming to become National Hunt Champion Trainer for the first time this season.
He went on record the same day and indicated his colleagues felt they were due financial recompense for their time in front of the cameras.
