Racing at war as top trainers say they will boycott ITV coverage unless they are paid for interviews TOP horse trainers have said they will boycott ITV coverage this weekend unless they are paid for interviews.
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.
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.
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'.
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