The article features insights from key figures in British horse racing, highlighting challenges and needed reforms in the industry. Fiona Williams criticizes the obsession with “fashionable” stallions, arguing it harms breeding quality and marginalizes proven sires, while advocating for stricter whip regulations to improve horse welfare and riding standards. Ian Gosden calls for greater support and investment in grassroots and UK point-to-point racing to retain talent and funding domestically, emphasizing the financial difficulties faced by smaller owners and breeders. Trainer Richard Hughes stresses the need to increase prize money at the middle tier of racing to sustain horses in training and revive seller and claimer races to maintain a healthy market for racehorses.

Grace Muir MBE, founder of the charity HEROS, demands a genuine, industry-wide commitment to horse welfare beyond superficial measures, urging transparency and accountability from breeding through retirement. She warns against overproduction and insists that aftercare must be a fundamental responsibility, not an optional add-on, to meet ethical standards and public expectations. Collectively, these voices call for systemic changes to ensure the sustainability, fairness, and humane treatment of horses in British racing.