Two stall handlers have urged horse racing authorities to remove stalls from the sport when it returns following the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking to the Guardian, the stall handlers said they have not been given any information about what precautions will be put in place to ensure their safety, despite reports that racing is set to resume this month.
They claimed it was "not possible" to implement social distancing while doing their jobs, with one saying: "Some of these horses need four people to shove them in and where’s the social distancing there? "It’s just not possible.
They should have a month of racing with just flag starts. OK, you couldn’t have sprint races without the stalls but you can have distance races.
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