Keith Knight condemns the current trend of retiring top three-year-old colts and fillies

Keith Knight
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Prince Khalid Abdullah

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This month’s piece concentrates on a time-worn chestnut, an issue, to use a phrase from a well-known sciencefiction franchise, ‘that tasks me’. I believe from the depths of my shallow heart that if owners voluntarily came round to my way of thinking many of racing’s financial problems would be eased. If owners refuse to bend, mind you, I would encourage the powers-that-be to bring in regulation to persuade th...