While the future of jump racing appears bleak, there is plenty of scope for a Scandinavian revival on the flat

Towards the end of the 19th century, when a thoroughbred industry took root in Scandinavia, it was, uniquely, jump racing that leapt ahead. Today, however, the chase course at Øvrevoll, Norway’s only racecourse, has been dismantled.
At Bro Park, in Sweden, it took a raft of meetings for a similar circuit to spring up, four years after the course had opened on the flat. Unquestionably, it now seems jump racing regionwide has been all but inundated. And this, for f...