Keith Knight argues that handicap racing is the lifeblood for smaller trainers

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Image the consequences if, somehow, the BHB were to organise a referendum on whether British racing should retain handicaps and it went the way of Mark Johnston’s view on the matter. We would lose the Lincoln, the Royal Hunt Cup, the Ebor, the Cambridgeshire. My God! We would lose the Grand National! This surely is the road to where true madness lives!
When he says the only handicap the public is interested in is the Grand National he is plainly wrong, as a quick glance at the most po...