James Makey@JamesMakey1917

Our sport has been going for nearly 3 centuries contributing fortunes to the economy, yet now more than ever it needs new & young blood possessing factual arguments & reasoning to fight back against the puritans who want everything banned & our culture gone.

Neil Clark@MightyMagyar

Remarkable to think that up to March 2019, Willie Mullins had never trained a winner of the Gold Cup & had ‘only’ won the Grand National once - and that was 14 years earlier. Since then, he has won FIVE Gold Cups and three Grand Nationals. And there’ll be plenty more to come.

Chris Fawcett@chrisgambler247

Andrew Black (Betfair co-founder) ‘(Gambling Commission board has) 10 people all of whom look down their noses at gambling and think it is an unhealthy activity, as far as I can see... there is not a single one of them that has got any history of gambling.’