IT would be understating things to say the last month or so hasn’t been the happiest one for horse racing in this country and despite some performances of great note on the track the undertone has not been a positive one and it feels like this is a sport under siege.

Since Jim Bolger’s explosive interview with Paul Kimmage in The Sunday Independent last month there has been anything but a feeling of positivity within Irish racing circles. What has happened in the interim has been an information vacuum in which numerous theories have abounded.