Simon Munir@simon_munir

Quotas and protectionism are not the way forward for any sport. Sport is all about competition and at the highest level it’s global competition. The solution is surely buy better, train better, place horses smarter and strive to be the best. Trying to stop free competition whether it be in Ireland or England can only damage the sport.

Jason Brautigam@DizzyJB

The fact that Gigginstown are so enraged by this proposition indicates that the BHA are on exactly the right tracks. But they need to close all the loopholes: must be registered with the trainer six months before the run etc. or impose a limit of four per owner too.

Grant James Thomas@Grant_Some92

There’s just not the horse population for it at the moment, well at least the calibre of horse. To me it’s a bad move if it’s implemented. Yes, you could argue a point for domination of the sport from a select band of trainers, but with the same hand you shouldn’t restrict owners!

Gavin Lynch@GLynchRacing

This proposed new rule of a max of 4 runners per trainer could backfire on the BHA as Gigginstown will likely run as many as they can in the Grand National under different trainers, just to annoy them.

Mike Murphy@murphman52

This is actually madness. It’s punishing the best in the game. In any sport you want to see the best against each other. Sure why not limit it to 2. They’ll still batter whatever donkeys the average trainers have just make up the numbers.

Stephen Cass@CassStephen

The nature of some sports is to facilitate fairer competition. Soccer with FFP, NFL with the draft system. The spectacle for the punter is the outright most important thing. More important than owners or trainers.

Heidi Kreizinger@KreizingerHeidi

How about sending your horses to mid-level trainers that haven’t got the chance to move up.

Reply - Repole Stable@RepoleStable

I did 16 years ago… his name is Todd Pletcher!!!!!