If you have even a passing interest in UK horse racing you will probably be aware that the UK Gambling Commission has announced the implementation of Financial Risk Assessments.

Many prominent horse racing accounts on X have been expressing their outrage about the new thresholds introduced by the UK Gambling Commission which will trigger Financial Risk Assessments.

I'm born and bred in Laytown, 10 minutes down the road from Bellewstown. Our family came from Laytown - my father, my grandfather and my great grand-uncle have all trained on the beach at Laytown.

This year marks 300 years of horse racing in Bellewstown and I'm on the committee here probably more than 30 years. I'm currently the vice-chairman. My father has been on the committee, and my uncle has been on it along with my grandfather, so we are a long time at it. I get a great buzz from it. We have grown this racetrack from three days racing up to nine days racing this year, and we have pumped a huge amount of money into improvements especially in the last 8-10 years. We built a new stableyard which cost over €500,000 and I think that anyone that uses it has been very complimentary of it. It works very well and is close to the parade ring.