British racing`s future funding plan is set to be hotly-debated next week with racecourses worried that the British Horseracing Board will be given too big a slice of the cash.
Under a revamped system the British Horseracing Board is proposing that it will receive 20% of the extra income generated from media rights and other sources with 40% going to racecourses and 40% to prize money.
Current income, principally the #60m a year from the levy, will be distributed as it is now when the levy is scrapped.
The Racecourse Association`s chairman Angus Crichton-Miller is believed to be going to suggest at a meeting on Tuesday that the racecourses should get 50% of the new income with 40% allocated to prize money and only 10% to the BHB.
But the RCA chief executive Stephen Atkin insisted the outcome of next week`s meeting was 'difficult to predict'.
'There is some concern about what the BHB would do with its share of the money and they need to come up with some specific proposals,' he said.
'At the moment we are uncertain how the BHB proposes to spend their share of the money and we want to know how they intend to spend it.
'This whole thing is an extremely complex issue and we will be aiming to try to put some flesh on the bones of the proposals.'
The BHB chairman Peter Savill is reported to be dismayed over the way the RCA has handled the matter.
He has warned that there could be changes to the plan to distribute current income on an unchanged basis if the racecourses reject the proposals for the distribution of new income.
Any changes could seriously hit racecourses many of whom rely on receiving basic daily rates for prize money and fixture incentives.
Atkin said: 'It`s extremely disappointing that these things are played out in the Press.
'The racecourses want to work with the rest of the industry but there is still a lot of detail to be filled in and they really haven`t decided the right next step.
'The owners of racecourses must carefully decide what they want to do with their rights. The impact on the courses will be big and it`s important that they make the right decisions.'
