Racing / Point-to-Point: Out of the woods

Out of the woods at the first Sunday point-to-point yesterday at Ashorne, Warwickshire, but the campaign for regular racing on the Sabbath has some way

to go before it makes a clear breakthrough. Changes to the Sunday trading laws are unlikely until next year and gaming laws would then have to be amended

before racing with betting could take place - the 6,000 crowd yesterday could indulge only in a lottery on the races. Tristram Ricketts, chief executive

designate of the British Horseracing Board, warned that it could be 1996 before the campaign achieved its objective.

Photograph: Robert Hallam

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