Every year the British public bets a total of £300,000,000 on flat racing. This works out at £6 for every man, woman, and child in the country.
Flat racing is not only a sport-it is a vast industry. It is controlled by the Jockey Club, which was created in the eighteenth century and has hardly changed since.
Woodrow Wyatt asks whether it meets the needs of today-Does the punter get a fair deal-and how clean is racing? He talks to jockeys, trainers, owners, bookies, punters great and small, and the Stewards of the Jockey Club itself.
A programme on film devised and directed by Woodrow Wyatt