Nick Luck Daily Ep 1641 – Has racing escaped another tax cataclysm?

Nick kicks off the show this Wednesday morning with Regulus Partners’ Dan Waugh, reacting to a report in The Times that Machine Gaming Duty is set to rise to 25 per cent in next week’s budget rather than the feared 40 per cent. Racing Post senior writer Lee Mottershead joins Nick to unpack the story and what it says about racing’s lobbying, plus Flutter’s job cuts and ex-Gosden stayer Point of Law’s Geelong Cup win. George Scott confirms Bay City Roller will join Ombudsman in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland, while Jayne McGivern explains why she has brought Hukum back from Japan to stand at Overbury alongside Golden Horn. In France, Nick Bell reveals why Haras de Meautry is standing a stallion for the first time in 20 years, and Timeform’s David Johnson looks back on Champions Day and where Ombudsman ranks among the Gosden greats.