The BHA Podcast returns with a stellar panel of racing industry specialists to discuss the sport’s welfare record in the wake of the publication of the Horse Welfare Board’s new five-year welfare strategy, ‘A Life Well Lived’.

British racing this week launched its latest five-year horse welfare strategy, setting out key priorities to drive further improvements in the welfare and safety of thoroughbreds throughout their lives. You can read it here: British horseracing launches new five-year welfare strategy which sets out ambition of lifetime trac…

So at this crucial juncture, we convened an expert panel to talk about welfare in our sport: What does this strategy mean, what have we been doing and what does the sport need to do to secure its future for generations to come?

Baroness Minette Batters (Chair of the Horse Welfare Board), Brant Dunshea (Chief Executive of the BHA), James Given (Director of Equine Regulation, Safety and Welfare at the BHA), Toby Lawes (trainer) and Tom Scudamore (former jockey and broadcaster) join host Nick Lightfoot to discuss it all.

Before that, the pod pays tribute to the late Tom O’Brien; a much-loved former jockey of the highest order and a beloved BHA colleague.