The jockeys’ union says “extended delays” to the upgrades of weighing room facilities is “prolonging discrimination” to female jockeys.
In December, it emerged that 80% of British racecourses had missed a deadline to modernise facilities.
These included providing additional private changing and shower facilities, communal eating areas and warm-up areas and new communal working areas for valets.
The Professional Jockeys Association (PJA) wrote to its members this week saying it had received reports of “sub-standard race day facilities”, including mould, flooding and overcrowded changing rooms.
Its criticism came as the horse racing industry launched a new workforce strategy, , externalacknowledging the need for a change in “culture”…