Gambling clampdown: Racing and Dogs ok 👍

Racing Post.........I like the train of thought.

Peers have given horse and greyhound racing an exemption from tight restrictions on gambling advertising recommended in the latest hard-hitting report from Westminster on the gambling industry.

Writing in the Racing Post, Lord Grade, the chair of the House of Lords Gambling Industry Committee, said they had recognised the benefits of the relationship between racing and gambling but warned it contained inherent risks.

The committee's report, published on Thursday, also urged the government to take urgent action over what Grade described as the "ideal conditions for addictive 24-7 gambling", while peers had also been "shocked" by the behaviour of some gambling operators.

Among 66 recommendations made in the report is that gambling operators should no longer be allowed to advertise on the shirts of sports teams and that there should also be no gambling advertising in or near any sports grounds or venues.

It adds that "these restrictions should not apply to horseracing or greyhound racing".