editor dan roan has today been speaking to the british horse racing authorities chief executive julie harringtond is felt more keenly than perhaps here at cheltenham where the famous were of the festival will be absent for the next few days on the comparisons will be drawn with last year inevitably when as you say there were tens of thousands here, around 100,000 during the four days of action and the decision to press on with the festival was very controversial indeed given there was mounting concern about the pandemic. the authorities were following the advice of the government and the experts but ever since there has been a great deal of regret by many that it did in fact go ahead because it has been blamed to some extent in worsening the situation. very different this year, a range of protocols, the irish personnel that are involved, the jockeys protocols, the irish personnel that are involved, thejockeys and protocols, the irish personnel that are involved, the jockeys and the officials are being kept in their own separate by a secure bubble, but there will be hopes of course that for those

the british horseracing authority's chief executive julie horseracing authority's chief executivejulie harringtonal crisis and set the support needed to redouble its efforts to convince the public at home that welfare is essential to its values following some distressing images of the top irish trainer gordon elliott and the amateurjockey robjames both sitting astride dead horses. both of them have been suspended, elliott is not here but his licence at his yard in ireland was taken over by denise foster and she sat on a winner this after —— this afternoon, and that was a reminder that the crisis from which racing is trying so hard to recover from. which racing is trying so hard to recoverfrom. and perhaps rachel blackmore's historic victory this afternoon could be the tonic that race needs. afternoon could be the tonic that race neede— afternoon could be the tonic that race needs. . ., ., . ~' , ., race needs. laura scott, thank you very much — race needs. laura scott, thank you very much indeed. _ race needs. laura scott, thank you very much indeed. doris _ race needs. laura scott, thank you ver

. >> commissioner harrington: thank you, and thank you, julie, for all of the work that you are doing on this. if you run out of money before you run out of need, can you please come back to us and add more if you're looking at other conservation programs where this kind of idea could be useful, i would really love to see more of that happen. so thank you very much. >> well, terrific. i would love to come back anytime and ask for more money. and we will be providing an update on our 2020 conservation plan, my understanding is coming out before too long. can i ask one more thing, madam president. julie, as you're mapping these, can you map the commercial penetration? i'm just really curious on how that is sort of working out since it was supposed to be done by 2017, right. >> we can map those that we incentivize through our program, yes. >> thank you. >> president maxwell: all right. any further questions or comments? mr. carlin, do you have something to add? >> i was going to add one thing, something that we have worked on for several years. unlike efficiency rebates with our non-taxa

. >> commissioner harrington: thank you, and thank you, julie, for all of the work that you are doingyou run out of money before you run out of need, can you please come back to us and add more if you're looking at other conservation programs where this kind of idea could be useful, i would really love to see more of that happen. so thank you very much. >> well, terrific. i would love to come back anytime and ask for more money. and we will be providing an update on our 2020 conservation plan, my understanding is coming out before too long. can i ask one more thing, madam president. julie, as you're mapping these, can you map the commercial penetration? i'm just really curious on how that is sort of working out since it was supposed to be done by 2017, right. >> we can map those that we incentivize through our program, yes. >> thank you. >> president maxwell: all right. any further questions or comments? mr. carlin, do you have something to add? >> i was going to add one thing, something that we have worked on for several years. unlike efficiency rebates with our non-taxable, and we h