"The equine business is being killed by Brexit,” Olympic gold medal-winning rider Nick Skelton told me last week. “It’s been catastrophic as far as the movement of horses to and from Europe is concerned.”

Horse racing and breeding in the UK is being hit by rules over exports brought about by the exit from the European Union, industry figures have warned.

Irish trainer Ado McGuiness says Brexit has caused more problems for Irish horseracing than COVID.