A phrase never more apt to describe the industry leadership that has led greyhound racing to the precipice globally. A week of positive headlines for the sport culminating in this weekend’s UK Greyhound Derby is framed in ugly headlines of huge neglect, and welfare issues in Ireland. The sport’s salaried leaders seemingly impotent, entrepreneurs with real skin in the game derided for taking real risks, and avaricious private investors plucking the scraps from the carcass of an once great sport.
A lesson to any proud industry and incumbents that the price of a failure to reinvent, is a slow, turgid path to ambivalence and poverty.
