"Protesting means losing a day of work, something we can’t afford. But what’s happening here is too serious not to take action."
These are the words of a protester I met that day, during a very rare demonstration in this field of work, as horse racing takes place every day of the year.
The only times when the horse racing world, aside from this demonstration, was brought to a halt in France were during the Covid crisis and the two World Wars...