Class barriers to return

Sandown racecourse is to abandon its combined-enclosures experiment that has been attempted on certain race-days and return to separate Club and Tattersalls enclosures in an effort to boost attendances.

Stephen Wallis, racing manager at Sandown, said: "Combined enclosures deprived those racegoers who wanted to pay for exclusivity the opportunity to do so and made admission look expensive for those who wanted to pay for the basic products. Choice will be the watchword."