Racing’s shame

I DON’T USUALLY TURN TO THE NEW YORKER FOR ITS TAKE ON racing. Even on US dirt tracks. And its new podcast series, The Runaway Princesses, isn’t really about racing. Except that it is. The New Yorker’s blurb describes the podcast as: “A story of why the women in Sheikh Mohammed’s family keep trying to run away and what’s happening to them when they do.” It is riveting, and I recommend it even if you have no interest in racing, just as a piece of brilliant investigative journalism. But if racing is your thing, then you really need to listen, because Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the man on whom British racing is — this is no exaggeration — utterly dependent. As ruler of Dubai, and vice president, prime…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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