Stanley Leisure

With the Queen herself allegedly throwing her own twopenneth into the racing-during-a crisis debate and a suspected case of foot-and-mouth once more threatening the rescheduled Cheltenham Festival, the bookmaking industry's dark clouds seem to have set in for the duration. But for Stanley Leisure and the rest of the industry, silver linings don't come much brighter than the possible profits increases that analysts are forecasting once the betting duty is abolished next year. Meanwhile in the short term, the Grand National is still slated to go ahead and all the frustrated money ...