Greyhound Racing Association boss Clive Feltham has reassured staff at their tracks of the immediate future des-pite more uncertainty.

Risk Capital Partners purchased the GRA for £52.4m, in partnership with Gilliard Homes, with a view to building on all the GRA tracks when the property market was buoyant.

Planning permission to build on Oxford Stadium was turned down by the city council last year, and there have been similar responses in other areas.

Now, I understand that RCP are about to sell shares in their investment, with their building plans unlikely to bear fruit.

Fears heightened with the news this week that Galliard Homes have appointed an architect to draw up plans to build 798 apartments on the site of the Wimbledon track, as well as a multi-screen cinema.

Feltham said: “It’s understandable that people are assessing the GRA. It’s only natural, but nothing will happen immediately.”

The upshot of it all means that all the five GRA tracks could be up for sale to individual buyers.

And judging by the number of people spotted looking around Oxford Stadium over the last few weeks, there is no shortage of interest.

One casualty of the uncertainty is the popular Injured Jockeys Fund meeting due to be held at Oxford in August.

Organiser Steve Murphy has blamed the situation for the collapse of the meeting.

He was responsible for attracting 12 sponsors, but two have dropped out.

That has denied the Oxford public a chance to get close to some personalities in the racing world.

Th the last such meeting a attracted the likes of AP McCoy, Bob Champion and Mick Fitzgerald and raised a lot of money.