Officials are hoping the changes will improve their view of the weighing room and the racetrack.

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Patient yet courageous, he is known for being able to get more out of horses than some of his weighing room rivals.

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But just as Gallagher was experiencing an unexpected success, so his weighing room colleague McCoy was tasting a bitter and unexpected low.

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The only access to a phone would have been from the weighing room security officer, who can authorise the use of a Jockey Club mobile for outgoing calls.

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And to cap it all, he was invited to perform for the jockeys in the hallowed weighing room at jump racing headquarters after the action had finished on Wednesday.

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"What we want to do is make better use of the space we've got already in what's a popular stand ideally located with a view of the track, the parade ring and the weighing room, " he said.

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There were meat cleavers, knives, wooden chopping blocks, a commercial sausage making machine, a commercial meat mincing machine and weighing scales in the room as well, it said.

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