In 2007, Trinity Mirror sold the paper for £170m to FL Partners,[2] who appointed former editor Alan Byrne as editor-in-chief and chief executive.

[citation needed] The business was sold to Exponent Private Equity in September 2016, with Richard Segal appointed chairman.

Racing Post employs approximately 300 permanent staff and expanded in 2018 by acquiring a majority stake in the leading sports betting website and app business, Apsley, as well as the acquisition of Leeds-based ICS Media Group, a content provider and digital marketing agency.

In March 2020, the Racing Post announced it would suspend publication of its print edition in response to the halting of British and Irish horseracing because of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).

Sections include news, cards, results, tipping, bloodstock, sports, race day live, statistics, and shop.

[7] The late Queen Elizabeth II, a keen equestrian and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, was said to have read the Racing Post every morning at breakfast, mostly to track the performance of her bloodstock.