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Newsletter Update www.racecourseassociation.co.uk September 2019 September updatenewsletter CONTENTS Welcome 03 Showcase & Awards - Owners 06 07 Experience On Track 07 Racecourse in Focus Ffos Las 08 Save The Date 09 RCA Technical Group 10 Badges & Pass 2019 11 Racegoers Club 12 Five Minutes of Fame 13 Ascot Racecourse 15 York Racecourse 16 GBRI 17 Racing to School 18 Racing Together 19 Racing Foundation 20 Pony Racing Authority 21 RaceTech 22 Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff 23 Racehorse Owners Association 24 TBA 25 Careers in Racing 26 Watt Fences 28 Duralock 29 Overview of British Racing 30 Diary Dates / Contributors / Staff 31 Contact List 12 18 20 Front Cover: Image courtesy York Racecourse 2 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page WELCOMEWords by Paul Swain Showcase submissions that have been flying through our surgery this month. In the best way possible, I hope they give our judges a real headache such is their quality! With it being our tenth year, we wanted to mark the occasion appropriately and what better way than taking the RCA’s marquee event to Sunflow lanyards are becoming the ubiquitious symbol of support for Scotland for the first time. invisible disability As Showcase Champions, Hamilton Park will provide a Heathrow Airport and London North wonderful evening and are making more East Railway (LNER) to discuss their Showcase history by being the first amazing sunflower lanyard initiatives to smaller racecourse to host the event. help customers with invisible disabilities, It’s times like this that you remember something that the RCA will be leading We have extended the portfolio of sport really is the most important of with all racecourses shortly. The team awards this year to include Diversity & unimportant things… has also begun to research accessible Inclusion, a vital area of focus that the spaces and toilets, ensuring that as a Paraphrasing sports psychologist sport needs to demonstrate if we are sport we are ready to ensure all who and friend of the Showcase Awards to continue as Britain’s second most come for a day’s racing can enjoy the Michael Caulfield there, but with all the attended sport in the future. The sport’s experience. comings and goings in Westminster, it’s Diversity in Racing Steering Group a timely reminder that those of us that has been a key driver for this award to In team news, it’s been a pleasure to work in racing and sport in general are be included in Showcase and we are welcome the newest addition to the lucky to do so and that no matter how thankful for their challenge and direction RCA, Dan Franzen. Dan joins us from crazy Brexit and the associated fallout in bringing it to the table for 2019. Gatwick Airport as Finance Manager & gets, we can always lose ourselves for Business Analyst, bringing a wealth of On the subject of diversity and inclusion, a few hours in something that we are experience and new skills to compliment the RCA has been working hard to passionate about. the existing team. develop fresh guidance and initiatives Update Speaking of passion, it’s been great to to make every day’s racing as accessible Enjoy September’s and we hope see the care and attention given to the as possible. I recently spent time with to see you out racing soon. Live sport and racing in particular is a great escape from the pressures of life 3 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page 4 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page NEWS FROM THE RCA The latest from On Track, Racecourse in Focus, and the Racegoers Club. 5 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page SHOWCASE & AWARDS – OWNERS’ EXPERIENCE The Racecourse Association (RCA) For this award, members of the ROA “I extend my congratulations to the and Racehorse Owners Association were invited to nominate racecourses teams in being named as Finalists and (ROA) are delighted to announce the for examples of where they had met wish them the best of luck ahead of five racecourses that have been named and exceeded expectations relating the Awards ceremony at Hamilton as Finalists in the Owners’ Experience to the raceday experience for owners. Park Racecourse on Thursday 14th category for the prestigious Showcase The Showcase principles of excellence November.” & Awards. and innovation were paramount in the selections, with the five Finalists Charlie Liverton, ROA Chief Executive, Hosted by the RCA, the Showcase & receiving multiple nominations from said, “The owners raceday experience Awards is the marquee event of British ROA members. is a hugely important part of the wider racecourses that annually celebrates racehorse ownership experience first class customer experience in Caroline Davies, RCA Racecourse and this is reinforced to the ROA partnership with Moët Hennessy, Racing Services Director, said, “I am thrilled for by owners, daily. There have been a Post and Great British Racing. the five racecourses named as Finalists number of improvements across the in the Owners’ Experience category at country at racecourses that should, Ayr, Bangor-On-Dee, Haydock Park, the 2019 Showcase & Awards. rightly, be celebrated and our thanks Musselburgh and Newbury have and congratulations go to this year’s been listed as Finalists in the Owners’ “The owners experience is a vital finalists.” Experience category. From the five part in the growth of our sport and Finalists, the winner will be revealed at it is paramount that we continue to the Showcase & Awards ceremony on celebrate the best that racecourses Thursday 14th November at Hamilton have to offer in this area. Park Racecourse. 6 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page ON TRACK – THE RACING MEN: CLIFTON & WALSH New faces, fresh perspectives on an “I probably existed in a bit of a bubble annual process: the driving forces at the Racing Post and had never come behind the RCA’s Race Planning division, across the detailed discussions and Racing Director Andy Clifton and Racing negotiations that lead into the final Executive Kevin Walsh, have completed fixture list. I had no appreciation of the their first full sessions working on the different mechanics that go into its 2020 fixture list, which was published by compilation through communication the BHA a couple of weeks ago. and consultation, the different versions it involves, and the considerations Clifton, who joined the RCA in there are involving 59 racecourses with September 2017, when work on varying business models.” compiling the 2019 programme had already begun, says: “This year’s process was more challenging because of the talk about reducing the size of the “This year’s process fixture list, which for 2020 represents was more challenging Andy Clifton joined the RCA in 2017 with a deep the final year of a three-year agreed understanding of the sport’s fixture list arrangement on prize-money that because of the talk included paying appearance money and about reducing the size “Then there are the number of people allocating more into the lower tiers.” involved in the process, including the of the fixture list." - work done by the Levy Board. Prior Clifton had been involved in fixture to coming to the RCA, I wouldn’t have arrangements for a single racecourse Andy Clifton considered exactly how important the in his previous role as Head of Levy Board is in compiling the fixture Communications at Newbury and also list. I had a vague awareness but not a many years ago in the race planning Delving more deeply into the process, full appreciation of the level of detail and department, but for Walsh, who arrived he adds: “Then there are the details – data it feeds into the process. at the RCA from the Racing Post, where the difference between a racecourse he was Senior Social Media Executive, fixture and a BHA fixture, for instance “I have had experience with data in February 2018, this was the first time – about which I probably had an analysis in previous roles, mainly on he had experienced a full body of work in awareness but no deep knowledge. the social media side, so I had a bit of a preparing the details. That’s been a great learning experience. background in that area, but I’ve had to “Seeing how fixtures are allocated, upskill myself on that front, which I’ve Walsh reflects: “Looking back over the what the BHA’s considerations are, and been able to do on the job.” process, the main thing that strikes me fixture criteria: they are all areas which I is that I gained a real appreciation for hadn’t been exposed to previously, but To read the full On Track article, please how much time and effort goes into it as they go together to make up the level of click here. the process developed. detail that goes into part of my role at the RCA. Creating Racing’s fixture list is a complex science and combined effort 7 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page RACECOURSE IN FOCUS - FROM COAL TO COURSE In the heart of rural Carmarthenshire Europe into the magnificent racecourse Concert in May that attracted 9,000 lies what many local racegoers like to that stands today. customers. This was a really significant refer to as ‘the hidden gem of Welsh highlight in our 10-year celebration, Following a long and rigorous journey, racing’. and we would like to capitalise on this the racecourse was ready for its first product for future events. Ffos Las Racecourse, formerly an open- meeting in June 2009 where almost cast coal mine, has been celebrating 10,000 racegoers flooded into the “By combining greater on-course its 10-year anniversary.
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