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VIRTUAL WEST Sunday 8th November 2020 Contents 5 Welcome 11 Paul Ferguson – West Horses to Follow 7 Instagram Takeover Timetable 15 Hear from our syndicate partners 8 JoJo O’Neill – The West Country 19 West Trainers & Racecourses 5 THINGS NOT TO MISS TODAY 1. Head over to Racing Welfare’s Instagram stories for six takeovers 2. Visit thirteen stable yards across the West and hear their horses to follow 3. Go behind the scenes in a Point to Point and Pre-training operation 4. Watch Bangor on Dee Racecourse and Chepstow Racecourse highlights 5. Book your place on the Virtual Jumps Season Preview Evening on Thursday 12th November Welcome to the Virtual West Open Day COVID 19 Enjoy a virtual showcase of racing in the West as the National Hunt season jumps into action. Emergency Appeal We are delighted to bring the best of West racing to you in the comfort of your home and hope you enjoy all of the fabulous insights on offer. Our exclusive content can be watched via www.racingwelfare.co.uk/westopenday, by following @racingwelfare on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and on our YouTube channel. Proceeds generated from the Virtual West Open Day will be used to provide a full range of support services to all of racing’s people and will go towards local projects. We are incredibly grateful for the continued support of Sporting Life, to the organisations and their teams who have submitted their behind the scenes footage and the individuals who have featured in the films and Instagram Lives – without them today would not be possible. I hope you enjoy the Virtual West Open Day and insight into this incredible region and its people. Dawn Goodfellow Chief Executive, Racing Welfare Help us to continue supporting the workforce behind the British horseracing industry. We are facing a unique and challenging time in our lives. And your kindness truly does make a huge impact and dierence to these people’s lives, more than ever. Donate at justgiving.com/campaign/RWEmergencyAppeal 5 | INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER Follow @racingwelfare on instagram to view exclusive content from racing organisations across the West DRAW EVERY FRIDAY 3PM per ticket ENTER THE HELLO AND WELCOME 9.00 A welcome from Dawn Goodfellow, Chief Executive of Racing Welfare RACEHORSE LOTTO 10.00 GETTING TO KNOW THEM Hear from Jack Lander, Jonjo O'Neill Jr and Carl SOLE RACEHORSE Llewellyn 11.00 RACEHORSE FARRIER OWNERSHIP COULD Dan Hubbard, farrier of Kauto Star, Denman and BE YOURS FOR £3 Big Bucks to name a few gives an insight POINTING AND PRE TRAINING 12.00 Charlie Poste discusses his training operation alongside his wife Francesca Nimmo THE RACING TACKROOM 13.00 Andrea Kelly, travelling head girl at Tim Vaughan Racing gives a tour of the racing tackroom TOUR OF NEWTON ABBOT 14.00 Managing Director Pat Masterson gives a tour of the popular Devonshire jumps track SCHOOLING WITH THE SKELTONS 15.00 Enjoy a behind the scenes schooling session at 20% OF LOTTO TICKET SALES Dan Skelton Racing with jockeys Harry and Bridget GOES TO RACING WELFARE EVERY MONTH 16.00 THAT'S A WRAP Thanks for following the Virtual West Open Day 7 | FIND OUT MORE AT RACEHORSELOTTO.COM JoJo O’Neill – The West Country Jo O’Neill, often known as JoJo, has spent the last few years working as a groom element. The local race meetings at Cheltenham also mean the pubs are full and a in horseracing. She currently working full time for Jonjo O’Neill in the Cotswolds, good night is guaranteed, especially after a winner! having previously spent time at Robin Dickin’s and Nigel Twiston-Davies’, amongst some other smaller trainers. In the horseracing industry, life is always busy – there is so much racing nowadays that it is hard to get the time to have fun. The pace does not slacken much in the JoJo loves the racehorses, the sport and the people. Through her website; Over summer for the National Hunt fraternity and for people in Flat, the winter months The Stable Door, she highlights as many of these aspects as possible and gives us a also stay busy. If it is not racing, it is the sales or overnights, all accumulating in a lot flavour of the racing community in the West. of early mornings and late finishes. Yet, seeing all my friends at these keep me going – the quick conversations, the laughter, jokes and advice. Nowadays, the online community goes beyond any county boundaries. On the whole, Horseracing is often centred on the three hotspots of Newmarket, Lambourn and social media brings yards together virtually by sharing photos, achievements and Middleham, yet there are yards that are situated all around the country, everywhere winners, advertising jobs and sharing snippets of our daily lives. Often, an individual in between! These yards are not nestled as closely together but there is still a feeling of achievement becomes one for a whole yard, and thus every individual feels part a racing community; it’s just more spread out geographically. I work in the Cotswolds, of the team. Stable staff always message each other in celebration or sometimes, Gloucestershire and after the 2010 Gold Cup and Grand National, which were both commiseration in the sad times. Once, I heard us all be described as a ‘racing family’, won by nearby yards, we partied for weeks afterwards. In my first full time job, I a phrase that I’ve adopted and it describes working in racing perfectly. We look after remember the yards playing football matches against each other, in indoor schools one another, we’re all a large, quirky family. or on five-aside pitches. The casual matches grew into a competitive tournament and helped pass the dark winter evenings. Within the Cotswolds, the racing yards Racing is a great life, with great people and great times. I hope you enjoy this virtual are spread out, smaller ones as well as bigger ones but we are all connected by this open day and that it gives you a glimpse of our racing lives, a small insight into sport, which is more often than not our social life too. how it is. It is a tough life but it’s also the best sport that you can be involved with. Please look at my new website www.overthestabledoor.com for further insights, A lynchpin between the yards is the local pubs, where we celebrate winners, socialise interviews and a monthly blog all to do with horseracing. and eat out. At a time, there would be certain cheesy discos put on once a month, or Irish music nights and a lot of the yards would come together at these. There were also hunt balls or dinner dances at Cheltenham Racecourse, often with a charitable | 8 9 | The Perfect Gift For Christmas Our range of 2021 Racing Diaries and Calendars are the perfect gift for the racing fan in your life, or spoil yourself - why not? 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