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THE BRITISH EBF WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING STALLION STUDS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION, ENABLING OUR £1.6MILLION INVESTMENT IN GB PRIZE MONEY FOR 2018:
BRITISH STALLION STUDS SUPPORTING BRITISH RACING
BATSFORD STUD MICKLEY STUD BEARSTONE STUD MOOR END STUD BEECH TREE STUD NATIONAL STUD BEECHWOOD GRANGE STUD NEWSELLS PARK STUD BUCKLANDS FARM & STUD NORMAN COURT STUD BWLARTH FARM NORTON GROVE STUD CHEVELEY PARK STUD NUNSTAINTON STUD COLMER STUD OAKGROVE STUD DARLEY OVERBURY STUD DONCASTER RACING TEAM/HOME FARM ROYAL STUDS EAST LYNCH STUD SCARROW HILL STUD EISENFARN STUD SHADE OAK STUD market and the commitment of our industry wide rejuvenation of the ELUSIVE BLOODSTOCK SHADWELL CHAIRMAN’S stallion masters, the majority of our staying programme. INTRODUCTION income is derived from stallions standing GAZELEY STUD SIDEHOUSE FARM in Great Britain. As ever, of primary importance to the success of the British EBF are the GIRSONFIELD STUD SNAILWELL STUD In this review there is a picture contributions made by British stallion GROVECOURT STUD THROCKMORTON COURT STUD of the four-time Gr.1 winning colt owners to the fund. The list of studs CRACKSMAN. A son of EBF stallion we would like to thank for making HEDGEHOLME STUD TIR GWERNAU Welcome to the second British EBF FRANKEL, he won on debut in 2016 in our 2018 prize money boosts possible Review. 2018 proved to be another an EBF race which had been developed can be found opposite. In racing’s HIGHCLERE STUD TWEENHILLS STUD exciting year on the racetrack and the alongside the BHA and TBA to provide ever-changing landscape and with the British EBF were, as always proud to opportunities for those horses whose industry facing increasing prize money JUDDMONTE VAUTERHILL STUD be able to support the developmental pedigree suggests that a mile plus challenges, we are in the fortunate races that made up part of the stories of might eventually be their optimum trip. position that the EBF is probably one KINGFISHER STALLIONS WHITSBURY MANOR STUD some of the year’s most successful and CRACKSMAN led home a field of 10 of the few industry organisations that is LANWADES STUD WINTERBECK MANOR STUD promising horses. which also included STRADAVARIOUS actually INCREASING our prize money in fourth place and went on to become contributions for 2019. LLETY FARM WITHYSLADE FARM We are delighted to have an editorial a top-class middle-distance horse and contribution from leading bloodstock is now commencing his career at stud PHILIP MITCHELL LODGE FARM YORTON FARM writer Emma Berry in this year’s edition as a stallion in his own right. In the Chairman, British EBF which can be found on pages 22 and coming years, the contributions he will 23 along with data showcasing our make to the EBF from covering mares investment in both Flat and National at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud will Hunt racing for the year. enable the continuation of the essential developmental races that started him on The source of funding for the EBF can his road to stardom. CRACKSMAN and sometimes be forgotten. As a result of his story, encapsulates the essence of the the strength and diversity of our stallion EBF and our current involvement in the
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CRACKSMAN (FRANKEL): WON AN EBF SIRE/ DAM RESTRICTED MAIDEN ON DEBUT AT NEWMARKET IN 2016 AND WENT ON TO WIN FOUR GR.1 RACES IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE. HE STARTS HIS CAREER AS AN EBF STALLION IN HIS OWN RIGHT IN 2019 AT DALHAM HALL STUD (DARLEY STALLIONS).
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TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH EBF 2018
LAH TI DAH (Dubawi): won the EBF Galtres Stakes (Listed) at York in 2018 by 10 lengths on her way to finishing second in the final Classic of the season, the St Leger at Doncaster
PHILIP MITCHELL FIONA DENNIFF CHRIS RICHARDSON JULIAN RICHMOND WATSON PETER MENDHAM SIMON SWEETING CHAIRMAN INDEPENDENT CHEVELEY PARK STUD TBA CHAIRMAN TBA TRUSTEE OVERBURY STUD Formerly Stud Director of Juddmonte Fiona bred her first flat thoroughbred Chris has been Managing Director of the Julian Richmond-Watson currently serves Peter Mendham is a member of the Simon took up the lease on Overbury Farms; Philip chairs the British EBF board in 1999. Since then horses such as Thompson’s Cheveley Park Stud since as Chairman of The Thoroughbred Board of the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stud in 2000 which coincided with the of trustees and is a member of the flat Molecombe Stakes (Gr.3) winner KACHY 1987 following work in France and the Breeders’ Association. His previous Association and is a TBA nominated opportunity to stand Kayf Tara and the race planning committee. Philip is also a (Kyllachy) and runner up MARY READ USA, including for the Niarchos family roles include Chairman of Newmarket trustee. He is a tax specialist with launch of Overbury Stallions Ltd. In the board member of the National Stud (Bahamian Bounty) have flown the at the Haras de Fresnay Le Buffard Racecourses, Senior Steward of The many years of experience working in early 1990s he spent four seasons at in Newmarket. flag for the Denniff Farms operation. in France, where he looked after the Jockey Club, Chairman of BHB Race the bloodstock industry. On a personal Warren Place as Assistant to Sir Henry TIANA (Diktat) has been a successful stallions including the great Nureyev. Planning Committee, Member of the level he has at various times an owner, Cecil – years that included Bosra Sham’s broodmare, producing multiple Gr.2 Chris then managed Spring Oak Farm in BHB Board, Chairman of the Epsom breeder and pin-hooker. Peter came 1,000 Guineas win. This was followed winner BEAT THE BANK (Paco Boy). Lexington Kentucky for 6 years, before Race Committee, Director of United to the end of his tenure as British EBF by a year in New York overseeing Bobby SAM BULLARD Fiona is a TBA Regional Representative, returning to England to join Cheveley Racecourses, and Non-Executive Trustee in December 2018. Frankel’s string and a further three years DARLEY STALLIONS part of the TBA Small Breeders Group Park Stud. Director of Pure Gym Ltd. with Luca Cumani. Sam Bullard is Director of Darley and the TBA Flat Committee. Having Richmond-Watson owns a stud farm SIMON MOCKRIDGE Stallions for Godolphin Management helped organise the inaugural Leger in Northamptonshire and has bred a Legends race at Doncaster, Fiona is JUDDMONTE FARMS Co Ltd having joined the company in number of winners including Look Here, JAMES MCHALE 2001. Sam’s career in the thoroughbred now part of the Racing Welfare Charity the 2008 Epsom Oaks winner. In 1981 Simon was initially employed INDEPENDENT industry started as an assistant trainer Committee that organise the Clocktower to work at Prince Khalid’s foundation James was appointed as head of in Newmarket after four years in the Cup for Stable Staff at Doncaster. farm Wargrave (formerly and now Weatherbys Bloodstock in December Household Cavalry. He gained further known as Cayton Park Stud). In 1987 2016. He was founder, and director, of experience in Kentucky and Santa Anita, Simon relocated to Newmarket and was Progeny Stallions Ltd, and has held a California before returning to work in the promoted to Stud Manager, to help set number of senior management positions UK at The National Stud. Sam has run his up the newly purchased Banstead Manor working with high profile clients within own successful bloodstock consultancy Stud. In 2016 Simon was appointed the industry. and been a keen amateur jockey with Stud Director of Juddmonte’s UK farms. 40 winners in point to points and under Simon holds board roles with the rules. In addition to his responsibilities at Newmarket Stud Farmers Association Darley Stallions and the British EBF, he (NSFA), Thoroughbred Breeders’ is a member of the Board of Fakenham Association (TBA) Veterinary Committee Racecourse and the Thoroughbred and European Breeders Fund (EBF) Breeders’ Association and is a trustee of World Horse Welfare.
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FOUNDING The British EBF operates under the guidance HOW IS THE PRINCIPLES of the EBF Co-Ordinating Committee, whose BRITISH EBF member countries are: Great Britain, Ireland, FUNDED? France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. 78% • Support & protect races of value to • Provide financial support for the Thoroughbred breed equine research beneficial to the Thoroughbred horse • Implement new races for the benefit 1 voluntary contributions from British of the breed • Ensure a minimum of 70% of 2yo Stallion owners nominating their horses maiden/ novice races in GB are confined to EBF eligible runners (and therefore the resulting progeny) in to the scheme each year. Farms register their stallions in June and pay the balance of the contribution (calculated from the number of mares covered in the preceding covering season) in December the same year.
TIME TEST (Dubawi): stood his first season as an EBF contributing stallion at The National Stud, Newmarket in 2018 18%
2 proportion of the revenue generated from international stallion owner contributions. These are farms outside of the EBF member area (for example the USA and Japan) who wish the progeny of their stallions to be eligible to run in EBF races in Europe. 4%
3 from owners and purchasers paying to opt individual horses in to the scheme that are not the progeny of EBF nominated stallions.
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HOW DOES The size of the investable fund is dictated by the HISTORICAL THE BRITISH strength and diversity of the stallion population and INVESTMENT their associated income. In 2018, this translated in to EBF INVEST £1.6million for flat racing and £125,000 for National CHART THE FUND? Hunt racing. Since 1983, £34,700,000 1. Flat Prize Money In addition, ring-fenced funds are used for: has been invested in to £1.52million directly in to boosting the prize money. 4. Veterinary Research prize money in British £20,000 per year. We are currently 2. British EBF Development co-funding a project in to parasite racing via the EBF Fund £80,000 is set aside for resistance research at the University investment to either enhance or of Cambridge in conjunction with initiate flat races that fit the EBF the HBLB (Levy Board) and the TBA mandate to improve the breed. (Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association)
3. NH Prize Money 5. UK Emergency Disease £995,500 £1,0 67, 50 0 £1,309,000 £1,600,000 £1,600,000 £1,600,000 £125,000 a year is invested in Outbreak Fund National Hunt prize money £50,000. In the event of an equine and supporting the breeding of disease outbreak in the thoroughbred National Hunt young stock. population, this money may be accessed to affect emergency help. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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BRITISH EBF FINANCIAL SUMMARY
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SUPPORTING RACES CARRYING BRITISH EBF FUNDS ACCOUNTED 2018 FLAT A TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF FOR 17. 5% OF PRIZE MONEY IN SEASON IN RACES CARRYING EBF CONDITIONS SUMMARY £9,018,979
IN ADDITION, THE BRITISH EBF SUPPORTED THE TBA FLAT STALLION PARADE AT TATTERSALLS (FEBRUARY 2018)
3YO/3YO+ 2YO LISTED 2YO RACES MAIDEN, NOVICE & RACES £482,000 703 CONDITIONS RACES £80,0000 £146,500 FLAT RACES RUN WITH EBF CONDITIONS (ACCOUNTS FOR 5% DIVISIONS AND ABANDONMENTS) 9%
31% £1,577,000 20% CONTRIBUTED TO PRIZE MONEY 35%
3YO/3YO 3YO/3YO + LISTED RACES +HANDICAPS 14 £322,500 £546,000 15 BRITISH EFB REVIEW 2018
RACE TYPE £EBF INVESTMENT 2019 FLAT NOTABLE 2YO RACES £619,000 SEASON – CHANGES IN 2YO LISTED RACES £80,000 PROJECTED INVESTMENT 3YO/ 3YO+ MAIDEN, NOVICE & CONDITIONS RACES £146,000 INVESTMENT STRATEGY FROM 3YO/ 3YO+ HANDICAPS £483,000 2018 TO 2019 3YO/ 3YO+ LISTED RACES £300,000
DEVELOPMENT FUND £80,000 Increased coverage of two-year-old novice and maiden races.
In conjunction with The Racing Group and BHA Race Planning, we aim to cover a greater number of juvenile races with EBF conditions in 2019. This is to keep pace with the coverage attained by our counterparts on the main EBF Co-ordinating Committee and to help provide a secure base for our funding in years to come.
Sire/ Dam Restricted races
The number of these races will increase from 2018 to 2019 due to their success over the last 2 seasons. We are currently working with a third party to 616 double our prize money contribution in this sector which promotes the wider RACES CONFINED TO EBF industry objectives of re-developing the CONDITIONS (BEFORE DIVISION staying type and provides significant opportunities for more stoutly bred OF RACES) horses to run as two-year-olds.
British EBF Premier £1,708,000 Handicap Series Following consultation with the BEBF board of Trustees and the British INVESTMENT IN TO PRIZE MONEY Horseracing Authority, the group (ABANDONMENTS EXPECTED) of races formally known as the EBF Breeders’ Fillies’ Series has been disbanded. In its place, a series of high value fillies’ handicaps will run across the 2019 season providing regular, SUPPORT FOR THE TBA FLAT progressive opportunities from Class 4 STALLION PARADE AT TATTERSALLS to Class 2 for fillies aged three years (FEBRUARY 2019) and over.
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2017/18 PROJECTED BRITISH EBF 2018/19 BRITISH NATIONAL HUNT EBF NATIONAL SUMMARY HUNT SUPPORT
76 86
RACES OVER 40 RACECOURSES RACES OVER 40 RACECOURSES £139,000 £150,000
OF SUPPORT FOR RACES PRIZE MONEY INVESTMENT CARRYING A TOTAL PRIZE 2018/19 SUPPORTING RACES FUND OF NEARLY £800,000 WORTH OVER £850,000
EBF Mares’ NH Novice Hurdle Finale, Newbury Racecourse
Table shows actual number of races run in 2017/ 2018 season The trustees of the British EBF acknowledge the Thoroughbred accounting for divisions and abandonments In addition, the Breeders’ Association contribution to the Mares’ Novice Chase British EBF supported the TBA National Hunt Foal Show and Series and the finals of the Mares’ Hurdle and Mares’ National Hunt Stallion Showcase. Flat Race Series for both the 2017/ 2018 and 2018/ 2019 season.
2018 - 2019 National Hunt Races 2018 - 2019 National Hunt Races
CATEGORY NO OF RACES TOTAL PRIZE FUND EBF CONTRIBUTION CATEGORY NO OF RACES TOTAL PRIZE FUND EBF CONTRIBUTION
EBF/TBA Mares’ Novice Chase Races 12 £159,704.00 £28,500.00 EBF/TBA Mares’ Novice Chase Races 12 £171,400.00 £28,500.00
EBF Mares’ National Hunt Flat Races 10 £64,800.00 £20,000.00 EBF Mares’ National Hunt Flat Races 13 £82,850.00 £24,000.00
EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle Races 11 £114,900.00 £22,000.00 EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle Races 17 £155,883.00 £28,000.00
EBF Novice Hurdle Series 40 £409,000.00 £59,000.00 EBF Novice Hurdle Series 41 £393,700.00 £60,000.00
EBF Feature Races 3 £51,500.00 £10,000.00 EBF Feature Races 3 £51,500.00 £10,000.00
76 £799,904.00 £139,500.00 86 £855,333.00 £150,500.00
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NATIONAL The majority of the annual EBF contribution to National Hunt racing is focused on supporting the HUNT RACING aims of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and PROJECTS Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (TBA) in their PRIZE MONEY SUPPORT aims to create a coherent race programme for mares, in turn encouraging owners and trainers to race their mares more often and ultimately test them on the race track to support future breeding decisions.
The support is split in to three series which covers 40 qualifiers categories: Mares’ Novice Chase and culminates in a £75,000 final (co-supported by the TBA); Mares’ at Sandown Park. Novice Hurdle and a Mares’ National Hunt Flat races; each carrying Following consultation with the BHA a valuable spring final at Listed race planning department, all EBF class or above. National Hunt “Series” races will be comprised of qualifiers and finals; In addition, the EBF run a very previously, this only applied to the successful open Novice Hurdle EBF Novice Hurdle Series. TBA Stars of Tomorrow NH Foal Show 2018
NATIONAL HUNT BREEDERS’ SUPPORT
TBA STARS OF TOMORROW NATIONAL HUNT FOAL SHOW
The British EBF were again substantial supporters of the TBA Stars of Tomorrow National Hunt Foal Show, held at Bangor on Dee Racecourse. The show gives breeders an opportunity to showcase their young stock to a high-profile panel of experts; the British EBF sponsor the hospitality, hosting up to 200 National Hunt owners, breeders and stallion masters.
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STAYING THE DISTANCE
EMMA BERRY
Think back over the Flat season and often for lucrative prize-money. And yet, the opportunities for such horses, starting which are the names that spring readily there’s still a significant disparity in what from their juvenile seasons. It is a common to mind? Some of us may have to think the majority of owners and agents look misconception that middle-distance horses hard to recall big-race winners, perhaps for at the foal and yearling sales, which don’t race at two, but in many cases even Classic heroes and heroines, but it’s in turn has led to many breeders turning there’s little point in them taking on those a safe bet that none of us will forget the their backs on stallions who are likely to who have been bred for shorter distances likes of Big Orange, Stradivarius, Order breed middle-distance or staying horses. and who are likely to come to hand Of St George, Yeats, Persian Punch and Ironically, any such horse with proven earlier. When it comes to the two-year-old Double Trigger. form which returns to the horses-in- programme, it’s very much a case of ‘if training sales can often be sold for a you build it, they will come’. What these names have in common, small fortune to race on overseas. of course, is that they have all been, or This is an area in which the British remain, stars of the staying division. It In an attempt to halt the decline of the European Breeders’ Fund has been surely wouldn’t be hard for a trainer or stayer and to maintain the diversity delighted to step in to inject some an agent to sell the idea of owning such of the breed, both the Thoroughbred extra funding through prize-money a horse, who returns to battle year after Breeders’ Association and the British for an initiative designed to boost the year, competing at some of the biggest Horseracing Authority have been engaged opportunities available for young race meetings on the world’s stage, in modifying the race programme to boost middle-distance horses. SHEIKHA REIKA (Sharmardal) winning the 2018 British Stallion Studs EBF John Musker Stakes (List- ed) en-route to her victory in the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine, Canada the same year
ROYAL MARINE (Raven’s Pass) won an EBF Sire/ Dam Restricted Maiden Stakes at Doncaster in 2018 en route to winning the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Gr.1) the same season
This year sees the centenary of the In a number of these races the BEBF Oppenheimer and Bjorn Nielsen. Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, a has contributed up to 50% of the total In fact, Cracksman made his winning juvenile listed contest which famously prize fund – in 2018 alone the BEBF debut in the Breeders Support Racing EBF is open only to the offspring of stallions contribution was £56,000 of the total Maiden at Newmarket on 19 October whose sires won over a distance of at prize find of £168,000 for the 14 races 2016. Six lengths behind him in fourth least nine and a half furlongs or 1900 over seven and eight furlongs. This is that day was his former stablemate metres. The BEBF series echoes that idea money that the trustees believe to have Stradivarius. Fast-forward by two years up to a point but goes a step further in been well spent as part of a cohesive and a day and the two great horses each its programme of sire and dam restricted effort across the industry to encourage played their part in a memorable QIPCO races, in which one parent must have the breeding of stayers and to enhance British Champions Day, with Cracksman won at either 10 or 12 furlongs depending their appeal to potential purchasers at the winning the Champion Stakes on his on the conditions of respective races sales. After all, this also helps the stallion swansong and Stradivarius landing the within the series. farms attempting to stand Long Distance Cup to round off a season middle-distance sires. which saw him sail unbeaten through the Over the course of the last four years, Yorkshire Cup, Gold Cup, Goodwood the number of sire and dam restricted Since its inception, the sire and dam Cup and Londsale Cup. He also netted races has grown from four in 2015 to 14 restricted series has already been the the inaugural Weatherbys Hamilton in 2018, and the reason the programme launchpad for a number of black- Stayers Million as a significant bonus has been expanded in this way is largely type performers, with its most famous to his haul of more than £1.6 million in thanks to the growing response from graduates to date being the multiple prize-money – and counting. Who says owners and trainers which has led to a Group 1 winners Cracksman and it doesn’t pay to breed a stayer? really encouraging level of entries for Stradivarius, who respectively have been these races. campaigned by their breeders Anthony
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BRITISH EBF FUNDED 2YO RACES ARE INTEGRAL TO THE RACE PROGRAMME AND BRITISH EBF OVER THE YEARS HAVE PROVIDED THE FIRST STEPS IN THE CAREERS OF SOME OF OUR BEST LOVED AND MOST LAUDED RACEHORSES INCLUDING FRANKEL, GRADUATES CRACKSMAN AND ROARING LION. THIS YEAR WAS NO DIFFERENT WITH SOME OF THE YEAR’S BEST PERFORMERS USING OUR JUVENILE DEVELOPMENTAL RACES 2018 TO REACH THE TOP OF THE CLASS OF 2018.
HORSE GRADUATED VIA EBF RACE: 2018 GROUP RACE(S) HORSE GRADUATED VIA EBF RACE: 2018 GROUP RACE(S)
TOO DARN HOT Won: British EBF Maiden (Windsor) Won: Dewhurst Stakes (Gr.1) PHOENIX OF SPAIN Placed: EBF Novice Stakes (Sandown) Won: Acomb Stakes (Gr.3) (Dubawi) Won: Champagne Stakes (Gr.2) (Lope de Vega) Second: Futurity Trophy Stakes (Gr.1) Second: Champagne Stakes (Gr.2) LINE OF DUTY Won: British EBF Maiden Stakes Won: Breeders’ Cup Juvenille Turf (Galileo) (Goodwood) (GR.1) ANGEL’S HIDEAWAY Won: EBF Fillies’ Novice (Haydock) Won: Princess Margaret Stakes (Gr.3) (Dark Angel) Second: Duchess of Cambridge Stakes ROYAL MEETING Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Great Won: Criterium International (Gr.1) (Gr.2) (Invincible Spirit) Yarmouth) MAIN EDITION Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Windsor) Won: Albany Stakes (Gr.3) ROYAL MARINE Won: EBF Maiden (Doncaster) Won: Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Gr.1) (Zoffany) Won: Sweet Solera Stakes (Gr.3) (Raven’s Pass) ARCTIC SOUND Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Sandown) Won: Tattersalls Stakes (Gr.3) EMARAATY ANA Won: British EBF Novice (Windsor) Won: Gimcrack Stakes (Gr.2) (Poet’s Voice) (Shamardal)
DARK VISION Won: British EBF Novice Stakes Won: Vintage Stakes (Gr.2) THE MACKEM BULLET Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Carlisle) Second: Cheveley Park Stakes (Gr.1) (Dream Ahead) (Gt. Yarmouth) (Society Rock) Second: Lowther Stakes (Gr.2)
SOLDIER’S CALL Placed: EBF Novice Stakes (Lingfield) Won: Flying Childers Stakes (Gr.2) EAST Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Hamilton) Second: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ (Showcasing) Second: Prix de L’Abbey de Longchamp (Frankel) Turf (Grade 1) (Gr.1) WELL DONE FOX Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Salisbury) Second: Flying Childers Stakes (Gr.2) CALYX Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Newmarket) Won: Coventry Stakes (Gr.2) (Acclamation) Second: Cornwallis Stakes (Gr.3) (Kingman) JASH Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Newmarket) Second: Middle Park Stakes (Gr.1) KESSAAR Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Windsor) Won: Mill Reef Stakes (Gr.2) (Kodiac) (Kodiac) LEGENDS OF WAR Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Gt. Second: Gimcrack Stakes (Gr.2) HELLO YOUMZAIN Won: EBF Maiden (Carlisle) Won: Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (Scat Daddy) Yarmouth) (Kodiac) (Gr.2) ARTHUR KITT Won: EBF Novice Stakes (Haydock) Second: Solario Stakes (Gr.3) BEYOND REASON Second: EBF Novice Stakes Won: Prix du Calvados (Gr.2) (Camelot) (Australia) (Newmarket)
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INDUSTRY Over the last two years, the British EBF have been PARTNERS working to develop the image and profile of the organisation within the industry. A major way in which this is being achieved is through partnerships.
The British EBF were announced as a group partner of Jockey Club Racecourses in January 2018; as the funds’ biggest group beneficiary, The Jockey Club were keen to acknowledge the investment to the industry that British Stallion owners make. The EBF is represented on the partners page of the main Jockey Club website and all JCR course sites as well as being included in all group marketing.
Following the partnership with JCR, the British EBF soon established a group partnership plan with Britain’s largest racing group, ARC, whose concerns cover sixteen of the country’s courses. The relationship covers marketing and significant joint investment ventures in the race programme.
The EBN (European Bloodstock News) is a daily publication, specifically for the Thoroughbred breeding industry. The British EBF teamed up with the publication to produce a monthly British based stallion focus, championing the achievements of domestic sires throughout the year. To find out more about the European Bloodstock News and to subscribe, visit: http://www.bloodstocknews.eu.
Racing to School delivers free outdoor learning activities for young people at racecourses, studs and trainers’ yards across the country. The charity also works with young people with special educational needs and over one third of their output in 2018 was targeted to engage those from inner city, rural and deprived areas. The British EBF provided sponsorship opportunities for the charity, donating race titles to help promote the aims of Racing to School throughout 2018. To learn more about the work taken on by Racing to School, visit: http://www.racingtoschool.co.uk
26/2826 27/28 THE EXECUTIVE “I SUSPECT THAT WITHOUT EBF SUPPORT … WE WOULDN’T BE RUNNING THESE DEVELOPMENTAL RACES AT THE PRIZE MONEY LEVELS THAT THEY ARE AT, KERRY MURPHY CEO, EUROPEAN BREEDERS’ FUND WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN MINIMUM VALUE; Kerry joined the EBF in January 2013 having OR ALTERNATIVELY, SOME COURSES JUST WOULDN’T previously run the successful Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme. Kerry’s previous STAGE THEM.” industry experience includes 12 years with Juddmonte Farms and 6 with multiple Champion trainer Sir Michael Stoute.
Kerry is responsible for the overall running of the European wide cooperative that makes up the EBF.
“THE BRITISH EBF PLAYS AN INCREDIBLY CHERYL CAVES OPERATIONS MANAGER, VALUABLE ROLE IN BRITISH RACING. BRITISH EBF THEIR PRIZE MONEY CONTRIBUTIONS Cheryl joined the EBF team in 2002 having previously worked at Godolphin’s ARE OF SIGNIFICANT LONG-TERM Newmarket stud and as a student on the National Stud’s Diploma course. She is BENEFIT TO THE SPORT.” responsible for the day to day running of the British EBF including handling all British-based stallion registrations, managing meetings of the British Trustees and Race Planning Committee and overseeing the implementation of BEBF policy.
CONTRIBUTORS AND CREDITS RACHAEL GOWLAND MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Editor Rachael Gowland MANAGER, BRITISH EBF Design by Studio Tangerine
Rachael started her career in racing Photography Credits “THE EBF IS HUGELY IMPORTANT FOR with Mark Johnston Racing which lead Racingfotos.com ALL BRITISH RACECOURSES. WITHOUT to a season with Amanda Perrett before Jeremy Philips completing the National Stud Diploma John Hoy, Hoy Cubed Photography THE EBF SUPPORT THERE WOULD BE in Stud Practice and Management. After Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association completing seven years at the National Stud York Racecourse A LOT MORE RACES RUN AT MINIMUM in charge of the stud office, nominations Doncaster Racecourse VALUE – THEIR SUPPORT IS CRITICAL.” and marketing she moved to Shadwell Estate Great Yarmouth Racecourse Company Ltd to head up the Marketing and Exeter Racecourse Nominations team. Disclaimer Rachael’s British EBF responsibilities include While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in marketing, PR and communication for the this publication, the British EBF accept no British EBF brand; liaison with the BHA and responsibility for any error or omission that racecourses for the strategic planning and may arise. All statistics correct at time of funding of the BEBF race programme as well going to press. This document may not be reproduced in any form or by any means as being the British EBF representative at without the prior written consent of the race meetings and industry events. British EBF.
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