DOCSLIB.ORG

Newsletter Update

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Newsletter Update www.racecourseassociation.co.uk January 2020 updatenewsletter CONTENTS Welcome 03 Horse Racing Ireland 05 06 Vivien Currie MBE 06 Did You Know... 07 Racecourse Groundstaff 07 Badges & Pass 2019 08 Racegoers Club 09 Five Minutes of Fame 11 GBRI 12 Racing to School 13 Racing Together 14 Rise and Rise of Ascot Supports 15 Racing Foundation 16 RaceTech 17 Britbet 18 TBA 19 HBLB 20 Racehorse Owners Association 20 Watt Fences 22 Duralock 23 2020 Horseracing Conference 24 TRIC 25 Diary Dates / Contributors / Staff 26 Contact List 09 One Fit Padded Hurdles Wattfences manufacture and supply the ash frames for One Fit Padded Hurdles to 14 Racecourses across the UK and Ireland. Our hurdles are available with covers & padding, brackets and rubber hurdle caps. 18 22 WEBSITE TELEPHONE EMAIL www.wattfences.com +44 (0)1748822666 [email protected] Watt Fences Ltd, Broken Brea Farm, Easby, North Yorkshire, DL10 7EY 2 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page WELCOMEWords by Paul Swain The good news keeps on rolling for next in what are big steps for the sport. racing fans as we can now say we’re In what can only be described as safely on the road to Cheltenham with being in our element, the RCA team a host of trial meetings taking place were fortunate to be invited to the across the country to determine which Horseracing Ireland racecourse seminar stars of the sport will take their place at to participate in discussions with our the legendary Festival in March. Irish friends on all things customer Away from the sporting action itself, experience and marketing. Our own the Cheltenham team have been busy Showcase Champions, Pontefract ensuring the world-class reputation Racecourse, were amongst the of the Festival is maintained from keynote speakers and the warmth and turf to trackside. This year will see hospitality shown by all who welcomed the introduction of The Park—a new us was most humbling. You can read enclosure created especially for more about the HRI seminar on page 5. racegoers to experience the Festival in Our own operating plan for 2020 is a different way, including big wheel for inspired by our brand values of which the best views of Prestbury Park and innovation is at the forefront. Across live post-racing DJ sets from some big our team we’ll be out and about working A warm welcome to readers of Update names. Carey Weeks, Regional Head with our members across all areas of to 2020! of Partnerships for the Jockey Club running a racecourse, be it customer South West, discusses The Park in detail experience, fixtures and funding, Congratulations must firstly go to Vivien here in a recent interview with Sports finances or turf husbandry. Currie of Hamilton Park who recently Industry Group. discovered she had been awarded Please do keep a look out for invitations the prestigious honour of MBE in the To develop a new enclosure at such a to events across the year—there’s truly New Year’s Honours list for services to prestigious event is incredibly exciting something for everyone no matter what racecourse management, business and and with Cheltenham and Ascot both your role within the sport! charity in Hamilton. doing so in the past few years, all at the RCA are eagerly awaiting what comes 3 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page NEWS FROM THE RCA The latest from Horse Racing Ireland, Vivien Currie MBE, Racecourse Groundstaff Courses and the Racegoers Club. 4 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page SHOWCASE CHAMPIONS ON TOUR—HORSE RACING IRELAND SEMINAR Since being crowned Showcase Champions at Hamilton Park Racecourse in November 2019, the Pontefract Racecourse team has been in high demand. Most recently Chief Operating Officer and Clerk of the Course Richard Hammill travelled to Kilkenny, Ireland, to present at the Horse Racing Ireland seminar. Richard introduced the Yorkshire track to his Irish counterparts, highlighting a number of key initiatives and events that had helped them to be crowned Showcase Champions and going through Pontefract’s 8 Golden The stage is set for the HRI seminar Rules of Customer Service. Insights and Planning Data Analyst at Horse Racing Ireland, who introduced Following the session, Richard said “it Dublin Airport, who spoke about the use HRI’s marketing & commercial plan was a real honour to be invited to speak of data in decision making and changing for 2020, explaining how they wanted at the Horse Racing Ireland Seminar to the mindset away from siloed customer to put the customer at the heart of share what the team at Pontefract has touchpoints to more of a holistic Irish racing and make the most of achieved in the last 12 months. It was a approach in the customer journey. #EveryRacingMoment. fantastic, inspirational day that was full Equally impressive was the racecourse The keynote presentation of the of brilliant ideas for me to take back to panel later in the afternoon where Vicki day came from the inspirational Paul Yorkshire.” Donlon of Leopardstown Racecourse, McNeive who discussed how he John Flannelly of Ballinrobe Racecourse The mix of speakers throughout the overcame huge challenges at a young and Sinéad Cassidy of Galway seminar highlighted best practice age to become Managing Director Racecourse discussed best practice examples from key racecourse areas, of Savills Ireland, highlighting the across their venues in sponsorship, including marketing, operations, importance of a long-term goal and operations and raceday experience facilities, sponsorship, staff mindset and having a plan to achieve this. customer experience. respectively The RCA’s Brand & Experience The day was introduced by Paul Of particular interest to racecourses Manager Paul Swain commented “It Dermody, Chief Executive Officer of was the excellent Hannah Burmanje, was fantastic to attend the HRI seminar at the beautiful Lyrath Park Estate. It was brilliant to see our Showcase Champion Racecourse presenting at the seminar—Richard’s presentation highlighted to the delegates everything that is great about the Yorkshire track and the journey that they have been on to become our Champion Racecourse. “It was impossible to leave without feeling inspired with a long list of ideas. The day also showed that many of the challenges that Irish racecourses are facing are similar to our own so the more we can work together and share best practice the better.” Paul Dermody welcoming delegates from across Ireland 5 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page MBE FOR HAMILTON PARK CHIEF Vivien Currie, Chief Executive of Hamilton Park Racecourse, has been honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. The prestigious award is in recognition of Vivien’s services to racecourse management, business and charity in Hamilton. The recognition comes after an incredible period of success as she enters her 12th year at the helm of Hamilton Park, during which the racecourse has been subject to a series of accolades including RCA Showcase Champion in 2018, a VisitScotland five star venue and ROA Gold Standard. Upon hearing the news of the MBE, Vivien said “the horse racing industry is such a wonderful sport to work in. Every day is different and I have been so fortunate to work alongside so many great people from so many different organisations within it. “My career has been so rewarding thus far; it doesn’t feel like work. To be Vivien with husband John Currie and Chairman Sir Ian Good at the 2019 Showcase & Awards honoured for doing something that I Under Vivien’s management, Hamilton Most recently, the racecourse enjoy so much makes me one of the Park has developed an award-winning completed a £10million hotel luckiest people ever.” reputation within both the business and development which opened to the horseracing communities. public in the summer of 2019. It was also home for a night to British Racecourses when the sport travelled north of the border for the tenth annual RCA Showcase & Awards in November. Offering 118 rooms, the new development created more than 20 new jobs and is projected to generate an additional £5.9m in annual visitor expenditure as well as deliver significant economic impact for the surrounding area. Arguably the first of many, the hotel was the recipient of the RCA Showcase Award for Operational Excellence in 2019, with the independent judging panel commending the vision demonstrated in developing the hotel and the involvement of the full team in its build. The Hampton by Hilton has transformed Hamilton Park since opening in summer 2019 6 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page DID YOU KNOW... Further to the publication of the Sixth representatives and the RCA Safety The updated document has now been Edition of the Guide to Safety at Sports and Medical Groups to review and finalised and can be downloaded from Grounds (The Green Guide), the RCA update the RCA Guide to Safety at the RCA Website Racecourse Services Team has worked Racecourses. with specialist advisors, local authority RCA MEDICAL, VETERINARY, RACING & TURF MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2020 The RCA Medical, Veterinary, Racing & Racecourse Veterinary Teams, Clerks For further information or to book a Turf Management Conference 2020, of the Course, Racecourse Groundstaff place, please contact Holly Cook or partnered by Duralock, will be held at and other members of racecourses Katya Browne at the RCA Doncaster Racecourse on Monday team who would be very welcome to 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday attend. 12 February 2020. The event has been developed based on feedback There are a small number of spaces still from racecourses and is designed to available for the event, at a charge of appeal to Racecourse Medical Teams, £105+VAT per person per day.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Group & Listed
    The World's THURSDAY, 25TH JUNE 2020 Yearling Sale SEPTEMBERSALE BEGINS SUNDAY 13 EBN SEPTEMBER.KEENELAND.COM EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com BUSY DAY FOR DUAL BREEZE-UP SALE The revised Tattersalls Craven and Ascot Breeze-Up Sales take Lot 3 at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale is a colt by Tamarkuz, consigned by Mocklershill. He is out of the Listed place in Newmarket today, with the Craven lots starting St Hugh's Stakes-placed Abby Road (Danehill), from the proceedings in the sales ring at 11:00am and the Ascot horses to family of top US sire Unbridled's Song. © Tattersalls follow from 3:00pm. Commenting early this month, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said: “As well as giving buyers an extended period in which to view the horses prior to the sale, Tattersalls will be reintroducing IN TODAY’S ISSUE... live internet bidding as well as telephone bidding on the day of the sale. First winners for Buratino and The Last Lion p5 “On a practical level, in line with prevailing Government guidelines, Relatively Speaking p10 the sale will be restricted to those attending in a professional capacity. Full health protocols will need to be adhered to by all those Yesterday's Racing Review p14 attending the sale and we will be circulating full details to vendors Stakes Fields p20 and purchasers alike.
    [Show full text]
  • Please Click Here for Racecourse Contact Details
    The Racing Calendar COPYRIGHT UPDATED: MONDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2021 RACECOURSE INFORMATION Owners may purchase additional badges and these badges AINTREE ASCOT may be purchased at the main entrance and will admit partnership or syndicate members to the owners’ and trainers’ facilities only on the day that their horse is running. Numbers of additional badges must be agreed in advance. PASS is operational at all fixtures EXCLUDING Clerk of the Course Miss Sulekha Varma Clerk of the Course C. G. Stickels, Esq. ROYAL ASCOT. Tel: (0151) 523 2600 Tel: Ascot (01344) 878502 Enquiries to PASS helpline Tel: (01933) 270333 Mob: (07715) 640525 Fax: Ascot (0870) 460 1250 Fax: (0151) 522 2920 Email: [email protected] Car Parking Email: [email protected] Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7JX Owners are entitled to free car parking accommodation Chairman Nicholas Wrigley Esq. Chief Executive G. Henderson, Esq. in the owners car park, situated in Car Park No. 2, on the North West Regional Director Dickon White Medical Officers Dr R. Goulds, M.B., B.S., day that their horse is declared to run. No more than two Veterinary Surgeons J. Burgess, T. J. Briggs, Dr R. McKenzie, M.B., B.S., spaces are allocated for each horse. The car park is A. J. M. Topp, Prof. C. J. Proudman, Dr E. Singer, Dr J. Heathcock, B.Sc., M.B, Ch.B, Dr J. Sadler M.B., B.S., situated on the A329, three hundred yards from the K. Summer, J. Tipp, S. Taylor, P. MacAndrew, K. Comb Dr D. Smith M.B., B.S., Dr J.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Review and Outlook 2019 ■ BOARD & STAFF MEMBERS
    Annual Review and Outlook 2019 ■ BOARD & STAFF MEMBERS The Board • Sir Ian Good Chairman • John Gellatly Director • Mark Hunter Director • Alan Macdonald Director • John Prideaux Director Scottish Racing • Delly Innes Manager • Eleanor Boden Community Engagement & Education Manager • Stacey MacPherson Administrative & Marketing Assistant Racecourse Chief Executives • David Brown Ayr • Vivien Currie Hamilton Park • Jonathan Garratt Kelso • Bill Farnsworth Musselburgh • Hazel Peplinski Perth 2 www.scottishracing.co.uk Scotland is well represented amongst all sectors within British racing, and over ■ SCOTTISH RACING EXECUTIVES half of the senior management team are female. David Brown: Hazel Peplinski: David became Finance Director for Ayr Hazel has built an enviable reputation in Scottish Racecourse in July 2007, and was then racing holding positions that include Chief appointed Managing Director in 2012 and is a Executive, Director, Racing Manager and Clerk of member of the Large Independent Racecourse the Course at Hamilton Park, as well as further Group. Clerking roles at both Kelso and Ayr Racecourse. Earlier in her career Hazel was a Public Relations Vivien Currie: Officer for the Racecourse Association (RCA) Vivien was appointed as Chief Executive at and obtained Event Management experience Hamilton Park in June 2008. She was a Director in the golf and tennis arenas. Hazel has been a of the British Horseracing Authority from 2016 to trustee of the Injured Jockeys Fund since 2013. 2019, a former Vice Chairman of the RCA, and a member of the Development Board of the Marie Delly Innes: Curie Hospice in Glasgow. Prior to this, Vivien Delly took up her post as Manager of Scottish was Chief Executive of Livingston Football Racing in 2016, following her position as Head of Club, bringing the club out of Administration, Political Research for the Countryside Alliance and also sat on the Scottish Football League and then their Wessex Regional Director from Management Committee.
    [Show full text]
  • Animal and Sporting Paintings in the Penkhus Collection: the Very English Ambience of It All
    Animal and Sporting Paintings in the Penkhus Collection: The Very English Ambience of It All September 12 through November 6, 2016 Hillstrom Museum of Art SEE PAGE 14 Animal and Sporting Paintings in the Penkhus Collection: The Very English Ambience of It All September 12 through November 6, 2016 Opening Reception Monday, September 12, 2016, 7–9 p.m. Nobel Conference Reception Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 6–8 p.m. This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Katie Penkhus, who was an art history major at Gustavus Adolphus College, was an accomplished rider and a lover of horses who served as co-president of the Minnesota Youth Quarter Horse Association, and was a dedicated Anglophile. Hillstrom Museum of Art HILLSTROM MUSEUM OF ART 3 DIRECTOR’S NOTES he Hillstrom Museum of Art welcomes this opportunity to present fine artworks from the remarkable and impressive collection of Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Martha (Steve and Marty) T Penkhus. Animal and Sporting Paintings in the Penkhus Collection: The Very English Ambience of It All includes sixty-one works that provide detailed glimpses into the English countryside, its occupants, and their activities, from around 1800 to the present. Thirty-six different artists, mostly British, are represented, among them key sporting and animal artists such as John Frederick Herring, Sr. (1795–1865) and Harry Hall (1814–1882), and Royal Academicians James Ward (1769–1859) and Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959), the latter who served as President of the Royal Academy. Works in the exhibit feature images of racing, pets, hunting, and prized livestock including cattle and, especially, horses.
    [Show full text]
  • Priority Races 2019
    K&CAC Juniors - Priority Races 2019 Race Venue Web Link Age Group Terrain Year Month Date Day Comments http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/ Yorkshire XC Champs Lightwater Valley, Ripon events/yorkshire-county-aa-cross- U13's upwards XC 2019 January 5 Saturday Need to pre-register individually country-championships/ http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/ Pontefract Racecourse, K&CAC will register athletes (availability Northern XC Champs events/northern-athletics-cross- U13's upwards XC 2019 January 26 Saturday Pontefract confirmation required first) country-championships/ http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.u K&CAC will register athletes (availability National XC Champs Harewood House, Leeds k/the-national-cross-country- U13's upwards XC 2019 February 23 Saturday confirmation required first) championships/ http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/ K&CAC will register athletes (availability Yorkshire Road Relays Brownlee Centre, Leeds events/yorkshire-road-relay- U13's upwards Road 2019 March 30 Saturday confirmation required first) championships/ http://www.westyorkshireathletics.or West Yorkshire League T&F Cleckheaton/Wakefield U11's upwards T&F 2019 Various Various Various Need to pre-register individually g.uk/ https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races. Fell Junior Champs - Race 1 Clough Head U9's upwards Fell 2019 March 30 Saturday Entry on day php?id=6564 https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races. Fell Junior Champs - Race 2 Kettlewell U9's upwards Fell 2019 April 13 Saturday Entry on day php?id=6584 K&CAC will register athletes (availability YADAL - Meet 1 Cudworth http://www.yadal.co.uk/ U13's upwards T&F 2019 April 28 Sunday confirmation required first) https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Thesis
    This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Fast Horses The Racehorse in Health, Disease and Afterlife, 1800 - 1920 Harper, Esther Fiona Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 10. Oct. 2021 Fast Horses: The Racehorse in Health, Disease and Afterlife, 1800 – 1920 Esther Harper Ph.D. History King’s College London April 2018 1 2 Abstract Sports historians have identified the 19th century as a period of significant change in the sport of horseracing, during which it evolved from a sporting pastime of the landed gentry into an industry, and came under increased regulatory control from the Jockey Club.
    [Show full text]
  • Frommer's Scotland 8Th Edition
    Scotland 8th Edition by Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince Here’s what the critics say about Frommer’s: “Amazingly easy to use. Very portable, very complete.” —Booklist “Detailed, accurate, and easy-to-read information for all price ranges.” —Glamour Magazine “Hotel information is close to encyclopedic.” —Des Moines Sunday Register “Frommer’s Guides have a way of giving you a real feel for a place.” —Knight Ridder Newspapers About the Authors Darwin Porter has covered Scotland since the beginning of his travel-writing career as author of Frommer’s England & Scotland. Since 1982, he has been joined in his efforts by Danforth Prince, formerly of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times. Together, they’ve written numerous best-selling Frommer’s guides—notably to England, France, and Italy. Published by: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5744 Copyright © 2004 Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval sys- tem or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978/750-8400, fax 978/646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for per- mission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317/572-3447, fax 317/572-4447, E-Mail: [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • Hickstead Annual Members’ 20% Discount on Overnight Accommodation for 2018
    HMEMBIECRS’ RKECIPSROCTAL EDATAES 2D 018 Alexander House would like to offer Hickstead Annual Members’ 20% discount on overnight accommodation for 2018. Quote ‘Hickstead’ when booking. April September Wednesday 25 Taunton Racecourse 30 Aug - 2 Sept All England Jumping May Championships Tuesday 1 Great Yarmouth Racecourse Tuesday 4 Leicester Racecourse Tuesday 8 Brighton Racecourse Thursday 6 Chelmsford City Racecourse (E) Thursday 10 Worcester Racecourse Monday 10 Ageas Bowl, Hampshire CC Monday 14 Royal Windsor Racecourse Tuesday 11 Salisbury Racecourse Tuesday 15 Wincanton Racecourse Wednesday 12 Kempton Park Racecouse (Ladies Day) Friday 14 Sandown Park Racecourse Tuesday 22 Huntingdon Racecourse Saturday 29 Newmarket Racecourse Wednesday 23 Ageas Bowl, Hampshire CC Sunday 30 Epsom Downs Racecourse Thursday 24 Goodwood Racecourse Sunday 27 Fontwell Park Racecourse October June Monday 4 Leicester Racecourse Monday 1 Bath Racecourse Saturday 9 Haydock Park Racecourse Wednesday 3 Salisbury Racecourse Sunday 10 Cowdray Park Polo Club Tuesday 9 Brighton Racecourse Monday 11 Brighton Racecourse Thursday 11 Exeter Racecourse Wednesday 13 Chelmsford City Racecourse Sunday 14 Chepstow Racecourse Saturday 16 Fontwell Park Racecourse Tuesday 16 Hereford Racecourse Wed - Sun 20 - 24 The Al Shira’aa Hickstead Sunday 21 Kempton Park Racecouse Derby Meeting Saturday 27 Newbury Racecourse (Flat) Monday 25 Chepstow Racecourse Wednesday 31 Fakenham Racecourse Friday 29 Chester Racecourse July November Sunday 1 Royal Windsor Racecourse Monday 5 Plumpton
    [Show full text]
  • Unified, Mohaymen, Gormley Are Ones to Watch
    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021 TAKING STOCK: UNIFIED, PA RAIDS THAT YIELDED >SIGNIFICANT CONTRABAND' NOW TERMED AS MOHAYMEN, GORMLEY >NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE' by T.D. Thornton One month after initially stating at a Pennsylvania Horse ARE ONES TO WATCH Racing Commission (PHRC) meeting that May backstretch raids at Parx yielded a "significant amount of contraband" and "items that have no business on the backside," Tom Chuckas, the director of Thoroughbred horse racing for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, gave a Tuesday update that now describes the yield from those searches in markedly less sensationalistic terms. "In the last months, enforcement action was taken both at Penn National and at Parx," Chuckas told commissioners at the June 29 PHRC meeting during his monthly briefing. AThat enforcement action consisted ofYvehicle searches, barn searches, vet trailer searches. In addition, we did out-of-competition testing both at Penn National and at Parx, and the preliminary results from these investigative enforcement actions is very, very minor infractions. Nothing of substance." Cont. p6 Unified | Photos by Z by Sid Fernando IN TDN EUROPE TODAY I noted on Steve Byk's "At the Races" radio show last SHEIKHA HISSA TO CARRY ON AT SHADWELL Sheikha Hissa will continue her late father’s legacy with Wednesday that some stallions that enter stud for between Shadwell. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. $10,000 and $20,000 occasionally punch above their weight and find lasting success. The in-your-face examples of this are Into Mischief, Tapit and War Front, three of the best and most expensive horses at stud, but others that have fit the profile through the years include Distorted Humor, Candy Ride (Arg), Elusive Quality, Munnings and Twirling Candy.
    [Show full text]
  • March 2020 CONTENTS
    www.racecourseassociation.co.uk March 2020 updatenewsletter CONTENTS Welcome 03 Junior Jumpers 05 06 Scottish Racing Academy 07 RCA Racing & Turf Conference 09 RCA Safety Group 10 Racecourse Groundstaff Couses 10 Badges & Pass 2020 11 Racegoers Club 12 Five Minutes of Fame 14 Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff 15 GBRI 16 Racing to School 17 Racing Welfare 18 ROA 19 HBLB 20 Britbet 20 TBA 21 PRA 22 Careers in Racing 23 Watt Fences 24 Duralock 25 Racing TV PJA ProAm 27 Fornells 28 Diary Dates / Contributors / Staff 29 Contact List 09 18 20 2 | RCA Update Newsletter 2020 Back to content page WELCOMEWords by Paul Swain Update due to the pace at which official successes to date. guidance changes, please be assured Appealing to a slightly older that the RCA and the sport’s steering demographic, Scottish Racing’s group are working at all hours to support Academy has recently launched to racecourses and all stakeholders. We are much excitement within the sport. conscious of the enormous challenges In a collaborative approach with local that lay ahead. The RCA will be at the schools and colleges, the Scottish service of our member racecourses to Racing Academy will use the power ensure they have the support they need of the sport to offer academic during this time. qualifications and career development To March’s Update, and we have some training which will benefit countless wonderful features to share from the people. Delly Innes and Eleanor Boden world of racecourses. Cheltenham’s The of Scottish Racing pick up the detail in Festival™ presented by Magners was the coming pages—congratulations to another rip-roaring occasion last week both on bringing this ambitious project and many of the Junior Jumpers will to life.
    [Show full text]
  • UK TV Outside Broadcast Fibre Connected Venues
    UK TV Outside Broadcast fibre connected venues From UK venues to a North of England Arenas Middlesbrough FC Blackpool Winter Gardens Newcastle United FC worldwide audience Sheffield United FC Echo Arena Liverpool Manchester Arena Wigan Athletic FC Football and training Horse racing grounds Aintree Racecourse Barnfield (Burnley FC) Beverley Racecourse Burnley FC Carlisle Racecourse Carrington Complex Cartmel Racecourse (Man Utd FC) Catterick Racecourse Darsley Park (Newcastle FC) Chester Racecourse Etihad Complex (Man City FC) Haydock Racecourse Scotland Everton FC Market Rasen Racecourse Arenas St Johnstone FC Finch Farm (Everton FC) Pontefract Racecourse Hallam FM Academy Redcar Racecourse SEC Centre St Mirren FC (Sheff Utd FC) Thirsk Racecourse Football and Horse racing Leeds United FC Wetherby Racecourse training grounds Ayr Racecourse Leigh Sports Village York Racecourse Aberdeen FC Hamilton Racecourse Liverpool FC Celtic FC Kelso Racecourse Manchester City FC Rugby AJ Bell Stadium Dundee United FC Musselburgh Manchester United FC Leigh Sports Village Hamilton Academical Racecourse Melwood Training Ground FC Perth Racecourse (Liverpool FC) Newcastle Falcons Hibernian FC Rugby Kilmarnock FC Scotstoun Stadium Livingstone FC Motherwell FC Stadiums Rangers FC Hampden Stadium Ross County FC Murrayfield Stadium Midlands and East of England Arenas West Bromwich Albion FC Birmingham NEC Wolverhampton Coventry Ricoh Arena Wanderers FC Wales and Wolverhampton Civic Hall Horse racing Football and Cheltenham Racecourse training grounds Gloucester
    [Show full text]
  • On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing
    ^^^g£SS/^^ GIFT OF FAIRMAN ROGERS. University of Pennsylvania Annenherg Rare Book and Manuscript Library ROUS ON RACING. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/onlawspracticeOOrous ON THE LAWS AND PRACTICE HORSE RACING, ETC. ETC. THE HON^T^^^ ADMIRAL ROUS. LONDON: A. H. BAILY & Co., EOYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, COENHILL. 1866. LONDON : PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHAKING CROSS. CONTENTS. Preface xi CHAPTER I. On the State of the English Turf in 1865 , . 1 CHAPTER II. On the State of the La^^ . 9 CHAPTER III. On the Rules of Racing 17 CHAPTER IV. On Starting—Riding Races—Jockeys .... 24 CHAPTER V. On the Rules of Betting 30 CHAPTER VI. On the Sale and Purchase of Horses .... 44 On the Office and Legal Responsibility of Stewards . 49 Clerk of the Course 54 Judge 56 Starter 57 On the Management of a Stud 59 vi Contents. KACma CASES. PAGE Horses of a Minor Age qualified to enter for Plates and Stakes 65 Jockey changed in a Race ...... 65 Both Jockeys falling abreast Winning Post . 66 A Horse arriving too late for the First Heat allowed to qualify 67 Both Horses thrown—Illegal Judgment ... 67 Distinction between Plate and Sweepstakes ... 68 Difference between Nomination of a Half-bred and Thorough-bred 69 Whether a Horse winning a Sweepstakes, 23 gs. each, three subscribers, could run for a Plate for Horses which never won 50^. ..... 70 Distance measured after a Race found short . 70 Whether a Compromise was forfeited by the Horse omitting to walk over 71 Whether the Winner distancing the Field is entitled to Second Money 71 A Horse objected to as a Maiden for receiving Second Money 72 Rassela's Case—Wrong Decision ...
    [Show full text]