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April-2019-FINAL.Pdf www.racecourseassociation.co.uk April 2019 updatenewsletter CONTENTS Welcome 03 Raceday Experience Group 06 08 Play:Live 08 Did You Know ... 09 Racecourse Groundstaff Courses 09 On Track 10 Badges & Pass 2019 12 Racegoers Club 12 Five Minutes of Fame 15 BHA 16 Horse Welfare Board 17 Bangor-on-Dee 18 Chester 19 Southwell 20 GBRI 21 Racing to School 22 Racing Together 23 Racing Foundation 24 HBLB 25 RaceTech 26 MBA 27 Careers in Racing 28 Women in Racing 29 TBA 31 Watt Fences 32 Duralock 33 Overview of British Racing 34 18 Job Board 35 Diary Dates / Contributors / Staff 38 Contact List 23 24 2 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page WELCOMEWords by Paul Swain (twice) both joined her in the winner’s and I look forward to next month’s circle to take the tally of women-ridden edition where we will be able to recap winners to four. If this is to be the World the fine work of 2019. Cup of jumps racing, there can be few, if We have a packed edition of Update any, other sports where at the pinnacle this month, with the latest from our men and women are able to compete Raceday Experience Group, a feature on on level terms. the industry’s new campaign Be Horse Equine welfare has been the subject Aware, news of two integral industry of significant debate in recent weeks. appointments with the BHA’s and I have little more to add to the already Equine Welfare Group’s new chairmen crowded discussion other than to echo plus an interview with Emma White, the words of Grand National winning Sedgefield Racecourse’s Executive trainer Lucinda Russell who stated in a Director. recent interview with the Racing Post “we mustn’t lose sight of the fact we don’t have a welfare issue in the yards or in the way we prepare horses and take them racing, but what we do have is an issue in the way we present ourselves Off the back of two wonderful to the public.” There is a great deal of Festivals at Cheltenham and Aintree work ongoing with the Horse Comes our sport has much to be proud of. First campaign which the RCA and our member racecourses will do all we can I’m not ashamed to say that at both of to promote. the aforementioned Festivals a tear was brought to my eye (and not because On the theme of pride, British Racing I’d just lost in the RCA’s annual tipping is gearing up to the 9th May where we competition). will participate in the Racing Together Community Day, the sport’s national day Tiger Roll’s stunning victory in the of volunteering. Thanks to the fantastic Randox Health Grand National work of Racing Together, this has catapulted him to legendary status become a feature in the calendar across alongside Red Rum as only the fourth the sport with racecourses leading the horse to win back to back Nationals. way in giving back to their communities. Update Since the race it’s clear the public have March’s included a feature on Bryony Frost made front page news with Festival success taken Tiger to heart with some bookies the Racing Together Community Day even quoting odds for him to be named Sports Personality of the Year! The scenes that accompanied Paisley Park’s romping success in the Stayers’ Hurdle and the reaction of trainer Emma Lavelle and owner Andrew Gemmell will last long in the memory. On the same day, who could forget Frodon and Bryony Frost battling back up the hill to claim the Ryanair Chase and Bryony’s now famous post-race interview in which she declared that it was her ‘best friend’ Frodon who had inspired them to victory. Bryony’s success as the first woman to win a grade one contest at The Festival set the tone for others during the week. Tiger Roll and Davy Russell emulate the legendary feat of Red Rum, Lizzie Kelly and Rachael Blackmore picture courtesy of Aintree Racecourse 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 the RCA, Raceday Experience Group, Play:Live, On Track and the Racegoers Club. 5 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page RACEDAY EXPERIENCE GROUP SIX THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM REG... Attendees Paul Swain (Chair) Fraser Garrity (Chelmsford City) Kate McKee (Beverley) David Armstrong (RCA—Items 1-4) Richard Hammill (Pontefract) Ashley Moon (Hamilton Park) Showcase is heading to Scotland Francesca Beeching (Ascot) Liam Johnson (Huntingdon) Max Roberts (Royal Windsor) The 10th RCA Showcase & Awards is heading to Hamilton Park Racecourse in Scotland. Our reigning Caroline Davies (RCA—Items 8-12) Matthew Jones (RCA) Toby Shaw (GBR) champions are delighted to be hosting the 2019 rendition of the awards and are looking forward to showing the Alex Eade (Goodwood) Sarah King (Newbury) Joanna Wales (Ascot) 1. industry what Scottish Racing has to offer on Thursday 14th November. David Fraser (Harrison:Fraser) Penny Maltby-Payne (GBR) Sophie Yates (Harrison:Fraser) Good Ideas Roundtable This year’s Good Ideas Roundtable sessions are being based Too hot to Handel around the four strands of the Have a Great Day at the Races As the City of Culture, it should come as no surprise that Hull is leading the way in the public transport / strategy. In this meeting the Group shared ideas and initiatives classical music fusion. TransPennie Express (TPE) have started to play classical music at their Hull Paragon Great Company 2. hub and at Cleethorpes railway stations. The move has seen complaints of anti-social behaviour fall by 75% at on the theme of discussing anti-social behaviour, community projects and sustainability drives. Cleethorpes, with a TPE spokesperson saying that youths at the station each night had fallen from 20-25 to just two or three. • Commissioning a local artist to create artwork for the racecourse from old tickets • Hidden disability lanyards for those that might need extra assistance The (Racing) Future is in our hands • Year of the Hero to celebrate local heroes and heroines in GBR’s Toby Shaw presented the latest update from the collective industry initiative Racing Futures. The work the community has engaged with racing’s leaders and racing staff to come up with a shared vision for the future of the sport. We were delighted to be given the opportunity to feed into a survey to help shape the direction of Racing • Weekly walking groups on the racecourse to engage with 3. Futures. the local community reduce screen time • A squad of grannies distributing tea & toast after Ladies Day—you wouldn’t misbehave in front of a granny! • Top up taps across Scotland to encourage people to carry a reusable bottle and refill on the go. Have a drink, save a penguin Single Use Plastic is quickly becoming a taboo phrase and there is lots going on across Britain’s racecourses to try and improve the situation, from bespoke artwork at Pontefract to the #SaveThePenguins campaign 4. at Royal Windsor. The Group shared examples of best practice from the industry and discussed potential initiatives for the future. We’re off to Windsor The next REG meeting will take place at Royal Windsor racecourse on Monday 8th July where the Group will get a first-hand experience of the Showcase Award-winning Monday Night racing. The meeting will be open not 5. only to our Group, but to local racecourses too—we will be in touch with invitations! Your community needs you! The Racing Together Community Day, British Racing’s national day of volunteering, takes place on Thursday 9th May. The day provides all businesses within the sport with the perfect opportunity to develop new 6. community partnerships and deliver social outcomes within the local community. 6 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page 7 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page PLAY:LIVE Customers are demanding the ability to feed their competitive souls, but who does it best? The Raceday Experience Group’s latest it is a broad and diverse market with across a range of demographics. study tour, Play:Live, was all about innovation being the buzzword. During Play:Live, we took a number of competitive socialising, a trend that is Why is it so popular? In the ever- racecourses on a whistle-stop tour of sweeping the nation quicker than you increasing digital world, customers London’s east end to checkout some of can say junkyard golf. are reverting back to good old the best venues around at the moment. Competitive socialising has grown fashioned face to face interaction and Take a look in your nearest town/city fantastically as part of the experience analogue experiences. Competitive centre—we guarantee a competitive revolution taking over the leisure sector. socialising covers various core trends socialising venue will be open near you! Defined as any venue or occasion that (gamification, escape, nostalgia, brings people together to play a game, instagrammability (sic)) and works What: Junkyard Golf What: Flight Club Where: Nationwide, including Where: London, Manchester, Chicago London, Liverpool, Belfast & Oxford A giant darts extravaganza mixing A crazy golf phenomenon with loud cutting edge technology with an music, UV neon lights and a random age-old pub game. The technology selection of obstacles to navigate sees cameras capture the exact flight around. Four bars serve cocktails of each dart along with the facial to golfers who are encouraged to expression of the player. snap as many Instagram shots (free marketing) as possible alongside an Groups can book private oches with ever-changing array of pop-up street full F&B service whilst others can sit food outlets.
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