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October-2019-FINAL.Pdf www.racecourseassociation.co.uk October 2019 updatenewsletter CONTENTS Welcome 03 Racecourse Groundstaff Awards 06 08 Showcase & Awards 08 Raceday Experience Forum 09 Save The Date 11 Badges & Pass 2019 12 Racegoers Club 13 Five Minutes of Fame 15 GBRI 16 Racing to School 17 Racing Together 18 Racing Foundation 19 RaceTech 20 Racehorse Owners Association 21 TBA 22 Careers in Racing 23 Duralock 25 TRIC 26 Overview of British Racing 27 Diary Dates / Contributors / Staff 28 Contact List 17 20 23 Front Cover: Image Logician courtesy of Great British Racing International 2 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page WELCOMEWords by Paul Swain a variety of subjects as well as have a Award. Market Rasen’s Steve Bakin was cup of tea and catch up with colleagues presented with the prestigious Neil from across the sport. With special Wyatt Lifetime Achievement Award in outside guests confirmed for both respect of an amazing career spanning sessions, I’d recommend booking your almost 50 years. place and being part of what promises This months’ Update is also a to be a cracking session. celebratory edition for the Racegoers On a more specific topic, the Marketing Club, with two-year old filly Spirit of the Services bandwagon will be making Sky bolting up at the second time of regional pitstops around Great Britain asking at Nottingham. SOTS, as she’s this month. The RCA, GBR and Two affectionately known, has taken her Circles will be visiting Chelmsford, time to be racecourse-ready but has Salisbury, Perth, Catterick and proved that it has been worth every London to deliver the latest Marketing second of the wait by rewarding owners Services workshop to all participating with a valuable +10 bonus win. You can racecourses. Again, with guest speakers read all about it on page 13, as well as confirmed for each session, these even more Group 1 success for our workshops are a fantastic opportunity cover star Frankie Detorri when winning We look forward to seeing you soon! to share an intensive best practice the William Hill St Leger aboard Logician forum on marketing alongside (page 16). I use last month’s closing sentence as contemporaries. an opener here given the RCA team will Also included is Lucy Gurney's be racking up the miles in October with Our congratulations go to the winners reflections on a year at the helm of a series of events and workshops where of the Racecourse Groundstaff Awards Racing Together, an update on the latest we hope to meet as many racecourse who were announced last week. York, initiatives from RaceTech and a sit down representatives as possible. Kelso and Lingfield Park Racecourses with the Jockey Club’s Jack Parkinson all claimed top honours in the flat, who, amongst other things, is perhaps The October Members’ Fora take place jump and dual purpose categories the only Clerk of the Course who’s both on 22nd and 23rd at Newbury and York respectively, whilst the Perth team a welsh speaker AND digeridoo player. respectively. These sessions are a great were honoured with the Special Merit The mind boggles… way to hear the latest from the RCA on Spirits are sky high at Nottingham after SOTS records first victory 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 Groudstaff Winners, Showcase, Raceday Experience Forum and the Racegoers Club. 5 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page RACECOURSE GROUNDSTAFF WHAT THEY SAID... AWARDS 2019 WINNERS Jonathan Garratt, Managing Director of Kelso Racecourse said “The Groundstaff are an ANNOUNCED excellent team, they are always Winners: Runners Up: Special Merit - Perth open to trying something new and, above all, they are dedicated to presenting the track in the Flat - York Flat – Goodwood Neil Wyatt Lifetime best possible condition for our Jump - Kelso Jump – Ludlow and Achievement - Steve participants.” Dual - Lingfield Park Warwick Bakin Kelso Racecourse Groundstaff Team Dual – Carlisle The Racecourse Association (RCA) is very important for the safety of all the The winning racecourses all showed delighted to announce the winners of sport’s participants and they deserve tremendous commitment to improve George Hill, Clerk of the Course, the Racecourse Groundstaff Awards for our thanks.” Dale Gibson, PJA Executive their racing surfaces, parade rings, Lingfield Park said, “we are 2019. Director, said “racing on a consistent, unsaddling area and the counited delighted to receive this award well maintained and safe surface professional development (CPD) of the Sponsored by Pitchcare, Watt Fences and it is brilliant for the team to remains vitally important to all Jockeys.” groundstaff team. Goodwood, Carlisle, and Fornells, the award winners were Ludlow and Warwick racecourses, get the recognition for their hard decided by an industry panel made up of John Richards, Operations Director of runners up in the Flat, Dual Purpose work throughout the year.” representatives from the Professional sponsors Pitchcare, added “on behalf and Joint jump categories respectively, Jockeys Association (PJA), British of the sponsors, I would like to say how also impressed the judging panel with Horseracing Authority (BHA) and delighted we are to be able to recognise their forward-thinking approaches to National Trainers Federation (NTF). the outstanding contribution of Steve equine welfare, turf management and Bakin. I don’t think we have ever received The winning teams are deemed to have the further training of their groundstaff Lingfield Park Racecourse Groundstaff Team so many supporting references for a demonstrated the highest levels of teams by attending seminars and nominee.” commitment, innovation and excellence gaining formal turf management and across the year to racecourse In addition to this, two further awards first aid qualifications. groundsmanship and turf husbandry. were given; the Merit Award to Perth York, Kelso and Lingfield Park Racecourse, in recognition of the William Derby, Chief The sponsors and judges highly Racecourses will all be in the running exceptional efforts to save a weather commended the commitment and to be crowned the 2019 Racecourse Executive and Clerk of the threatened fixture in August and innovation these tracks have shown Groundstaff Champion, where the Course at York Racecourse, also for the assistance they gave to throughout the year and their tireless announcement will be made at the Musselburgh Racecourse early in the said “the racing surface is work to enhance the quality and safety tenth annual RCA Showcase Awards season, and the Neil Wyatt Lifetime our most important asset, of the racing surfaces and other areas of held at Hamilton Park Racecourse on Achievement Award which went the way the course. George Noad, representing Thursday 14th November 2019. the stage on which the stars of Market Rasen Racecourse’s Steve the NTF, said “the hard work undertaken of our show perform.” Bakin to celebrate his fantastic 44 year by Groundstaff throughout the year is career. York Racecourse Groundstaff Team Hazel Peplinski, Chief Executive, Perth Racecourse said “2019 has been a very difficult year for our track team and I am Steve Bakin added “I am grateful to them for how they grateful to the judges for have addressed each and every such a personal recognition challenge which has been a and I leave Market Rasen monumental team effort of Racecourse in good hands.” perseverance.” Perth Racecourse Groundstaff Team 6 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page 7 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page A RECORD BREAKING YEAR FOR SHOWCASE & AWARDS! Celebrations for team Hamilton Park, our reigning Showcase & Award Champions After weeks of hard work by racecourse “The evening awards are set to be just of the customer experience. The team teams across Britain all of the as exciting with record submissions at Hamilton Park Racecourse and I submissions for the RCA’s 2019 setting us up for one of the most cannot wait to welcome the industry to Showcase & Awards 2019 are now competitive years to date. The judging Scotland on 14th November.” in. We’re pleased to report that it is day is just around the corner and there Make sure you don’t miss out on what officially a record breaking year with a is no doubt that some difficult decisions is set to be a showstopping event by grand total of 88 entries! will have to be made. Nevertheless, we booking your place at the Showcase & have the best team for the job with our Fantastic support from the racecourses Awards now! expert judging panel covering all aspects has led to bumper entries across the categories with the most popular proving to be Food & Beverage with thirteen submissions, highlighting the amount of innovative work being done in this sector. Also popular was the brand new Diversity & Inclusion award which aims to celebrate initiatives which open the sport up to all, and inspire the whole industry to continue developing in this important area. Paul Swain, Brand & Experience Manager at the RCA, said, “It is brilliant to see the racecourses continue to show their support towards our Showcase & Awards. This year’s event at Hamilton Park Racecourse is set to be a cracker with a seminar programme packed with best practice from the sport and leisure industry, along with plenty of surprise and delight along the way. Operational Excellence winners Royal Windsor at last year’s Showcase & Awards 8 | RCA Update Newsletter 2019 Back to content page HAVE A GREAT DAY AT SIX THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THE RACES FROM SEPTEMBER’S RACEDAY EXPERIENCE FORUM Have a Great Day at the Races—the Have a Great Day at the Races areas of study we’ve curated for has Showcase & Awards 2019 RCA’s strategy for Raceday Experience racecourses.
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