Organisations
A
Arena Leisure
Course
owners, now branching out significantly into media and commercial rights and
becoming a major player in British racing
B
BBOA
British
Betting Office Association
British Horseracing
Board
Full information including 1999 Fixture List and search
facility on the BHB Trainers' Directory as well as useful material on many
aspects of British racing. Fussy "front page" loading options initially detract
from an otherwise good site
C D E F
Federation of Bloodstock
Agents (FBA)
Andrew Mead, Secretary of the FBA, hosts the
Federation's homepage on the race-horses.com site. There is also a membership listing available here.
G H
HEROS (Homing Ex-Racehorses Organisation Scheme) Charity
HEROS (Homing Ex-Racehorses Organisation Scheme) is a charity dedicated to ensuring former racehorses have a future when their racing days are over. HEROS re-trains these former athletes, ensuring they have a long, happy and useful life when they move on to pastures new.
I
Irish Horseracing Authority
(IRE)
Irish Turf Club
(IRE)
Ruling body of Irish Racing
J
The Jockey Club
Now much-improved site, with full details
of currently suspended jockeys, rules and regulations, health and safety, and
recent Press Releases
Jockey Club
Estates
Bright guide to the Jockey
Club subsidiary, controlling Estate gallops, and offering the
old Jockey Club HQ rooms at Newmarket for hire
The Jockeys Association
A
shell - currently "being redeveloped"
The Jockeys Employment & Training Scheme
(JETS)
Aims to help jockeys achieve a more secure future through
career development advice and retraining grants
KL
The (Horserace Betting) Levy
Board
Lumpen, unfriendly and unappealing site
MN
National
Trainers Federation
Useful search
engine provides details, names, addresses and contact numbers for licence
holders nationwide. Also introductory material and reference info.
Northern Racing
College
Doncaster, offers training for young people keen to work in
the Racing business as jockeys or stable staff
OQQ
R
The Racecourse
Association
Fixture lists, maps
and plenty of good general information on the 59 UK racecourses and the RCA
itself
Racehorse Owners Association
Smart and clear guide to racehorse owning in
UK, from the major representative pressure group. Model deisgn and useful
content, including neat racecourse information
RaceTech (Racecourse
Technical Services)
Full
information on latest technical news, starting stalls, SIS television coverage,
photofinish cameras, video sales - with some nice Real Audio snippets.
Enjoyably done
ST
Totalisator Board ("The
Tote")
Uncluttered information site for UK's pool betting
organisation
The Tote (IRE)
Irish
official pool betting
UVW
Weatherbys
User-friendly guide to the nerve centre for race and registration organisation
for British racing. For a direct link to the Marketing section see
Books
and Prints
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