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5th September 2011

Latest BHEST Newsletter

To keep you up to date with the activities of the British Horseracing Education and Standards Trust’s Racing to School programme read the Summer edition of the Racing to School newsletter. Racing to School is well on the way to reaching its target of supporting the learning of 10,000 children and young people this year and introducing them to racing through its education programme. For latest BHEST Newsletter click here

 

27th June 2011

Sophie Woolf wins TBA/New England Annual Stud Staff Award

Winner of the September Stud Staff Award 2010, Sophie Woolf was judged overall winner for 2010 and received her Award at the TBA Annual Awards Dinner on 27th June 2011.

 

28th February 2011

Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards

Thanks to the generosity of Godolphin, these Awards are now a firm fixture in the industry calendar, and rightly so as they celebrate the staff who are the backbone of the industry. For that reason, the Awards lunch is always an enjoyable event, and this year was no exception. An added bonus was the presence of Godolphin’s number one jockey,

Frankie Dettori, who paid tribute to ‘those who put in so much behind the scenes’. This year’s stud staff category was once again hotly contested and for the judges it must have been a near impossible task to select one out of the three deserving nominees. Graham Paxton, employed by Darley Stud Management Co Ltd at Rutland Stud, was the ultimate choice, with Douglas Ventress (Plantation Stud) and Sandra Morton (Folly Farm Stud) as runners-up.

At the Awards lunch on Monday, all the nominees expressed their gratitude to Godolphin, and to the BHA for their organisation of the event, and the sympathetic handling of the nominees which made it the experience of a lifetime.

Our congratulations go to all three, and to the other nominees who did not make the short list this time. Their contribution to the industry is gratefully acknowledged as crucial to ensuring that stud farms in the UK continue to operate to the highest standards of welfare while producing the racehorses of the future.

Graham Paxton is pictured above, and further photos of the award winners can be found in the TBA Galleries section.

For more information on the Awards, the introductory video and footage of the ceremony, click here.