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Racing Welfare joins The Cambridge Roar 2018!

This year Racing Welfare has been included in the line of up four charities benefiting from the Roar 18 fundraising festival!

Along with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, Cambridge United Community Trust and East Anglian Air Ambulance; Racing Welfare are being supported with our very own Racing Dinner on Wednesday 4th July.

Tattersalls’ sales ring filled with Christmas spirit for Racing Welfare’s Annual Carol Concert

Children from the Fairstead House School Choir were joined by students from Newmarket Academy, the community choir VivaVoices and Newmarket Town Band to take part in Racing Welfare’s annual Carol Concert which raises funds for the charity’s Chaplaincy service. The sales ring was packed to the rafters with a sell-out crowd enjoying the festive evening which raised £5,000 for the charity.

Hammersley Team lead the way in ARO BTO

Peter Hammersley’s team currently head the overall yard list for the Racing Welfare sponsored Best Turned Out Championship during the 2017 Arabian Racing Organisation (ARO) season, with 14 awards.

The leading groom title is divided in to two categories, yards with 10 or more horses, with Ria Tillet (of Collington Racing) ahead in that category; whilst Jayme Plumb and Sarah Davenport are tied at the top of the table of yards with less than 10 horses. Racing Welfare is sponsoring the overall championship with a trophy to the leading yard and cash awards of £125 to the two top grooms which will be presented at the ARO Season Finale to be run at Huntingdon on September 23.

LTiR Awards for Ted Jackson and Steve McNally

On Thursday 27th July Steve McNally and Ted Jackson were presented with Lifetime in Racing Awards. Both Ted and Steve have dedicated their lives to working in the horseracing industry. Racing Welfare has been organising the presentation of Lifetime in Racing Awards since their introduction in 2002.

Sarah Monkman wins Rory MacDonald Award

Racing Welfare’s own Sarah Monkman took home the Rory MacDonald Community award, which is in just its second year, at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards 2017.

The Awards ceremony took place at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge in front of a specially invited audience from across the racing industry to celebrate the vital role of stud and stable staff in the racing industry and the care which they provide to the horses they look after.

257 Retired Racing Staff have Christmas Lunch

257 Retired racing staff around the country enjoyed a Christmas lunch with HRH The Princess Royal.

In Newmarket, Lambourn, Middleham and Malton more than 250 retired racing staff sat down at 1.00 pm on 14th December to enjoy a Christmas Lunch, organised by Racing Welfare. Racing Welfare’s President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, was in attendance at the Newmarket event, giving a speech before the meal highlighting the work that the charity does all year round in its campaign to reduce social isolation and loneliness amongst racing’s retired people.