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Careers In Racing (also known simply as CIR) is an industry-owned brand managed by the Industry Recruitment & Training department of the British Horseracing Authority. [4] Careers In Racing acts as the recruitment and training portal for horse racing and thoroughbred breeding in Great Britain .
Career wins: 1,892 [1] Major racing wins; British Classic Races: 2000 Guineas Stakes (2004) St Leger Stakes (1999) 1000 Guineas Stakes (1995, 2000, 2009) Oaks Stakes (2005) Other major races: British Champions Sprint Stakes (1997, 2007, 2009) British Champions Fillies' and Mares' Stakes (2003) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1994, 2001) Dewhurst ...
British horse racing is served by a daily, national newspaper, the Racing Post, founded in 1986. This publication carries industry news, race cards for all British and Irish race meetings, tipping columns and betting information, as well as smaller sections on greyhound racing and general sport.
David Victor Dick (8 March 1924 – 15 February 2001) was a British jockey who competed at the Grand National from 1951 to 1965, winning the race in 1956 on E.S.B. He was the only jockey ever to win both races of the Lincoln-Grand National Spring Double [1] and he holds the record, nine times, for the number of clear rounds on a notoriously difficult Aintree course.
Richard Thomas Pitman (born 21 January 1943) is a retired British jump jockey who rode 427 winners in his career, including Lanzarote in the 1974 Champion Hurdle.He won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse twice, the Whitbread Gold Cup once and the Hennessy Gold Cup once.
It owns 15 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree, Cheltenham, Epsom Downs and both the Rowley Mile and July Course in Newmarket, amongst other horse racing assets such as the National Stud, and the property and land management company, Jockey Club Estates. The registered charity Racing Welfare is also a company limited by guarantee ...
Josephine Gordon (born 16 May 1993) [1] is a British jockey who competes in Flat racing. In 2016 Gordon won the British flat racing Champion Apprentice title, becoming only the third female jockey to win that title after Hayley Turner and Amy Ryan. Gordon began her association with horses at her mother's livery stable but her early jockey ...
Frederick Sidney Fox (1888–12 December 1945), referred to in his retirement as "The Mayor of Wantage" [1] was a British horse racing jockey.He was a British Classic winner in his early twenties, but it was not until the last quarter of his thirty-year career that he had his greatest successes.