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Gerald Leigh Memorial Lectures 2025

ISSUE 90 – JULY-SEPTEMER 2025

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Recruiting new talent - supporting workforce development in the industry to attract and retain a new generation of professionals
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The principles of genetic research and its impact on the Thoroughbred racing world
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How Does the Regulatory Environment for Pool Betting Impact on the Financial Health of Horseracing Around the World?
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Gerald Leigh Lectures 2024 - Optimising Youngstock Growth and Development
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What we learnt at the first carbon-neutral horseracing industry conference
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Who should be dictating the Rules of Racing - the racing industry or government?
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Dangers of inbreeding and the necessity to preserve sire lines in the thoroughbred breed
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Shared ownership
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A new mission for Criquette Head
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What we learnt at the Horseracing Industry Conference
Chantilly Racing
Vive La France - Why is France becoming the fashionable place to train?
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A handicap or a benefit? Is the European handicapping system fit for purpose?
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Trainers and the importance of communicating with owners
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Bureaucracy in training - how trainers are coping with the added paperwork they now need to produce for racing authorities
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Sales protocols across Europe this autumn - global bloodstock calendar thrown into disarray by Covid 19 - how auction houses have embraced changes to their business practices
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Price money & the Covid impact - will prize money ever return to pre-COVID-19 levels? - Lissa Oliver looks into the various pots of prize money and the racing authorities’ recovery plans
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Coronavirus shutdown - the effects on training regimes, racing staff wellbeing and how the racing industry adapts to change
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Should we fear or embrace continuing professional development?
LONGCHAMP, FRANCE - October 06, 2018: View at the renovated Grandstand of the Longchamp race track, now officially called ParisLongchamp, which reopened in April 2018
Staying power - is the French staying race division running out of steam?
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Finding Owners
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2019 Lycetts Team Champion Awards
ETF AGM 2018
ETF AGM 2018
Brexit update planning - looking to the Swiss model
Brexit update planning - looking to the Swiss model
Understanding Trainers’ mental health
Understanding Trainers’ mental health
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Are the elite sales horses being prepared for their big day in the ring or a career on the track?
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Brexit - How high are the stakes?
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Lissa Oliver's Spring Sales Analysis
Lycetts Team Champion Award
Lycetts Team Champion Award
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The true cost of training
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Staff Focus: Work experience and the pathways into racehorse care
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Staff Pensions - Safeguarding the future
The Alex Scott Memorial Scholarship Winners of 2015 - in their own words
The UK’s first Equine Flu Awareness Month (EFAM) set for April
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Irish Champions Weekends
Do racetrack incentives lead the way to a drug-free future?
Do racetrack incentives lead the way to a drug-free future?
David Crosse - View from the saddle
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David Crosse - View from the Saddle
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European Trainers Federation AGM 2013
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Owner Trainer agreements across Europe
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VAT - are trainers being financially squeezed?
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Racing in Central Europe: Hoping for another Overdose
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Food for thought in Istanbul - The Asian Racing Conference
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Riding fees and percentages – who gets what across Europe?
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Is the Grass Greener? Investigating State Incentive Programs
Are racecourses selling their customers?
Eco-trainers - turning a profit from manure
Global Superbet - Can it take horseracing to a bigger stage?
Who is Controlling Racing's TV Signals?
Should sales catalogues include information on medication?
Should sales catalogues include information on medication - it's a case of black and white!
The growing influence of South Africa in the world Pari-mutuel industry
The Asian Racing Conference – from a trainer’s perspective
The Asian Racing Conference – from a trainer’s perspective
Who is Controlling Racing's TV signals?
The future of dispute resolution - alternatives to the usual legal process
New European legislation could prove costly for racehorse transporters
Are the six newly upgraded Group One races for fillies and mares in Europe worthy of their status?
The European Horserace Scientific Liaison Committee
Trainer’s Comment - Christian von der Recke