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With over five million people visiting British racecourses each year and a large television audience, horseracing is the nation’s second largest spectator sport. For over 100,000 people with a variety of skills, it is also an industry in which they earn their living.
The horseracing and Thoroughbred breeding industries are known collectively as the racing industry. Bookmakers and caterers apart, most businesses are small but taken together the industry is among the ten largest in the country. While significant numbers of people work directly with horses, even more, with a very wide range of skills, work to support racing.
The industry is complex, highly professional and multi-skilled with all its component parts interdependent. Race days are the culmination of years of preparation and co-operation between key professionals. Like any industry, racing is only as good as the people who work in it. For the well motivated, able and committed, many of whom have a deep love of the horse, racing provides an excellent career and boundless opportunities.
Racing is governed by the British Horseracing Board (BHB) and regulated by The Jockey Club. The constituent parts of the industry have elected trade bodies represented on an Industry Committee which reports its views to the British Horseracing Board who then decide policy. Jockey Club regulation is aimed at ensuring that British racing operates under the highest standards of integrity and is entirely fair and honest. The administration of racing is carried out by Weatherbys.
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