The British Racing School; What is it all about?

The British Racing School was established in 1983. It is owned by a charitable trust and therefore any income generated is reinvested back into the school. The original aim of the school was to provide purpose built facilities to promote and encourage young people who had the potential to ride as professional jockeys. But now the school has expanded providing a whole range of different courses and training.

It costs about 3 million a year to run the school and the majority of income, to meet the running costs, comes from Government funding via the Skills Funding Agency and the Education Funding Agency. As well as this this it is topped up with industry funding based on the number of trainees they place in jobs.

The school features many world class training facilities such as a two and a half furlong Activtrack gallop, an Indoor school and classrooms with state of the art technology and many others. As well as this they have a dedicated and well qualified staff and an array of ex racehorses with their own personality and purpose.

The British Racing school is opening its doors again this year for the Newmarket Open Weekend. It is open on the Saturday the 16^th of September from 9am to 4pm. In addition, there are many other things going on this weekend that you can enjoy such as the NOW food & drink festival, a tour round the National Heritage Centre museum and National Stud tours and many other fun things for you avid racing fans.

Have a look to see what they do..