Salisbury Racecourse - Sunday 13th June

THE BYERLEY STUD RACING EXCELLENCE APPRENTICE SERIES AT SALISBURY The five race Racing Excellence Apprentice Series at Salisbury is generously sponsored by Byerley Stud. It is specifically designed to assist the education and training of new and inexperienced jockeys.

The first race took place on Thursday 13th May and was won by Elinor Jones on the Stuart Kittow trained Newton Jack.

A points system operates throughout the Series and is allocated as follows: 1st – 5 points; 2nd – 3 points; 3rd – 2 points; 4th – 1 point.

Additional points are awarded by the jockeys’ coach for presentation, professionalism, course familiarisation walk and riding ability.

At the end of the Series the top three riders in the Series will receive prizes as follows, kindly provided by Byerley Stud.

1ST - £1500 2ND - £1000 3RD - £500 The remaining races will take place on 11th July, 11th August and 2nd September.

The current scores are as follows: Elinor Jones...........................................................................11 Stephen Mooney................................................................7 Mollie Phillips........................................................................7 Bradley Harris........................................................................6 Oisin McSweeney...............................................................6 Jonny Peate............................................................................6 Liam Browne .........................................................................5 Rose Dawes ............................................................................5 Alex Jary....................................................................................5 Owen Lewis ............................................................................5 Hannah Fraser......................................................................5 Frederick Larson .................................................................5 Racing Excellence runs alongside the Jockey Coaching Programme (JCP) and is the industry accreditation for all apprentice and conditional races which run under hands and heels or training race conditions. Initially set up

by The British Racing School as ‘Support for Young Jockeys’ in 2006, the BHA rebranded the scheme in 2010 as ‘Racing Excellence’. In February 2014 The British Racing School took over the management of Racing Excellence and The JCP. The latter gives all Apprentices and Conditionals the opportunity to have a coach. All coaches who are all ex Jockeys can be on hand to help with fitness, riding technique, nutrition and race reviews. A coach will attend every Racing Excellence race to conduct the pre-race course walk and then will also debrief afterwards.