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08 November 2024

Go Racing in Yorkshire named as Racing Together Community Award winners

It was a night of celebration for Yorkshire Racing at the RCA Showcase and Awards on Thursday evening, with the courses picking up seven of the 13 awards on offer.

Around 230 guests attended the sold-out ceremony held at Edinburgh’s Signet Library on behalf of 2023 Champions Musselburgh with hosts Rishi Persad and world record-holding rower Taylor Winyard leading the celebration of the best of British racecourses in 2024.

Go Racing In Yorkshire’s year-long groundbreaking bowel cancer awareness and screening programme saw each of the nine courses host their local NHS Trust to promote the benefits of the bowel cancer screening programme, a national campaign that aims to increase the uptake of the home testing kits, ensuring more people aged between 50 and 74 are diagnosed at the earliest stage, when they are nine times more likely to survive.

L-R: host Rishi Persad, Racing Together’s John Baker, Charlotte Russell and rower Taylor Winyard

Go Racing In Yorkshire’s General Manager, Charlotte Russell said: “We are absolutely privileged to win this award. The contenders were fantastic and there are some wonderful initiatives in racing at the moment, working with the community. There is big synergy between our weekday racegoers and the bowel cancer screening demographic, so it was natural partnership.”

The first event was held at Catterick Racecourse in January, which included the running of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Saves Lives Novices’ Hurdle.

By winning this award, the Go Racing In Yorkshire team will now work with the RCA and Racing Together to produce a video summary of their winning initiative and will be a guest speaker at the Racing Together Industry Day, being held at Nottingham Racecourse on February 6th.

In addition to York Racecourse being named overall RCA Champions, Ripon Racecourse claimed the Raceday Award for the Gold Medal Family Day; the Pontefract Racecourse team continued their series of Showcase successes by winning the Diversity & Inclusion Award and Beverley Racecourse’s collaboration with Longcroft High School saw the East Yorkshire track honoured with the Non-Raceday Event Award.

Read more about these and all the other winners on the Racecourse Association website.