Horse Racing Ireland has created a new ‘Go Racing Student Society’ to tap into interest among third level students in the sport of racing and what goes into it behind the scenes.
Racing has always crossed over and back between being seen as a sport and an industry and is a major employer in Ireland with as many as 14,000 jobs, mainly in rural areas directly attributable to it.
The new Society is free to join and is open to students at any third level institution. It will support events through the year including discounted or free access to selected race meetings and exclusive behind the scenes tours of racing yards, breeding studs and racecourses.
The Society will also give a taste of racehorse ownership, at no cost to members though having a share in the Gordon Elliot Racing Club that currently has four horses in training.
Leading jockey Bryan Cooper was Eoin hand at yesterday’s launch where he was joined at Elliot’s stables by students from UCD, DIT and UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
“The ‘Go Racing Student Society’ is an excellent opportunity for students to meet like-minded people and enjoy exclusive events,” said Horse Racing Ireland’s’s Marketing & Events Executive, Kate O’Sullivan.
Students interested in signing up to the society, even if only to assist their studies in physics, agricultural science, business or mathematics, can do so online here.
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