THE SHOWCASE 21-22 OCTOBER 2022
“We have made tremendous strides to minimise our carbon footprint”
the environment, day one of The Showcase this season will feature its first-ever raceday dedicated to showcasing sustainability at our venue and in our sport, demonstrating to racegoers what is already being done and how they can help. Ian Renton, The Jockey Club’s Managing Director for Cheltenham and the West Region, said: “We have made tremendous strides in recent years to minimise our carbon footprint and to recycle as much as possible. “At The Showcase, racegoers will be able to find out more about all of the steps we are taking to further reduce our impact on the environment and the efforts they can make to help us facilitate that. “With The Showcase kicking off our new season, there is no better time for all of us the take stock and make sure we are all doing everything we can to improve the environment.”
Novices’ Chase and went on to land the Grade Two From The Horse’s Mouth Podcast Novices’ contest at The November Meeting. Guard Your Dreams, trained locally by Nigel Twiston-Davies, took the Abu Dhabi Digital Exchange Handicap Hurdle and won the Grade Two Unibet International Hurdle in December. This year’s Showcase meeting will also highlight The Jockey Club’s dedication to environmental sustainability. Having committed itself to sending no waste to landfill by 2020, this target was achieved in 2018 – two years ahead of schedule – and The Jockey Club continues to maximise efforts to recycle as much as possible. At Cheltenham itself, solar panels were installed in 2015. Sustainability is, naturally, an area of focus that can never be ‘completed’ and there is still much work to be done. To highlight the challenges ahead and The Jockey Club’s ongoing commitment to
Grade Three Paddy Power Gold Cup at The November Meeting, while last season it was the Grade Three Racing Post Gold Cup at The International in December and the Grade Three Craft Irish Whiskey Co. Plate Handicap Chase at The Festival. Evan Williams knows better than anyone Coole Cody’s love of Cheltenham, and after the horse’s Festival success, he said: “He is 11 years of age and he has got so many miles on the clock, but he will sit back and keep fighting all the way. He is a remarkable horse. This track should be all wrong for him as he jumps right-handed. He is not a particularly brilliant jumper, but this is a tough place for tough horses.” Winners at The Showcase last season who graduated to win at Graded level at Cheltenham included the Dan Skelton-trained Third Time Lucki, who was successful in the squareintheair.com
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