Tattersalls
Founded in 1766, Tattersalls is the oldest bloodstock auctioneers in the world and the largest in Europe. Today, Tattersalls offers 12,000 horses each year at 30 sales across England and Ireland.
The 15 sales that Tattersalls holds each year at their Newmarket headquarters include market leaders in every category. The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is Europe’ s premier yearling sale and is unrivalled as a source of Group 1 winners whilst the Tattersalls December Sale, offering breeding stock, foals, and yearlings, is widely regarded as the world’ s most international thoroughbred sale and where Group 1 winner Marsha sold for a European record 6,000,000 guineas.
The Racing Post
The Racing Post is a daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting newspaper. It was founded in April 1986 by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum as a rival to the Sporting Life. It includes information on form of horses in meetings across the country, the going of the courses, age of horses, handicap ratings and other information relevant to the race in question.
Weatherbys
Weatherbys has been in business since 1770. For the majority of its history it was a family partnership, but in 1994 it became a Limited Company. It remains a private company, owned by the Weatherby family. Various companies have been created to handle the different aspects of the diverse business. At the end of 2005 a rationalisation was undertaken, and there are now 3 principal companies. Weatherbys Thoroughbred Ltd is responsible for Racing work under Contract to the British Horseracing Authority. Through its two subsidiaries, Weatherbys GSB and Weatherbys Ireland GSB, it is also responsible for the Thoroughbred Breeding Registry(‘ General Stud Book’) in Britain and Ireland.
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