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he inaugural winners of the Lycetts Team Champion Award were Nick Alexander’s Kinneston yard in Fife, Scotland, and Warren Greatrex’s Uplands yard in Lambourn. The awards were presented at the Institute of Directors at Pall Mall in London on 22nd February. The winning yards were each awarded a £4,000 prize to benefit and support their team. Catch Bissett, assistant to Nick Alexander, said of their team, “They are a credit to the yard and the industry as a whole. The Lycetts Team Champion Award is a fantastic initiative which really reflects well on the staff at the heart of the industry. The application process gave us an opportunity to look into what we do and think about how we can make improvements for the future.” Warren Greatrex said, “I am really proud to win the inaugural Lycetts Team Champion Award. We are so lucky to have the staff we do. I feel our team are great ambassadors for the yard and British horseracing.” The National Trainers Federation (NTF) and Lycetts Insurance Brokers created the Lycetts Team Champion Award to deliver praise and a sense of achievement for the yards with the highest standards of employee management to showcase the positive results of developing a team that works well together, to spread the message about safe working practices, and to improve recruitment and retention rates by promoting the most successful management practices. Based on The Winning Approach, the award was funded with the help of The Racing Foundation. Yogi Breisner chaired the judging panel and presented the prizes, saying, “It has been a privilege to be involved in what I feel is a fantastic initiative by Lycetts and the NTF. I have been very impressed at the high standard of the applicants and it has shown that in many yards there is a very high level of work etiquette and team spirit.”
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The NTF’s Rupert Arnold commented, “I am delighted at how enthusiastically trainers and their staff have responded to this new award. By participating, they have opened their businesses to scrutiny by knowledgeable professionals and demonstrated that British racehorse trainers offer great places to work.”
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