Which brings me neatly on to today’s episode where I’m chatting with Vicky Low who joins us from the sport of sailing. Our first non-horse-related guest! You might wonder what sailing and horseracing have got in common, and it turns out…quite a lot, and as CEO of The Magenta Project, which you’ll here about, Vick is at the forefront of developing an equitable and inclusive marine industry.  

The team here at Racing Home are big on collaboration and have been exploring the state of play for parents, mothers in particular, in other sports, and how we can work together to create change across multiple sports together. This has led us to realise that there are a lot of similarities as well as the obvious difference that one involves boats and one involves horseracing. 

Vic has become a real ally on some of the areas we’re working on here at Racing Home and we’re looking forward to announcing some further work later in the year.

In the meantime, enjoy this conversation.

Useful links

Find out more about The Magenta Project here

If you're not familiar, have a look at the Women in Racing Mentoring Programme (the Mentors 4 Mums Programme is is also now live!)

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

And a stud was exactly where we went for this month’s episode of the Racing Home podcast - Mill Farm to be exact, home to Eileen and Keith Harte and their twins, plus their business Keith Harte Bloodstock. 

As well as co-owning the business, driving mares to their coverings, supervising the team on the farm and providing mentorship through Women in Racing’s excellent programme (yes, it gets ANOTHER plug in this episode), Eileen is also a coach and is just finishing a two-year qualification as a psychotherapist.

She’s passionate about recruiting, developing and training people in the stud and bloodstock world, and talked to me here about the joy it brings her and Keith when people they’ve developed go onto great things, as well as raising twins on a very busy stud farm, away from their families in Ireland. Enjoy!

Useful links

If you're not familiar, have a look at the Women in Racing Mentoring Programme (the Mum Mentoring Programme is coming soon!)

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

But childcare is one thing. What about people who have caring responsibilities for older members of their family or if you have a family member who is chronically ill, disabled or needs daily help in any other way, shape or form that requires thinking and planning on a weekly basis?

Back in Episode 15 we talked to Nick Luck about parenting a child with a chronic illness as his daughter, Xanthe, has cystic fibrosis, and Nick was open about the fact that his wife Laura, managed the majority of Xanthe’s care and medical arrangements. Today we’re hearing another perspective.

Cheryl Caves is Operations Manager at the European Breeders Fund and has worked in and around the stud and bloodstock industry for 25 years. She comes from a non-racing background in Bristol and had no connection to racing before starting her studies at The National Stud. 

Cheryl has 2 kids, a husband who was in the military when said children were small and two parents with disabilities: her mother is deaf and her father is blind. As you’ll hear, there have been points in Cheryl’s life when her parents have required her help whilst her partner has been posted abroad and she had 2 very small children. Unsurprisingly, this has required significant organisational skills. No wonder she works in operations. Oh, and she also sits on the Women in Racing committee and is in charge of the Women in Racing Mentoring Programme. If you need something doing - as they say - ask a busy woman. 

So this episode is about the ‘sandwich generation’. Some of you will recognise the pressures that many people - often women -  face when caring both for children and parents, often with additional medical needs. Enjoy this one.    

Useful links

If you're not familiar, have a look at the Women in Racing Mentoring Programme (the Mum Mentoring Programme is coming soon!)

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

If you haven’t listened to the first part of this conversation and you've got time to do so, maybe go back one episode and do just that, but either way, here’s a little recap on a few things about these 4 women, who’ve all had a big part to play in the work of Women in Racing and Racing Home:  

Lucy’s daughter Francesca arrived 6 weeks prematurely and was in neonatal ICU, Eleanor had a planned caesarean then her son Angus spent a few days in NICU too, Tallulah herself developed sepsis post-natally and was re-admitted to hospital, and Susannah had a 48 hour labour followed by a caesarean section, so it’s fair to say that becoming a parent isn’t always a walk in the park…

We discussed a lot in this episode, including the subject of changing your job whilst pregnant and why everyone has an opinion on how you should parent, but this part of the conversation started with a chat about maintaining your identity when you become a mother. How do you not become a person that feels like your entire life consists of feeding, changing, bathing, soothing and filling the washing machine?

Useful links

If you're not familiar, have a look at the Women in Racing Mentoring Programme (the Mum Mentoring Programme is coming soon!)

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Our guests this week will be familiar to many of you: Lucy Gurney is the current chair of Women in Racing and, alongside Tallulah, is one of the rocks on which Racing Home is built. Tallulah Wilson, Susannah Gill and Eleanor Boden have all joined Naomi on the podcast previously before they had children (Susannah was in fact pregnant at the time of her first appearance!), and if you haven't listened to those then it's well worth checking out Episodes 1, 7 and 11.

All of our guests this week have had babies relatively recently and have now got little people in their lives between the ages of 5 months and 2 years. 

Eleanor Boden is Education, Development and Careers Programme Lead for the Horseracing Industry People Board and has a 6 month old son called Angus. She returned to work 10 weeks after having him and changed jobs whilst she was heavily pregnant. 

Lucy Gurney is Community Engagement Manager at Racing Together, and, as mentioned, is also the chair of Women in Racing. Her daughter Francesca is just over a year old but was born 6 weeks prematurely. Lucy came back to work recently, just before Fran’s 1st birthday. 

Tallulah Wilson is Head of International Partnerships at UK Tote Group and was chair of Women in Racing before Lucy, so she’s also been heavily involved in Racing Home. Her daughter, Otillie, is 9 months old and Tallulah is returning to work right about now.

Susannah Gill also works at the UK Tote Group, where she is Communications and Corporate Affairs Director. As she put it, she has "kept Johnny alive for just over 2 years" but he’s been - again, as Suz put it - in the safe hands of nursery since he was 4 months old, when she returned to work.

These four joined Naomi to discuss what motherhood is REALLY like: having a premature baby, changing jobs whilst heavily pregnant, judgement around the length of your mat leave, and the things that people don't tell you in advance of giving birth.

This was a long conversation so we've split it in two, and Part 2 will be out in a couple of weeks!

Useful links

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful...]]>The Racing Home podcast is back! Next week marks the start of the Cheltenham Festival 2025 so in advance of that, we're here with the first episode of a new season of the podcast.

Our guests this week will be familiar to many of you: Lucy Gurney is the current chair of Women in Racing and, alongside Tallulah, is one of the rocks on which Racing Home is built. Tallulah Wilson, Susannah Gill and Eleanor Boden have all joined Naomi on the podcast previously before they had children (Susannah was in fact pregnant at the time of her first appearance!), and if you haven't listened to those then it's well worth checking out Episodes 1, 7 and 11.

All of our guests this week have had babies relatively recently and have now got little people in their lives between the ages of 5 months and 2 years. 

Eleanor Boden is Education, Development and Careers Programme Lead for the Horseracing Industry People Board and has a 6 month old son called Angus. She returned to work 10 weeks after having him and changed jobs whilst she was heavily pregnant. 

Lucy Gurney is Community Engagement Manager at Racing Together, and, as mentioned, is also the chair of Women in Racing. Her daughter Francesca is just over a year old but was born 6 weeks prematurely. Lucy came back to work recently, just before Fran’s 1st birthday. 

Tallulah Wilson is Head of International Partnerships at UK Tote Group and was chair of Women in Racing before Lucy, so she’s also been heavily involved in Racing Home. Her daughter, Otillie, is 9 months old and Tallulah is returning to work right about now.

Susannah Gill also works at the UK Tote Group, where she is Communications and Corporate Affairs Director. As she put it, she has "kept Johnny alive for just over 2 years" but he’s been - again, as Suz put it - in the safe hands of nursery since he was 4 months old, when she returned to work.

These four joined Naomi to discuss what motherhood is REALLY like: having a premature baby, changing jobs whilst heavily pregnant, judgement around the length of your mat leave, and the things that people don't tell you in advance of giving birth.

This was a long conversation so we've split it in two, and Part 2 will be out in a couple of weeks!

Useful links

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

One of our guests today is making his Royal Ascot presenting debut this week, and we’re delighted to bring you this podcast in a week women in racing from across the world are being showcased and celebrated once again. 

We’ve talked a lot about parents in this series, particularly mothers, and we’ve heard from a fathers too. But if we want to create a working landscape where people are all pulling in the same direction, we need to look at things from the perspective of a younger generation, in particular young men. They are the sons, brothers, nephews and friends of women in the racing industry now, and they’re the fathers of the future. What they hear, what they think and what they do in their lives matters. 

I’m joined to dig into this topic by Callum Helliwell, a reporter for Sky Sports Racing who it’s fair to say is part of the “younger generation” and as you’ll hear is incredibly insightful, wise and eloquent on this subject, and Lyndon Roberts, the Head of Inclusion at the British Horseracing Authority, who’s worked in various sports for over 10 years and is a father himself.   

Useful links

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Simon Bailey is the National Chaplain to Horseracing. He lives with his family in Newmarket and is on the ground there daily, supporting those who work in racing, and people who have previously. Simon is a listening ear, a place to turn in times of need and someone with great knowledge of who can help, even if he can't. He's also one of the new team of Grassroots Ambassadors we've got here at Racing Home.

Ed Nicholson is pretty senior at Kindred, the parent company of Unibet - he's the Head of Racing Communications and Sponsorship in case you're interested. You'll hear that Ed's interest in equality in the sport goes back a long way, when he wrote a research piece back in the early 90s whilst at university.

Useful links

Read about Simon's work on the Racing Welfare website here

Read about Kindred's support of mental health and wellbeing in racing

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Nick Luck is one of the nation’s most recognisable racing broadcasters. Having been a mainstay of Channel 4 Racing previously, he’s also a stalwart of Racing TV, NBC’s Breeder’s Cup coverage in the US and a nine-time winner of the Horserace Writers and Photographers Broadcaster of the Year Award.

Nick has a wonderfully talented wife - classical singer, Laura - and they have 3 daughters aged 13, 9 and 5. Their youngest, Xanthe, has cystic fibrosis. 

Nick is a very busy father who travels a lot, and with a child with a chronic illness there are some additional challenges in their family too, all of which provided a fascinating conversation.

Useful links

If you'd like more info on cystic fibrosis, then you can find plenty here from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Follow Nick on Twitter here and Instagram here

Check out Luck on Sunday on Racing TV

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

I’ve had the good fortune to chat to Julie about the trajectory of her career previously and there’s a link here if you want to watch that one, but here we discussed a whole range of topics to do with work and family.

Useful links

Watch the Women in Racing Careering Ahead discussion with Julie about her working life

Read about Julie as CEO of the BHA on their website

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

The first phase of the project went really well, and we’re delighted to have received support and funding for the next stage from the Racing Foundation and Kindred Group, which will allow the team to embark on further research and roll out the groundbreaking physiotherapy programme produced in conjunction with the Injured Jockeys Fund and Racing Welfare. Can’t wait.

We’ve talked to a whole host of professionals across horseracing to bring you a range of persectives - there’s Lizzie Kelly on the jockey front, Claire Kübler from a trainers perspective, Leo Powell from the Irish Field, and a whole heap more. Don’t forget to listen then share the series with friends or anyone you know that might find it useful and interesting. We’d appreciate it.

My first guest for Season 2 is a breeder, backer, producer of horses, instructor, coach and mother to a sibling group of three adopted children with her partner.  

Useful links

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

How do you tread the path that others expect of you, and that you expect of yourself? In the case of my two guests today, part of that role is as “the wife” (or “the bloody wife” as Alice neatly calls it) to a successful man. 

Alice Plunkett will need no introduction to most of you, as she graces our television sets most weekends through the winter as part of the team at ITV Racing. Al remains the only woman to have ridden round Badminton Horse Trials and the national fences at Aintree, and she has 4 children aged 8, 10, 16 and 17. Her husband is a guy who in her words is “really good at jumping jumps” - that’s Olympic three day eventer William Fox Pitt - and they’ve got 28 boxes at home, with youngstock, ponies, hunters and top class eventers on the farm, as well as a farming business, holiday lets and working pupils from across the globe living on site.

Leanne Pipe has worked in racing for almost thirty years and is a prominent part of the operation at Pond House in Somerset, the home of previous winners of the Grand National, Paddy Power Gold Cup, the Hennessy Gold Cup and multiple races at the Cheltenham festival. Leanne is married to trainer David Pipe, and together they have 3 children aged 6, 10 and 12, as well as around 90 horses in training and 45 staff in their team. It’s busy.

Alice recently went down to Pond House with a camera crew from ITV Racing to feature Leanne and the team there, particularly highlighting the work of the brilliant women who’ve been at the yard for 20 years or more. Watch the video here!

Useful links

Follow Alice on Twitter, and the ITV Racing team

Follow Leanne and David on Twitter

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

If you’re a man of a certain age with grown up children like Stephen Padgett, or a childfree running-loving thirty-something woman like Susannah Gill, then the realities and pressures of a lot of the topics we’ve covered in the podcast aren’t necessarily crossing your mind on a daily basis. Although as you’ll hear, that’s all about the change for Susannah…

Suz and Stephen have kindly joined me today, and I am really grateful to both of them for their absolute honesty on this topic. You’ll hear Stephen talk openly about how he never dealt with his only children’s nappies, and how he does much more as a grandfather than he did when his kids were little, and Susannah on how running and travel have previously been much higher priorities for her than starting a family.  

But mainly, we’re talking about change. Changes in thoughts, actions and attitudes - both their own and those of the people around them. I’ll let Suz introduce herself first.

Useful links

Check out the National Horseracing College website here, and the Tote website here!

Follow Stephen on Twitter

Follow Susannah on Twitter

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Like periods, the menopause just used to fall under the bracket of “women’s issues” which were skirted around in the office and often mumbled about with embarrassment and shame. 14 million working days lost annually due to menopause-related symptoms. 63% women report being adversely affected at work by their experiences of the menopause, and 1 in 4 women consider leaving their jobs whilst going through it. 

Now, in part thanks to Davina McCall, Meg Matthews and a slew of other women holding conversations on menopause and being open about their experiences, change is coming, and it’s happening fast. 

I’m joined today to chat about this by Emma Tranter of Salisbury Racecourse, and Suzanne Homewood, a non-exec director at British Dressage and Racing Home supporter.

Useful links

Follow Salisbury Racecourse on Twitter and check out their website here

Watch Davina McCall's Channel 4 series on the menopause here

Listen to the award-winning menopause podcast 'Effin Hormones and award-nominated podcast The Happy Menopause

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

So I’m delighted that today I’m joined by Catherine Beloff and Jayne Greenman.

Catherine is the Director of Legal, Governance and Business Partners at the British Horseracing Authority. She joined the BHA in 2015 and has been a director since 2016. Catherine has a son, Benjamin, who’s 8, and a daughter, Lara who was born just prior to the pandemic starting, and is now 2 ½.

Jayne is the Director of HR at Arena Racing Company. She joined Northern Racing in 2009, and became a director in 2012. Jayne has been a single parent since 2021, and has two children - a son, Hector, who’s now 10, and a daughter, Indiana, who’s 6. 

Useful links

Follow Jayne on Twitter

Watch Davina McCall's Channel 4 series on the menopause here

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Dom has worked in racing for 20 years, 11 of which have been in Newmarket. She’s been with the National Association Of Racing Staff for 4 years, and is the project assistant for their education programme, working on upskilling racing staff to help them progress inside the industry, or to move on to further employment elsewhere if desired. Dom has two teenage sons aged 15 and 13 and has been a single parent for 13 years. 

Dr. Anna-Louise Mackinnon is a Consultant in sport and exercise medicine for Injured Jockeys Fund and the British Equestrian Federation as well as practising within the NHS. Having previously ridden out for Andrew Balding and competed in a charity race, Anna-Louise heads up the medical team for the IJF, providing a point of contact for questions from physios, nutritionists, dietitians, psychologists, sport & exercise consultants, liaison teams. She’s a hugely experienced sports medicine doctor and we’re thrilled to have her as part of the Racing Home team. 

Useful links

Email Dom at DominiqueTortice@naors.co.uk to find out more about the pilot project and get involved

Anna-Louise mentioned This Mum Runs and the Active Pregnancy Foundation, both of which have great info and resources for pregnant women

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Abbie Taylor is the newly-appointed Education Manager at The National Stud, where she’s responsible for looking after the Entry to Stud Employment Programmes, the Diploma in Stud Practice and Management, and the other advanced education courses run by the stud. She has been previously a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and at Abingdon and Witney College, worked for Malcolm Bastard’s pre-training operation, spent time at Hillwood Stud, and worked for various racing trainers including Tim Vaughan and Jonathan Portman, so she has a broad and deep knowledge of the industry gained through experience.

Eleanor Boden is the CEO of the Scottish Racing Academy and has been for the last 3 years, having previously been Community Engagement Co-ordinator for Scottish Racing, and worked with Racing To School and Careers in Racing. Eleanor was also racecourse yard manager at Cartmel Racecourse and rode out for various trainers throughout her education and training. She has also completed a pHD on the “Lived Experiences of Women During Education and Training Provision in the UK and Ireland through to early employment”. Both she and Abbie have careers that are steeped in education and training,so were the perfect people to discuss this aspect of the racing industry with us.

Useful links

Follow The Jockey Club and the Scottish Racing Academy on Twitter

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

Today's guests are Leo Powell, who has been Editor of the Irish Field for 19 years, prior to which he was Director of Sales and Marketing at Goffs. He kept it quiet, but it turns out he’s also the Arts and Theatre columnist for Irish Country Living. Leo has three adult children from an earlier marriage, and now has a partner after coming out in his fifties.

David Letts started in racing at 16 and since graduating from university has worked in various roles from yards to sponsorship jobs. He holds the Thoroughbred Horseracing Industries MBA from the University of Liverpool, where he completed his dissertation on sexual orientation, attitudes and prevalence in the racing industry, and is now completing a PhD in the organisational culture and masculinities of British racing and the impact of that on quality, diversity and inclusion.  David is part of the Diversity in Racing Steering Group and chairs the Racing with Pride committee.

Useful links

Follow Leo on Twitter at @PowellLeo and read his work at The Irish Field and Irish Country Living

Follow David on Twitter at @davidletts21 and read more about Racing With Pride

Listen to Pride and Joy on BBC Sounds

Check out the Racing Home website here (there's LOADS of useful info there)

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

And finally, the Women in Racing website is here too!

I’ve also had an amazing amount of feedback on the episodes we’ve put out so far, and some incredible conversations with people in the industry about all manner of things to do with motherhood, the menopause, termination for medical reasons, difficulties at work, juggling family and beyond. Thank you all for your messages, and for being so incredibly honest. If you’d like to get in touch then do email us at enquiries@racinghome.org.uk

My guests today are a pair of riding trailblazers.

Lizzie Kelly was a National Hunt jockey who retired in 2020 after becoming the first female jockey to win a Grade 1 in the UK when winning the Kauto Star Novices Chase at Kempton. She now works for Talk Sport plus a couple of other outlets, juggling her media work with 17 month old son Hugo, and the Valentine Bloodstock, the business she runs with her husband Ed.

Dana Mellor has, in her words, “been economically active for 20 years without ever having a  “job””. She rode out for Jack Berry whilst doing a law degree at university, and after finishing her law finals on a Friday, started as an apprentice jockey the following Monday. Dana rode winners in seven countries including Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and Japan before returning home. She's worked for JETS and the Injured Jockeys Fund, and is now involved in the Racing Home project via Simply Racing.

Useful links

Follow Lizzie on Twitter at @lizdkelly and @ValentineBStock

Read about Dana's work with Simply Racing

Listen to modern pentahlete Jess Varley on 28ish Days Later podcast talking about menstrual cycles and exercise

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

Women in Racing's website: https://www.womeninracing.co.uk

What does that mean to you? For many women, especially women of colour, LGBTQI+ folk, women with disabilities, and dare we say it - mothers. ambition is still something we often feel inclined to hide. After all, nobody likes a pushy woman, a bossy woman, an assertive woman, or a woman who puts her career above all else, right? 

In 2015, actress and advocate Reese Witherspoon gave a speech in which she said “I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself, and your abilities. What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.” 

I’ve got two women on the podcast today who are both incredible mothers, and incredibly successful in their careers. They are talented, and capable, and they have ambition, in a good way. 

Zoe Elliott has worked in horseracing for 25 years mostly at the BHA but also as a freelancer. She is Head of Careers Marketing for British Horseracing, where she aims to promote the industry as a fantastic place to work and support people into the workplace through training and the Careers in Racing jobs board. After going through a divorce 3 years ago, Zoe is a single mum of 2 boys, aged 13 and 10. 

Amy Starkey has worked in racing for 20 years, 17 years of which have been at The Jockey Club. Amy started working in betting shops at the age of 18 to fund her way through university, then secured a place on the BHA Graduate Programme. After a stint with ARC, she joined the Jockey Club where she’s now the Managing Director of the eastern region, looking after 7 racecourses in the portfolio - Epsom, Sandown, Kempton Park, Huntingdon, Newmarket, Market Rasen and Nottingham. 

Amy has a 14 month old son called James with her partner, Chris. They also co-parent Chris’s two children from a previous relationship, a 14 year old daughter, and a 10 year old son. 

Useful links

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

Women in Racing's website: https://www.womeninracing.co.uk

Gemma Ospedale is a partner in the employment team at law firm RWK Goodman. She specialises in employment law, advising both employers and employees on maternity and paternity rights, flexible working, discrimination and working practices amongst other things. Gemma started out in racing before becoming a lawyer, doing multiple stud seasons and working at Weatherbys, so she’s the perfect person for this interview. As you’ll hear later on, Gemma has also written the guidance documents for the Racing Home website on all things legal, so if you need simple, straightforward advice then you know where to look.

Rose Grissell is Head of Diversity and Inclusion for British Horseracing. She’s employed by the British Horseracing Authority, but holds responsibilities across the entire industry for D&I, co-ordinating and implementing the recommendations of the Diversity in Racing Steering Group’s Action Plan, and working with all stakeholders to better understand and improve diversity and inclusion. Rose comes from a family steeped in racing, and has ridden all her life, including in point-to-points. She is also currently 6 months pregnant, so is also - in a different way - uniquely placed to contribute to our conversation. 

Useful links

Follow RWK Goodman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwkgoodman

Follow Rose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoseGrissell

Follow Racing With Pride on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RacingWithPride

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

Women in Racing's website: https://www.womeninracing.co.uk

In this episode we're discussing parenthood from the perspective of a training yard: how you manage the transition from a physical job such as riding work when pregnant, how Andrea and Claire have navigated the traditional hours in a yard and adapted them to fit with the needs of their team, and how their experiences in business elsewhere have equipped them to shake up the status quo and retain experienced, loyal staff.

Claire and Andrea are both thoughtful, intelligent women that shared a lot of their own experiences with me as part of this episode, and a great deal of wisdom too. Their insights on how things CAN be done, with good communication and the will to do so is really refreshing.

Useful links

Claire and Dan's website: https://www.kublerracing.com

Follow Andrea and Jedd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeddokeeffe

Follow Claire and Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kublerracing/

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

Women in Racing's website: https://www.womeninracing.co.uk

Useful links

Read the Women in Racing and Oxford Brookes research on working mothers in horseracing here

Women in Racing's website: https://www.womeninracing.co.uk

Read the original research on gender and diversity in horseracing here