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Gerald Leigh Lectures 2025 - view now

Want to know what's new in upper airway diagnostics and wind surgery? Or get an update on tendon injury: therapy and management?
The 2025 Gerald Leigh Lectures focussed on these two important topics, organised and delivered once again by the Beaufort Cottage Educational Trust (BCET).

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TBA Essentials

TBA announces new free membership tier - TBA Essentials

The Thoroughbred Breeders Association (TBA) is excited to introduce a new, free-to-join membership tier: TBA Essentials. The new subscription is designed for anyone interested in the bloodstock industry, offering a range of free educational resources, podcasts with leading experts via the online educational platform TB-Ed, and monthly newsletters featuring the latest bloodstock news and upcoming TBA events. 

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Podcast - Deworming

Podcast with Prof. Jacqui Matthews

Join TB-Ed in a conversation on diagnostic testing of adult stock to guide wormer administration, with Prof. Jacqui Matthews, who is the Director of Veterinary Science at Austin Davis Biologics and a RCVS recognised specialist in parasitology; and the TBA’s Equine Health and Welfare Manager, Victoria Murrell.

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Introduction to People Management course

In Person Course

The Racing Staff Development Programme (RDSP) is hosting a one day Introduction to People Management course aimed at those in the breeding and racing industry wanting to progress their leadership skills.
Hosted at two separate venues later this year, the one day course is a perfect fit for people on stud farms interested in developing their understanding of leadership in an equine working environment.

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2025 ITBF webinar recording

Finding Positive Ways Forward - join an expert global panel assembled by the ITBF in a Q&A hosted by Nick Luck as they discuss numerous concepts around collaboration of securing and promoting the Thoroughbred.

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Worming Webinar - Free to view

Delivered by Westgate Labs in collaboration with the Racing Staff Development Programme, this informative and easy-to-follow webinar discusses the challenge of resistance, how we can develop our management to be more environmentally sustainable and improve horse welfare.
The future of parasite control in racehorses is delivered by Kristy Hodgson, Director and SQP at Westgate Labs.

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Foaling the Thoroughbred Mare

Foaling the Thoroughbred Mare

Join TB-Ed on a walk and talk around the foaling unit at one the UK's most well-established stud farms, New England Stud.
Recorded to support the Foaling the Mare Programme, exclusive to TB-Ed, this insightful conversation with Stud Groom Laurence Carling provides a fascinating insight into foaling Thoroughbred mares.

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Codes of practice

HBLB Codes of Practice 2025 now live

The latest edition of the Horserace Betting Levy Board's Codes of Practice has been published ahead of the forthcoming breeding season. The Codes set out voluntary recommendations to help breeders, in conjunction with their veterinary surgeons, prevent and control specific diseases in all breeds of horse and pony.