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Eight shortlisted yards revealed for Lycetts Team Champion Awards

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Eight stables have been shortlisted for the two 2020 Lycetts Team Champion AwardsCredit: Edward Whitaker

Stables across Britain are having to deal with unprecedented pressures due to the Covid-19 crisis, and a number of them have been shortlisted for the 2020 Lycetts Team Champion Award which celebrates yards with a strong team ethos.

The awards reward those stables with the highest standards of employee management.

There is a £4,000 prize for the winner in both categories, yards with 40 or more horses and yards with fewer than 40 horses.

Roger Charlton, William Haggas, Jonjo O'Neill and Bryan Smart have been shortlisted among the bigger yards, and Susan Corbett, Dan Kubler, Richard Phillips and Suzy Smith are shortlisted for the prize for smaller stables.

BHA board member Laura Whyte said: "I'm delighted to have been involved in judging these awards from the start - and each year it just gets harder.

"For 2020 I was hugely impressed at the standard of entries both from yards new to the awards and those who have developed their procedures and ways of working since last year.

"The detailed collation of all the evidence to support the entries speaks to a huge amount of effort from the yards involved and I would like to express my gratitude to them."

In the next phase of the awards, judges will adapt to the public health measures in place by holding online video calls with shortlisted yards to meet team members and get a feel for the practices described in the first stage of nominations. Winners will be announced in June.

National Trainers Federation chief executive Rupert Arnold said: "We would like to thank the yards who all put considerable effort into their nominations.

"It shows that even under the stress caused by the pandemic, trainers and staff are keen to publicise how they are adopting best practice and pulling together to promote staff retention."

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Bill BarberIndustry editor

Published on 26 May 2020inNews

Last updated 16:01, 26 May 2020

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