A Yearin

Review

2012

hen we set out to become a society we outlined our aims in our constitution. These were as follows:“A) To promote and encourage horseracing and it’s related ac-tivities within college.B) To afford its members the op-portunity to become involved in, and to actively develop and pur-sue an interest in all aspects of the horseracing and bloodstock industries.C) To familiarize its members with the organization, operation, and financing of horseracing and to give members the opportu-nity to meet those specifically involved in the industry.”

We have achieved these aims and so much more this year.

Our journey began much earlier than other societies this year as set about setting up a society from scratch with no blueprint or roadmap anywhere else about how to set up a Horse Racing So-ciety. We were to be a new breed

of society and we set about set-ting very high standards from the outset. We secured sponsorship from Betdaq, Goffs and Cool-more Stud. We sat down with a top Graphic Designer to de-sign our logo, membership card, posters, t-shirts and stickers. We set up a Facebook account that now has over 1,100 members, a website that attracted over 6,000 views from 43 different countries during the 4 day Cheltenham festival alone and a Twitter ac-count with now over with 100 fol-lowers. We secured 8 deals with Local Businesses to be included on our membership card. We secured free entry for all mem-bers to Naas and Curragh Race-course. We spoke with Horse Racing Ireland on our desire to set a blueprint for future Horse Racing societies. We spoke with Leopardstown Racecourse about the Dublin Student Race day to fulfil our idea for a culmination of the year’s events. Then, we took a deep breath and waited Fresh-er’s Week.

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1. Aims and Objectives - p.32. The Burrito Grand National - p.4

3. Freshers Week - p.54. Super Mega Hypertacular Punchestown Extravaganza - p.6

5. Trip to Fairyhouse and Mad Haus Takeover - p.76. Local Celebrity - p.87. VDP Race Day - p.10

8. Dubes Race Day - p.119. Willie Mullins Stable Tour - p.12

10. Ballydole Stable Tour and Visit to Coolmore Stud - p.1311. Cheltenham Preview Night - p.1412. Horse Racing Soc’s Day Off p.1513. www.TCDHorseRacing.com - p.16

14. Spin 103.8 Race Day - p.1715. Promotion and Publicity - p.19

16. Legacy - p.21

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e organized the first society event of the year for any society in Trinity this year with the Burrito Grand National in association Burrito & Blues on Wexford Street at Trinity Halls. This was a roaring success with participants from Vincent De Paul, Law Society , DUBES (Business & Economics Society), The Philo-sophical Society and Players Society competed in a Burrito Race around Trinity Halls. Contestants had to eat a burrito then do a lap of the “track” before consuming another burrito. The winner was the first man to eat three burritos. It drew a great crowd of approximately 200 people, video coverage from our student newspa-per, the University Times and HRS was the word on everyone’s lips after the event. It showed as we were only behind the Historical Society and the Philosophical Society for members signed up after that Saturday with 327.

The Burrito Grand National W resher’s Week is the most important week of the year for Trinity Socie-ties. A society can live and die by the amount of members they sign up over the 5 day period in Trinity’s Front Square. We came prepared. We purchased a gazebo to protect us from the elements. We sourced 500 Fresher’s “Goodie” bags to give to our new members. These bags in-cluded everything from a free Racing Post, a ticket to the Curragh Race-course that weekend and even a free Memory Stick courtesy of the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association. We also gave every new member a “Beginners Guide to Horse Racing”

booklet so that peo-ple new to the sport didn’t have to be in-timidated by a whole new world of lingo. We print-ed off 100 t - s h i r t s , 1 , 0 0 0 m e m b e r -

ship cards and 2,000 stickers so every member felt involved right from the get go. We decided on the Member-ship fee of 2 euro and organised a team of 40 people to sign up mem-bers all week. We thought we’d have a good week. But never what actually happened. The Monday of Fresher’s Week was our most disappointing and exhilarat-ing day of the year. We arrived extra early buoyed by our Trinity Halls suc-cess to secure a spot beside the Law

Society. Joe O’Gorman, our Junior Dean, thought otherwise however and moved us as we were deemed to be blocking our Drama Society, Players, with our stand. We were the upstarts and Players were the society kingpins. Who were we to complain? Dejected, we set up shop at the back of Front Square in between the Rus-sian Society and Chess Society for the week. We had no chance. Then, we had a brainwave, clipboards. If the members would not come to us, we would just have to come to the mem-bers. Our 40 strong volunteers who helped out at various stages in the week set forth. That night we had 855 members, by the end of the week we were approaching 1,400 members. We had to ring our printers after the first day to say we needed more membership cards, they laughed down the phone at us, they thought we were joking, they thought our first order had been ridiculous with 1,000 cards but it turned out we were hav-ing the last laugh as we even man-aged to sign up more members then Players by the end of the week. Even when it rained we outperformed other societies as we had ponchos to give to out as a membership incen-tive. It poured and we reaped the benefits. We ended the week as the 4th Biggest Society of the 110 Socie-ties in Trinity and biggest New Soci-ety in the history of the College, an incredible achievement that we still can’t quite fathom. We might have had the worst stand in the place but our volunteers had the passion, drive and determination to still make the week work but in reality the hard work and our year was only just beginning.

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We wanted to start our Race Day’s with a bang and we needed a name to prove it so we came up with the “Super

Mega Hypetacular Punchestown Extravaganza”. We booked two buses thinking we’d do well to fill them. We ended up needing three buses and sold out all 150 tickets in two hours. Not a bad start.

It’s our goal in HRS to bring new people to the game and we felt we could only do that with incred-ible value and a great day out. The price of the day was 10 euro for that we provided;

Super Mega Hypetacular Punchestown Extravaganza

We had our sec-ond race day at Fairyhouse. We brought

110 people to the racetrack despite one of our most active members losing his Dad and having to contemplate canceling the event before he told us to go ahead as many of our members attended the funeral.

We provided the exact same day out as Punchestown for the exact same price. We even upgraded and rented out an entire restaurant right on the finish line! Our tipster had an especially good day in tipping 6 out of the 7 winners on the card result-ing in a lot of full pockets in the trip back to Trinity that night!

That night, in association with Trinity Ents, we hosted Mad Haus Goes to The Races in the packed Academy in Dublin with an attend-ance of 700 people. Here, we had a life-size wooden racehorse in the middle of the dance floor, we draped Racing flags throughout the club, had a jockey photo booth, racing playing on loop on the big screen, Horse Piñatas, the “Win-ners Enclosure” VIP area and even a racetrack in the club. We finished the night with a rendition of “My Lovely Horse’ of Farther Ted fame so nobody was mistaken who had taken over Mad Haus that night. We don’t there’s ever been a club night in Dublin quite like it! Even the picture doesn’t do it justice.

Trip to Fairyhouse & Mad Haus Takeover

• A return bus • Admission to the racecourse • A free Racing Post • A 100 euro best dressed Man Prize • A 100 euro best dressed Woman prize • Our own private our own private VIP room • Admission to a Nightclub, where we supported Cancer Soc’s Pink Party • 20 spot prizes • We made the presentation for our own race The TCD HRS Handi cap Hurdle • We provided an on course tipster to guide them in the direction of all the winners.

The day went off without a glitch as a roaring suc-cess and provided the blueprint for all our future race days. We don’t make a profit on our events. We don’t want to. We want to succeed in attracting people to the sport of kings at a young an age as possible.

We succeed in our goal to bring people new to the game with a survey done of attendees reveal-ing that 80% had never been racing before.. It just showed that when you bring the game of Horse Racing to students, they really do respond with an interest in the sport. That spurned us on for more and we plotted bigger and even more ambitious plans.

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rguably our biggest achievement of the year has been Local Celeb-rity. Local Celebrity is our society’s racehorse, the first ever racehorse owned by a University.

This attracted hugely positive me-dia attention for Trinity with The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Irish Times, University Times and The Racing Post all doing pieces on him. He races in the TCD red and black through an arrangement with Champion Trainer, Willie Mullins. The horse costs us nothing but we receive nothing financially in re-turn. Local Celebrity’s Trinity Ca-reer began with disaster however. We woke at 7am on a Saturday morning to pick up our Car Rental

Local Celebrity

to drive Society Members to Cork Racecourse. We were the favorite in the paper and all racing experts seemed to be pointing to a win for Trinity. The local bookies, computer rooms and campus living rooms were crammed to see if Local Celebrity could do the business for Trinity. We arrived; spoke with the trainer and jockey, Champion Amateur, Patrick Mullins in the parade ring before he mounted Local Celebrity. Took our position in the stands hugely excited only for all our hopes to be dashed as he was taken out at the very first Hurdle by another horse in the race. We sat back in the car, dejected, frus-trated and facing a lonely three-hour journey back to Trinity. That wasn’t

part of the script.

Our biggest moment of the year came with Local Celebrity’s win at Navan Racecourse. We approached the day with trepidation after his first run. We certainly didn’t expect what happened. He hacked home by 10 lengths to a huge roar from the Trinity contingent on Track to win the 9,320 euro first prize (which unfortunately we didn’t get a penny of) and a sizeable trophy which we took home to Trinity. The racetrack gave us a Champaign reception and we were featured in the Irish Times and Racing Post the next day. Days don’t come much better. There was a huge reaction on campus with hun-

dreds wishing committee members well done and a joke online petition being formed to get a bust of Local Celebrity made in bronze and placed in the centre of Trinity. They positivi-ty the horse resulted in and awareness about the sport he created was noth-ing short of astounding afterwards.

Local Celebrity still runs in the Trinity colours and is currently being pointed a a tilt at one of the races at the pres-tigious Punchestown Festival. Look out for our Red & black silks during Punchestown week cause you could be on to a winner!

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As a society, we felt the best way to spread the sport we love was to have as many collaborations with as many other college societies as possible. We also felt that given our standing as one of Trinity’s Biggest Societies, we felt it was our civic duty to help out where we could and in any way possible. A great way to do this we found this year was the Vincent De Paul Race Night. We raised 469 euro for the VDP by hosting a race night in the Graduate Memorial Building. We had a real life bookie take bets, a wine reception and a large big screen in the GMB as the siz-able crowd cheered on their fancies. We showed 10 races including our bonus Pig grand final race as the attendees placed bets on their fancies with all the profits going back to support VDP. This event helped fund a large part of Trinity Vin-cent De Paul’s operational budget for the year, something we’re very proud of. We then joined up with DUBES for the night out for the School Disco in Layfette with again, all profits going to VDP. An unexpected side effect of this event was that we were asked by countless individuals to host races days on their behalf. We were delighted to do this as individuals and lend out our services, DVD’s and take bets on behalf of nu-

A VDP Race Day

merous individuals, raising money for various causes such as SUAS and a Kili-manjaro Climb. A way of giving back we never even envisaged and we were de-lighted to do it.

e continued our association with DUBES and our constant search for society collaborations with the DUBES Race Day. This idea was born at a social event organized by our Central Society Committee at 4th week and came to fruition at Naas Racecourse during January.

We brought over 100 people to Naas and rented out a Corporate Box while still being able to main-tain our now legendary, 10-euro ticket price. A highlight of the day was having the entire contingent make the presentation to the win-ning owner in the DUBES & Horse Racing Soc Hype Handicap Hurdle. We also spiced up the Best Dressed Competition by offering a BESS Ball ticket to the winner.

We were delighted to afterwards re-ceive thank you cards from the win-ning trainer, Arthur Moore, for our sponsorship. We don’t pay for these sponsorships. It’s an added bonus we’ve pushed racecourses to sup-ply but he still wanted to acknowl-edge the great work we were doing to try to revive the industry. A very touching gesture from a legendary trainer.

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e hosted a Willie Mullins Stable Tour in February. Willie Mullins is the best National Hunt trainer in Ireland. He has a worldwide reputation for equine excellence and the chance to see his stables and even have a horse in training on the gallops with him has been an extraordinary one.

We got a once in lifetime chance to watch Willie’s string put final prepara-tions in for their trip to Cheltenham. We got to see equine superstars in action like Hurricane Fly, Quevega and of course our very own Local Celebrity. The hospitality afforded to us by Willie was incredible, he gave us a personal tour of his stables and he brought us all into his own house afterwards for a cup of tea. Our members were gob smacked when the champion trainer asked them did they want sugar in their tea!

We followed this by a trip to the Gowran Park racecourse and a fan-

tastic day’s racing once more for Red Mills Day at Gowran Park. The sig-nificance of the day was highlighted by Willie’s own son Patrick who when asked was he inundated with stable tours at this time of the year, he re-plied, that we were one of only three such tours allowed in the run up to Cheltenham. The other two being Channel 4 & RTE. That just made the day even more special.

Another proud element was that we provided the whole tour of for free. Tours such as these are a once in a lifetime experience but we feel it’s imperative to look after not only our causal race goers but also those com-plete die-hards who live for the game so this was our own way of saying thank you and using our sponsorship money in a constructive way and to be honest, quite magical way.

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reland is the horse capital of the world. The horse capital of Ireland is Coolmore & Ballydoyle Stables. We were fantastically lucky to be afforded a trip to see them both this March. When we arrived at the famed stables, our tour guide Polly made a statement that really made an impression on all 35 society members present. She had just given the identi-cal tour to a group of 4 English busi-nessmen who had paid for the tour in a charity auction. The price the 4 gentlemen paid? £10,500. What she didn’t know was the price we charged our members. Absolutely nothing. Ballydoyle Stables is where quite pos-sibly the greatest trainer that ever lived, Aidan O’Brien trains. It’s where equine greats like Nijinsky, Sadler’s Wells, Montjeu, Istabraq and Gali-leo have all been trained. It’s one of the most famous and revered places in all of Horse Racing and here we were 35 students down in a bus from Trinity to see it all. Aidan gave us a personal tour of the facilities includ-ing 50 miles of gallops, 200 boxes, an equine Jacuzzi, an equine spa, an equine swimming pool and even an equine treadmill. It was simply amaz-ing.We followed this with a trip to Cool-more Stud. Coolmore is the HQ of John Maginer’s worldwide breeding operation. Galileo, one of the 17 stal-lions that stands in Coolmore, stands for a whopping 300,00 euro a cover and makes the farm 60 million euro a year. Rumours are he’s insured for 400 million euro and we got to get our picture taken beside him, two feet away. Coolmore as one of our spon-sors rolled out the red carpet and provided a lunch and then paid for drinks on the house in the local Mc-

Carthy’s bar after the tour.The hospitality and good will they afforded us showed the fantastic be-lief the industry had in the hard work we were doing and we couldn’t have thanked them enough for having us.

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We hosted a Chel-tenham Preview night, in asso-ciation with our

sponsors Betdaq in Café-en Seine on the Thursday the 8th of March.

We had a 6 strong panel including top jockey Barry Geraghty, top tip-ster Donn McClean and Attheraces presenter Gary “The Voice of Ire-land” O’Brien come along to a crowd of over 200. he event was again with thanks to our sponosrs, free of charge; there was be plenty of finger food and thank god we found lot’s of winners for Cheltenham!

We feel it’s vital that our members get a chance to see these racing personalities up close and personal and engage with them and ask them questions. Our membership wouldn’t let Barry Geraghty leave without get-ting every last drop of information out of him for Horse Racing’s biggest week, Cheltenham and they loved the opportunity to view video guides for all the big races on Big Screen be-fore in-depth analysis from our panel while notes were frantically scribbled in our complementary Cheltenham Preview Guides given to all present.

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o celebrate the launch of the Spin 103.8 Race Day, Horse Racing Soc took the day off with Trinity Ents to bring Big Screens, outside on the grass, to the Pav, Trinity’s student bar, for the very first time to show the Cheltenham Festival and a screening of our favourite movie, Ferris Buller’s Day off.We had all the action from the best and final day of the week from Chel-tenham live on the big screen. We had roving tipsters going around in Horse Racing Soc T-shirts the en-tire day and more free Racing Posts then you can shake a stick at. Unfor-tunately, the weather god’s weren’t shinning on us as it rained miserably for most part of the early afternoon. Soon however the sun began to peak through the clouds and the crowds started to arrive in their droves. By the time we showed a screening of the cult classic Ferris Buller’s Day Off we estimate that about 400 people had arrived and come to watch the movie. This was followed by show-ing a slideshow of all the fun we had at Horse Racing Soc events this year and celebrated the launch of the world’s largest student Race Day, the Spin 103.8 Race Day on the 28th of March by having Spin DJ’s perform-ing a set until the night’s close to round off the perfect day off.

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e’ve strived this year to keep our membership informed be that in our weekly e-mails or our live blogging of society events on Twitter and Face-book. A crucial element of this infor-mation service provided to our mem-bers has been the introduction of our website which became a phenomenal success during the Cheltenham Fes-tival. Launched the weekend before Chel-tenham, we provided comprehen-sive coverage of every moment of Cheltenham 2012. We did race pre-views and tips for every single race run at Cheltenham with daily 4,000 word long previews. As soon as the action was offer we then provided a review of the day’s action includ-ing all the latest photo of the racing courtesy of our partners in the Rac-ing Post. We also conducted in depth interviews which couldn’t have been timelier with Champion Bumper win-ning jockey Patrick Mullins and Nicky Henderson, who became Chelten-ham’s winning most trainer in his-tory over the course of the week both

featuring on our sight. We also used our website to promote future events such as the Spin 103.8 Race Day and Horse Racing Soc’s Day Off.The success of the website was prov-en in the figures. Over the week of Cheltenham we attracted over 5,000 views to the site from 43 different countries. This brought TCD Horse Racing to whole new audience with people from India to New Zealand all viewing the website over the week. We were also delighted that it helped our ordinary members become more involved in the society by writing a preview, a review or even conducting an interview making us a more inclu-sive society as we always attempt to be in everything we do.

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W This is when things got a little bit silly.Our biggest day of the year and the culmina-

tion of our years work was the Spin 103.8 Race Day, which took place at Leopardstown Racecourse on the 28th of March. Our founder & Au-ditor, Jack Cantillon, came up with idea for a Dublin Student Race Day while in the Library after founding our society last year and this was culmination of a year of extraordi-nary hard work for him personally and the whole TCD Horse Racing team. We worked tirelessly over the year to offer a TCD Horse Racing Day that the entire student body of Dublin could enjoy. We want to get young people racing, and those young people, we felt pas-sionately, shouldn’t just be limited

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to Trinity. Our famous 10 euro ticket returned for Admission, a free pint, a 5 euro bet, admission to your choice of 3 nightclubs that night and a per-formance on track by The Ordinary Rudeboys, who are set to grace the stage of Trinity Ball later this year. We worked with a Leopardstown, Signature Group and had meetings within every major Dublin as to work out separate marketing campaigns in every college and met with Spin 103.8 to bring a title sponsor on board and use their promotional powers to bring the Racing to a whole new audience. We had secured a G-Star Raw Best Dressed competition with a 400 euro voucher for the Best Dressed Female and Male student. We had Intervar-sity challenges such as the Egg and spoon trials, the Spacehoppers Olym-

pics, and the final stretch run on the racetrack. Other attractions included the Bunjee Run, the inflatable Boxing Ring, Gladiators, Giant Chess, Giant Drafts, Giant Jenga, Connect 4 and Buzzer Game. The day was billed as a celebration of students with groups and societies coming from UCD, DIT, ITT, DCU, DBS and more. We brought in DCU Radio to broadcast from the track, we had the UCD Agricultural Society sell tickets in UCD, we had DIT DJ society performs sets throughout the track and so many more. We also helped raise funds for the Ross Nugent Foundation. By bill-ing the event in DIT as a RAG week fundraiser they were able to donate 1 euro off every ticket sale to the Ross

Nugent Foundation. We also named the 5th Race after Ross and had his parents present the prize to further raise awareness.Working with Leopardstown over the year we set ourselves a target of at-tracting 2,000 students to the race-course. Nothing could have prepared us for the amount that did show up. Blessed by a run of fantastic weather, we ended up with an attendance of 6,500 students on the night. Jack made the presentation of the feature race and was interviewed and thanked on behalf of the entire racecourse for along with the society creating an event that could compete with the numbers of UCD Ball and Trinity Ball in its first year. A remark-able achievement.

We have had fan-tastic publicity and promotion this year. Our

promotion began with Fresher’s Week with arguably the most eye-catching and appealing Graphic Design on show in Trinity. We were begged for our “Hype Committee” T-Shirts at our stand, while new members received a sticker stating that “I Got The Ride” as to gener-ate a buzz about membership. Our Membership Cards ran out the first day of Fresher’s Week and now form great collector’s items for the lucky few who got one of the 500!Outside of Trinity our huge mem-bership generated extensive media coverage. The Phoenix Magazine gave a glowing piece dedicated to our work, a rarity in that publi-cation. The Racing Post and Irish Field both published pictures and a feature account of our work. Alan Sweetman remarked in his widely read column “our drive and creativ-ity was the future of Irish Racing”. We were invited by HRI to launch the National Hunt Ambassador for that year and we’re interviewed and did a photo shoot for the Irish Time’s Social network feature in the Weekend Review section. We also had a big feature done on us in the UK publication, Owner & Breeder, which has a subscriber’s list of every owner and breeder in Britain. The ownership of Local Celebrity

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gave us renewed Media Coverage. Both The Sun and The Daily Mail wrote positive news stories about our ownership. The Irish Times included us in their Christmas Eve Magazine Edition as people to look out for dur-ing the Festive period at Leopards-town Racecourse. RTE Radio com-mented favorably on our ownership of Local Celebrity and the positive effect it was having on the youth of Trinity. Attheraces (Sky Channel 415) devoted 7 minutes of Satellite airtime covering Local Celebrity’s victory. The Racing Post gave us a glowing mention the next day while that weekend’s Pacemaker Magazine ran photos of our win. Our Auditor, Jack Cantillon represented Trinity at the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders EXPO, meeting Taoiseach Enda Kenny who complemented him on his work for the industry.Within Trinity, HRS has grown its reputation from nothing at the start of the year to that of rivaling an es-tablished large society by the end of it. This has been achieved through frequent communication, as many collaborations as possible with other societies and an enthusiastic com-mittee that loved nothing more than spreading the gospel of Horse Rac-ing. We ran joint events with DUBES,

VDP and Trinity Ents. We have a very active Facebook page. We e-mailed our members constantly about upcoming events. We es-tablished a website that was viewed over 5,000 times in one week. Our committee made it their business to constantly exude the positives about going racing to the entire student body. We prided ourselves on hear-ing positive feedback from our mem-bers and when we didn’t hear it, we strived to change what was wrong. We’ve been featured in both our student newspapers numerous times, the University Times filled the back page with Local celebrity’s victory and had a feature done on us in Trin-ity News after Freshers Week. We had some of the most eye-catching posters in Trinity and even made our own “Hype” videos when publicizing HRS events. One hype video for the Spin 103.8 race Day can be viewed on youtube entitled “Who’s got the ride in Trinity this year”, it was a huge viral success attracting thousands of views and countless shares on Facebook and Twitter. We even held events to promote future events, such as the Burrito Grand National to promote membership sign up for Freshers Week and a Bouncy Hopper race to promote the DUBES Race Day. We

religiously used the CSC event cal-endar submission program. We also sought to live blog all our events via Facebook so members who weren’t in attendance never felt out of the loop. After the Spin 103.8 Race Day, a picture of the crowds was the front page cover story while Go Racing, the Horse Racing Ireland Facebook page shared a picture of the crowds tagging our Auditor. In terms of publicity & promotion we went from not a single member this time last year to over 1,400 members within Trinity and a nationwide aware-ness of us as a shining light within the Horse Racing industry. We achieved this through a vast array of methods to publicize the society constant in-novation and an attitude of sheer positivity and towards the sport that exuded through everything we did.

e feel we’ve revolutionized student societies this year. We’ve gone from a pipe dream to one of the largest societies in Trinity in under a year. We secured sponsorship to fund all our activities and more. We’ve held some of the largest trips in Trinity. We’ve collaborated with a number of societies. We’ve raised money for Charity. We’ve fulfilled every single one of the aims as outlined by our constitution. We’ve brought a minority sport like Horse Racing right to the forefront of the Student conscience in TCD. We served our hardcore horse lovers but we’re just as proud in the fact that over 80% of our attendees have never been rac-ing before. The biggest part though is our race has barely even begun. We’re work-ing with UCD to provide a blueprint for the establishment of Copycat

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society there. Local Celebrity is be-ing aimed at the Punchestown Fes-tival, Ireland’s biggest racing festival. We’ve just founded the biggest stu-dent race day in history, with over 6,500 in the Spin 103.8 race day and we’re aiming for over 10,000 next year. We’ve brimmed with pride in going back over this year in compil-ing this portfolio of our work. We’re off and running but our race isn’t run until Horse Racing is the sport on the lips of the students of Ireland. We might be dreamers but we’ve been living a dream so far and we are up for the ride.

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