AT Syndicates.racing our aim is to expand racehorse ownership, make it available to everyone from all walks of life, open the doors of our great sport to inform and educate the next generation of racing fans.

We firmly believe that horseracing is the ultimate sporting package that supplies participants with thrills, spills and a great day out.

My role as racing and bloodstock director is to ensure we do right by our syndicate members. We ensure complete transparency in everything that we do. We attend all of the top sales across Europe to source the best talent to go into training with the countries best trainers. Syndicates are broken into 100 units, making ownership affordable and fun.

In less than a year the white, black and red of Syndicates.racing has brought syndicate members to all of the premier racing festivals, flat and National Hunt, across Ireland and England.

Members have tasted glory in the Munster National, courtesy of Cabaret Queen for master trainer Willie Mullins, and more recently Tonkinese achieved ‘classic glory’ via the Apprentice Derby through a masterful ride from young Dylan Browne McMonagle and a superb training performance by Joseph O’Brien.

Covid-19 brought a halt to racing across Europe, which unfortunately left a lot of us longing for something to fill the void. Through the foresight and vision of Syndicates.racing founder, Jack Cantillon, the #BargainBreezer initiative was born after a series of online educational forums known as the “Art Of The Mating”.

The demand to get involved in the #BargainBreezer initiative was like nothing we have seen before and rightly so. It involved a €350 one-time payment for access to three horses sourced at this year’s breeze-up sales.

The aim is to get the horses sold out of training and if not they will be put through a horses-in-training sale at the end of the year, providing syndicate members with a chance to make a return on investment.

This project saw a completely different approach to racehorse ownership, with syndicate members trawling through the catalogues themselves and adding their picks to an online interactive shortlist. We also held an online webinar on the eve of the Craven/Ascot and Goffs/Arqana sales to talk through our shortlists and to field questions from our syndicate members.

Trainers pitched to us for the horses that we sourced and again syndicate members got to vote on who their horses would go into training with.

We have a strong ambition to make Syndicates.racing the biggest and best syndicate in Ireland. Through interactive, educational and affordable racehorse ownership, we want to encourage and nurture the next generation of racing fans, open the door to the country’s best training yards and compete at every level on the racetrack, maximising enjoyment and engagement for our syndicate members.

Email: john@syndicates.racing