Entain Enters “Remarque-able" New Partnership

22 September 2023

Entain Australia and New Zealand’s innovative Ladbrokes Racing Club has a new flag-bearer after striking a deal with the iconic Arrowfield Stud, for Group performer Remarque to wear the Ladbrokes Racing Club silks.

The multi-year agreement will see a number of Arrowfield’s high-quality thoroughbreds race in the Ladbrokes Racing Club colours, headlined by recent Group 3 Concorde Stakes winner Remarque.

Remarque is a 5YO bay son of Snitzel out of the dam Response and has amassed $952,750 in career earnings. Trained by Team Hawkes he is likely to debut for the Ladbrokes Racing Club over The Everest Carnival in Sydney.

Other Arrowfield horses to join the Ladbrokes Racing Club team will include impressive last start winner Galano, and The Big Dance prospect, Akasawa. Trainers will include Paul Messara & Leah Gavranich, Team Hawkes, Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman and Annabel Neasham.

Since launching in February this year, Ladbrokes Racing Club has almost 15,000 opted-in members, who are enjoying ownership experiences across all three codes of racing.

The current LRC 'stable' includes 14 thoroughbreds, 5 standardbreds and 10 greyhounds, which are being raced in multiple jurisdictions, with opted-in members receiving benefits including race day ownership experiences, inner sanctum events and trainer and stable communications.

“We have been watching the growth of Ladbrokes Racing Club with close interest,” Arrowfield Group Chairman, John Messara said.

“It is important that racing is embracing new ways to engage audiences and to provide an ownership experience. When the Ladbrokes team approached us about partnering with some of our horses, we saw it as a great opportunity.

“It will be exciting to see if Remarque can become Ladbrokes Racing Club’s first Group winner.”

The partnership follows on from the successful alliance formed with Rosemont Stud in Victoria, which provided Ladbrokes Racing Club with its first thoroughbred winner via Everly's stampeding victory at Morphettville.

“Ladbrokes Racing Club is growing great momentum and to have recognised studs such as Arrowfield and Rosemont willing to go on this journey with us, is a great accomplishment,” Ladbrokes Australia CEO Dean Shannon said.

“I can’t thank John Messara and the team at Arrowfield enough for giving our customers access to a horse the calibre of Remarque.

"For those of us who have been lucky enough to be an owner and to experience the thrill of winning any race, let alone one of the big ones, we know there is nothing quite like it.

“We want to give our customers that experience. We want to give them the insight from the trainers and trackwork riders, and then to help them get trackside and feel the pre-race nerves and the exhilaration of when the gates crash open. Imagine if we can provide that experience for a horse competing at the absolute highest level.”

22 September 2023