banking founded london england 1770 1770 founder james weatherby headquarters wellingborough northamptonshire england products general stud book racing calendar number of employees c. 400 divisions weatherbys ltd weatherbys bank website www.weatherbys.co.uk weatherbys is a privately owned english company established 1770 and currently based in wellingborough northamptonshire . the company provides british horse racing with its central administration under contract to the british horseracing authority acts as its bank and maintains the thoroughbred breed register . contents 1 history 2 current operations 3 see also 4 external links history edit the first mr weatherby james was appointed to serve the jockey club as its secretary in 1770 . he was an able and entrepreneurial man and over the next 25 years laid strong foundations for the business . he was assisted by his nephew whose work on racehorse pedigrees dovetailed neatly with james s racing work . in 1791 he promoted the publication of the general stud book a definitive record of the pedigrees of approximately 400 horses which were seen as the foundation for all thoroughbred stock worldwide . for 200 years weatherbys was based in london but in the late 1960s migration to wellingborough in northamptonshire was undertaken where they have been ever since . for the majority of its history weatherbys have been a family partnership but in 1994 became a limited company . weatherbys has its headquarters at wellingborough with approximately 300 employees . the seventh generation of the family runs the company today an unbroken history of family ownership for 245 years . current operations edit weatherbys ltd the founding company which today is primarily responsible for providing racing services to the bha along with racecard production pedigree research printing publishing marketing and ticketing services to a range of clients . also responsible for it operations underpinning the whole weatherbys organisation . 230 employees all based at wellingborough hq . weatherbys gsb ltd incorporated in 2002 with responsibility for general stud book registrations administration and publishing in great britain . 100 % subsidiary of weatherbys ltd. 10 employees all based at wellingborough hq . the point to point racing company ltd incorporated in 1989 and originally acquired by weatherbys ltd in 2003 . in 2010 half of the business was bought by the point to point authority and this shared ownership weatherbys ppa remains in place . provides publishing administrative and editorial services to the sport of point to point steeplechase horse racing in great britain . 3 employees based at wellingborough hq . weatherbys bank ltd incorporated in 1994 when weatherbys secured its first banking licence from the bank of england . provides banking services both to those engaged in horse racing and increasingly to a wider audience . authorised and regulated by the pra and fca . 100 employees divided between wellingborough hq and private banking offices in central london and edinburgh . arkle finance ltd incorporated in 1997 to provide commercial asset finance services . 100 % subsidiary of weatherbys bank ltd. 30 employees based at wellingborough hq . weatherbys hamilton llp constituted as a partnership in 2012 drawing together 50 % involvement from weatherbys bank ltd and 50 % from individual partners headed by charles hamilton . providing brokerage services for bloodstock property and liability insurance . offices at wellingborough dullingham swindon and london . 15 employees . weatherbys ireland ltd incorporated in 1983 to provide laboratory and other commercial services largely to the irish equine industry . recently diversified to provide extensive dna and genomic testing services to agricultural stock from its rank 1 isag laboratory in ireland . 23 employees all based at johnstown co kildare ireland . weatherbys ireland gsb ltd incorporated in 2002 with responsibility for general stud book registrations administration and publishing in ireland . 100 % subsidiary of weatherbys ltd. 12 employees all based at naas office in ireland . see also edit racing calendar external links edit official website v t e horseracing in great britain venues national hunt aintree bangor on dee cartmel cheltenham exeter fakenham fontwell park hereford closed 2012 ; reopened 2016 hexham huntingdon kelso ludlow market rasen newton abbot perth plumpton sedgefield stratford on avon taunton towcester uttoxeter warwick wincanton worcester flat bath beverley brighton chelmsford city chester epsom downs goodwood great yarmouth hamilton park newmarket nottingham pontefract redcar ripon salisbury thirsk windsor wolverhampton york mixed ascot ayr carlisle catterick chepstow doncaster ffos las haydock park kempton park leicester lingfield park musselburgh newbury newcastle sandown park southwell wetherby former alexandra park 1970 wye 1974 lanark 1977 stockton 1981 folkestone 2012 named races list of british flat horse races list of british national hunt races regulation british horseracing authority other bodies british racing school horserace betting levy board national association of stable staff racehorse owners association tattersalls the national stud weatherbys course owners arena racing company 15 merger of arena leisure and northern racing by reuben brothers jockey club racecourses 14 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title weatherbys & oldid 735522005 categories horse racing organisations in great britainservice companies of englandcompanies based in northamptonshire1770 establishments in englandcompanies established in 1770privately held companies of england navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 august 2016 at 09 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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