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Halo Solutions has completed a group-wide rollout of The Halo System across all 14 racecourses operated by The Jockey Club, under a multi-year national contract.
Halo’s relationship with The Jockey Club began in October 2024, providing on-site incident management support at the Cheltenham Festival in March 2025.
Further live delivery followed at the Grand National at Aintree and the Derby at Epsom Downs later that year.
That track record across three of British racing’s biggest fixtures led to a national, group-wide agreement, with every Jockey Club racecourse – including Cheltenham, Aintree, Epsom Downs, Haydock Park, Newmarket, Sandown Park, Warwick, Nottingham, Carlisle and Market Rasen – now live on Halo for every meeting in the racing calendar since January 2026.
The Halo System connects racecourse teams with police, medical, on-course security and other operational partners, enabling centralised monitoring and coordinated responses to incidents, issues and concerns.
Multiple agencies can log and track activity in real time through Halo Solutions’ award-winning app, which feeds directly into the control room dashboard – ensuring the right information reaches the right people instantly, while maintaining a clear, comprehensive audit trail for every incident, task and response.
Sarah Walters, Group Head of Crowd Safety and Security at The Jockey Club, said: “We’re pleased to be working with Halo. This partnership supports the consistency we’re building across our racecourses.”
Lloyd Major, CEO of Halo Solutions, said: “Racing is an important growth area for Halo, and this partnership with The Jockey Club is a major step in strengthening our position across the sector.
“It reflects the growing demand for incident management systems that can support complex venues, multiple stakeholders and rising expectations around safety, security and accountability.”
Many racecourses already have experienced safety teams and strong procedures in place, but incident management across the sport has traditionally relied on radio traffic, paper logs, spreadsheets and site knowledge held by individuals – methods that become more fragile when incidents escalate, teams change, multiple agencies are involved, or evidence is needed after the event. Across a multi-site group, consistency becomes even more important.
“If every course records, manages and reports incidents differently, it becomes harder to compare risk, identify trends, share learning and evidence consistent standards,” Major continues.
“Racecourses are highly pressured operational environments, but they’re also becoming more complex.
“The challenge isn’t a lack of planning or expertise. It’s making sure teams have the tools to see what’s happening, coordinate the response and evidence the decisions being made.
“We want to ensure that each course under the Jockey Club name will retain the flexibility it needs, while creating a shared standard for incident management, reporting, tasking and operational visibility.”
