Client Stories
Jockey Club Racecourses
Jockey Club Racecourses (JCR) owns some of Europe's most popular racecourses, including Cheltenham, Aintree, Epsom and Sandown, and stage televised events with millions of followers, such as the Cheltenham festival and the Grand National.
Governor Technology provided the technical foundation for JCR's first online presence, with responsibility for the build, launch and maintenance of 14 editable sites, with facilities for gathering user registrations, collecting questionnaires and running competitions online.
Each of the JCR sites based on our work are fully content managed, enabling non-technical staff at each racecourse to update news, details of events and even to build new pages and navigation via a simple WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface. The system also imports feeds of fixtures and results from courses and external partners, updating both the fixtures pages and the events available for purchase in the ticketing area.
Governor Technology built a bespoke ticketing and merchandising application for site users to purchase everything they need online, which was securely integrated with both JCR's offline ticket management database, and all the major payment gateways.
Since launch, Governor Technology has been responsible for technical maintenance and hosting for all sites, which can experience peak loads of several million hits per day. The ticketing system has completed transactions worth millions of pounds - with the vast majority of all ticket sales now online.
