Bulk image editing - Photoshop or Lightroom?

I frequently take photos of yacht racing and have someone else edit the images as I am new to CS6. Not only am I new to CS6 but I've been a PC user for the last 25 years, and have now switched to Mac. PC = English Mac = Russian. Which means I have a huge language barrier to deal with as well.
Image quality will always be an issue with my images, as on the days of the yacht races I can't always manage to make the sun shine and the rain not fall. A group of images on any given race day may need the same type of filtering eg: light enhance, tweaking in the colouring, and as with one group I had the ISO on my camera set incorrectly and all my images are grainy.
My question is. For this type of image alteration would it be best to use Photoshop or Lightroom. Bearing in mind that I might take 800 images on any one race day, of which 100 may be of use.
The number of images I take and the quality isn't about my skills as a photographer (some of that is the case but not all) it's because I'm taking photos of moving boats, from a moving boat with little control over light conditions and the need to take multiple photos in case the composition of the shot is ruined by some uncontrolable event.
I now take most of my images in Jpeg and Raw, to give me flexibility in processing. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

To be fair, Photoshop's ACR supports presets, the same as Lightroom does. You can synchronize your edits across multiple files with ACR (even applyihg settings from Bridge), and the develop tools are identical in function, if not form.
Where Lightroom is superior (for me) is the overall workflow. When you're in LR, you're there, and so are your images. There's no leed to load them into the ACR module; in Bridge if you open a bunch of photos in ACR and miss one, you're hosed for the time being... it's much easier (IMHO) to bounce back and forth between Library and Develop within LR than trying to juggle between Bridge and ACR.
At the end of the day, it's a personal preference, but if you're a LR user, definitely stick with it for bulk editing, you wouldn't gain anything by using PS.
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