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Musselburgh race goers will raise a glass to brewer John Smith’s who are sponsoring the John Smith’s Scottish Cheltenham Trials on Sunday February 7 and it promises to be a cracking meeting with some of the UK’s top trainers eyeing up the East Lothian meeting as ideal preparation for the Cheltenham Festival.
Total prize money on the day tops £100,000 and feature race is the John Smith’s Triumph Hurdle, supported by the John Smith’s Scottish Country Hurdle, with both races carrying a £30,000 purse and run over two miles. The Daily Record’s £10,000 handicap hurdle for four year old and older horses is the second race on the card, run over 2m 4f.
Musselburgh has abandoned tomorrow’s meeting (Fri Jan 15) and the extra meeting scheduled for Saturday following a course inspection.
Eighty per cent of the East Lothian track is raceable but bosses took the reluctant decision that a forecast overnight frost would prevent racing on Friday.
Musselburgh Racecourse has announced it will stage a new Derby Day race, the totepool Edinburgh Cup, which will be worth at least £80,000.
The totepool Edinburgh Cup will be Scotland’s second richest flat race, after the Ayr Gold Cup, and with race day prize money in excess of £200,000, will attract a high quality field of runners.
Musselburgh Racecourse will host an extra jumps meeting on Saturday (16 Jan) in addition to its scheduled meeting on Friday.
The two-day card is a welcome boost for National Hunt racing fans who have been hit by multiple cancellations across the UK due to the big freeze.
It may be eight months away but Musselburgh Ladies Day has got off to a flying start with 400 tickets snapped up in the first week on sale.
The East Lothian course has switched Scotland’s premier Ladies Day from its traditional Saturday berth in early June to a Friday afternoon. (June 18)
Musselburgh Moves Scotland’s Most Successful Race Day To New Date
Musselburgh Racecourse marches to a military tune this weekend when it stages the annual Royal Scots Family Race Day on Sunday. (Sun 27 sept)
More than 60 musicians from the combined regimental bands of They Royal Scots will march through the Honest Toun to the racecourse in time for the first of seven races.
Musselburgh Racecourse welcomes back the Radio Forth Road Show to Sunday’s Family Day meeting. (23 aug).
Presenters from east of Scotland’s top radio station will be on duty to entertain families who can enjoy a host of free child-friendly attractions.
Musselburgh Racecourse promises punters some slick moves tomorrow evening (Friday 7 Aug) when it stages its Republic of Soul Party Night.
The eight piece soul band will get on down to provide the post race entertainment with selected bars open until the last song at 9.30pm.
Musselburgh Racecourse is demonstrating its versatility and ability to maximize use of its facilities with a double header – of harness racing.
The East Lothian course this weekend (18 and 19 July) plays host to one of the UK’s richest harness racing meetings and the sports most prestigious race, the Famous Musselburgh Pace Cup.
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Musselburgh Racecourse is treating punters to free entry at its next meeting on Monday 6 July.
Sponsors Blue Square and the racecourse’s oncourse bookies are sharing the cost of the free entry, which saves race goers the standard £13 ticket price.
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Musselburgh Racecourse’s Ladies Day created a modern day attendance record with 8800 people visiting the East Lothian track.
Changes in the layout of public areas and increased picnic facilities allowed the racecourse to increase capacity from the previous 7500 limit.
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Live music will take centre stage for the first time at Musselburgh Racecourse when it holds its next race meeting on Friday. (29 May)
Musselburgh Racecourse has completed a £120,000 upgrade of its Queen’s Stand pavilion.
The East Lothian course has refurbished the corporate hospitality suites and improved the decoration and furnishings in the stand which was opened 14 years ago by HM Queen Elizabeth.
Musselburgh Racecourse has become the first Scottish racetrack to join the social networking site Twitter.
The East Lothian course will be updating followers on race meetings, ticket sales, special offers and promotional packages.
Musselburgh Racecourse has completed a £120,000 upgrade of its Queen’s Stand pavilion.
The East Lothian course has refurbished the corporate hospitality suites and improved the decoration and furnishings in the stand which was opened 14 years ago by HM Queen Elizabeth.
More than 5600 adults and children helped Musselburgh Racecourse to a cracking Easter Sunday attendance record.
The bumper crowd took advantage of the sunny weather to reinforce the racecourse’s position as venue for East Lothian’s largest Easter Sunday family event.
More than 5000 families are expected at East Lothian’s largest Easter Sunday family day at Musselburgh Racecourse. (sun 12 April)
With all children’s entertainment free and almost £60,000 prize money on offer in seven flat races, the racecourse is looking forward to a bumper holiday crowd at the totesport Easter Sunday Family Race Day.
Musselburgh Racecourse is flat out as it kicks off the start of its 17 fixture flat season on Friday. (3 April)
The Spring Race Day features seven races with total prize money of £38,000 including a £9000 feature handicap race over 1 mile for 4 year olds and over.
All Gone – Musselburgh Ladies Day Sold Out
Musselburgh Racecourse has announced their annual Ladies Day event has sold out.
Scotland’s premier Ladies Day has proved to be recession-proof with all public sales tickets being snapped up with still 11 weeks to go until the 6 June meeting.
It’s the third successive year the East Lothian course have been forced to put up the ‘Sold Out’ signs in advance of Ladies Day, despite increasing the attendance capacity each year.
With still three months to go Musselburgh Racecourse have warned they are racing towards a sell out for Ladies Day.
The East Lothian course are selling tickets at a rate of 200 a day and have only 1000 public admission tickets left for the 6 June glamour meeting.
Musselburgh Racecourse is back racing again on Friday (20 Feb) after its last meeting (11 Feb) was abandoned due to frost.
In an effort to make up for lost ground the East Lothian course secured an extra fixture and gates open at noon with the first race at 2pm.
Two tourism champions will be honoured at Musselburgh Racecourse’s next meeting on Wednesday. (11 Feb)
Guests from Scottish Racing and Unique Venues of Edinburgh – which both won tourism category awards at the VisitScotland Thistle Awards – will attend the meeting.
Northern racings’ big guns could be outmanoeuvred at Musselburgh Racecourse on Sunday as their southern neighbours tool up for a cross border raid.
Howard Johnson and millionaire owner Graham Wylie have a firm grip of the winter bragging rights at the East Lothian course with their winning streak in to double figures but the John Smiths Cheltenham Trials Race Day (1 Feb) will prove their toughest challenge yet.
One of the wettest summers on record dented 2008 attendance figures in an otherwise good year for Musselburgh Racecourse, general manager Bill Farnsworth has revealed.
But the upbeat boss of the East Lothian course prefers to look back at the highlights of 2008 which included a second Ladies Day sell out meeting, hospitality sales up by 15 per cent and hosting the course’s first Friday night fixture which pulled in more than 5000 punters.
Musselburgh Racecourse are preparing for a double sporting festive feast with the traditional New Year Sprint Race Day on Monday December 29.
Seven national hunt races share the turf with the 140th New Year Sprint, the oldest professional athletics race in the world.
Musselburgh Racecourse stages its second jumps meeting of the season on Monday. (Dec 8)
Racecourse officials will be keeping a close eye on the weather conditions following the recent below freezing temperatures but say the track is in good condition and don’t anticipate any problems.
Plans to put Musselburgh Racecourse on the map as a venue for unique events and conferences have been strengthened following the success of the recent Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival. (GOWRF)
More than 2000 senior followers of the oval ball flocked to the East Lothian course to experience a Highland Day Out, featuring traditional Scottish dancing, games, exhibitions and crafts.
Musselburgh Racecourse kicks off its richest jump season ever on Friday (Nov 28).
With record prize money of £440,000 on offer throughout the season, Musselburgh have also secured an extra fixture and the new race day on March 1 takes the East Lothian course up to nine National Hunt meetings for the first time.
A long-term strategy and a dollop of good luck have combined to bring the strongest jumps field ever to assemble at Musselburgh Racecourse this Sunday. (Feb 7)
The John Smith’s Scottish Cheltenham Trials Day has come of age, reckons Musselburgh boss Bill Farnsworth, and punters will benefit from the opportunity to take in some first class racing.