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Welcome
Averywarm welcometoyou allthis evening and welcometo ourPalmaris Racenight. Evening racing is one of the key features of our fixture list here at Hamilton Park, and this is always one of my favourites with the combination of excellent racing and fantastic off-track entertainment.
A big thank you goes to all our sponsors this evening; Palmaris Services Ltd, Patersons of Greenoakhill, PDM Buildbase Scotland and Nodram Decorating, as well as David and Lisa Johnstone from Your Equipment Solutions who join us tonight to celebrate their Silver Wedding Anniversary.
I’d also like to welcome Lighthouse Club who are with us in the Club Lawn marquee tonight and are raising monies forvery worthy causes. I do hope you and all your guests have a wonderful evening with us.
Tonight’s racing has attracted good fields across the card with tonight’s feature race, the £30,000 Palmaris Services Braveheart Handicap Stakes at 7.20pm. Jim Goldie has once again targeted this race with the now 10-year-old Sir Chauvelin who will be going for a hat-trick of wins in this race following victories in 2016 and 2017.Top ofthe weights is Dark Jedi for Tim Easterby who is also a former course winner back in 2020 which came on soft ground, so conditions should suit him well this evening. Joe Fanning once again teams up with Charlie and Mark Johnston to ride Tribal Art who will be hoping to improve on their second place run in the Buttonhook Handicap on opening day, whilst Owners Two Goldfish & A Balloon will be looking for Heights of Abraham to feature having placed third in the same race.
The Palmaris Hire Services William Wallace Handicap at 7.55pm looks set to be an excellent contest with five former Hamilton Park winners going head-to-head amongst a field of thirteen. Jordan Electrics, owned by Brian Jordan and family, won over the same distance here at Hamilton as well asAyrlastJuly, so I’m sure theywill be looking to return to that form. My thanks go to the team at Jordan Electrics who are valued sponsors here at Hamilton Park, with their brand featuring on our head-on box at the Winning Post.
Away from the track action, the team here at Hamilton is proud to be supporting Mental Health Awareness week and we’ve been working with Racing Welfare to raise awareness ofthe different types of mental health issues people can face, with the focus this year on loneliness. The aim of the week is to encourage people to talk when they are struggling, whetherthat’sto afriend ora professional.The messagethat it’s okaynotto be okay, and to seeksupport intimes ofdifficultyis more relevantthan ever, especiallyas we move out of the pandemic which has affected us all so much and in many different ways. Details on how to reach out to Racing Welfare are in this evenings racecard.
After racing this evening I hope many of you will stay on to enjoy a mix of 90s dance classics, as iconic stars Kelly Llorenna, Urban Cookie Collective and house legend Dario G take to the stage, taking us through until bars close at 11pm.
Have a great night and I hope you find a few winners!
Kind regards,
