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ANNUAL MEMBERS NEWSLETTER
Welcome to Haydock Park on one of our biggest days of the year, bet365 Old Newton Cup Day.
I’m sure you all enjoyed Royal Ascot How fantastic it was to see Triple Time add to his triumvirate of Haydock Park victories in the Group 1 Queen Anne. Today is a historic day of great significance for the racecourse It really is remarkable that the roots of The Old Newton Cup relate back to 1807, with establishing on this site in 1903 from Newton It’s a fantastic race for Members to watch.
Winners of The Old Newton Cup rhyme off the tongue with aplomb: Rakaposhi King, Sir Henry Cecil’s only winner of the race in ‘86, Glide Path , the last dual winner in 1993/4, trained by the muchmissed John Hills and Collier Hill in 2003 who established more air miles than Judith Chalmers to mention just three. Today promises to be another fascinating contest in the glorious July sunshine. The bet365 Lancashire Oaks is a fantastic race for filles and mares. Alpinista won the race two years ago and was a subsequent winner of the Arc at Longchamp. Today we see Sea Silk Road, winner of our race commemorating the legendary Lester Piggott back in June, bid to follow up It was so enjoyable to see the horse win, given Lester’s daughter, Maureen, is the wife of Sea Silk Road’s trainer, William Haggas
An oasis in the shade is available to you all today in the shape of your viewing area, viewing boxes and designated area
To anyone reading this thinking I want to be an Annual Member, now is your chance Halfyear membership is now available. This includes reciprocal days to places like Ascot, Doncaster and Goodwood as well as 15 more days racing at Haydock Park including concerts from Nile Rogers and Chic , Group 1 Sprint Cup and Betfair Chase
I’d also like to welcome annual members from York Racecourse today, and we hope you have an enjoyable afternoon
For those of you who can’t get enough racing, we have a reciprocal at Market Rasen tomorrow, in what will be a lovely day in deepest Lincolnshire over the sticks.
I hope you have a wonderful and successful afternoon today and will hopefully see you all. We race again in 13 days
