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• Welcome to the first day of our Flat season 2025, the Royal Ascot Trials Day presented by EventMasters.

• Gates open at 11.00am with the first race scheduled for 1.10pm and the 7^th and final race of the day scheduled for 4.30pm

• The feature race of the day is the Longines Sagaro Cup due off at 2.15pm (race three) with a prize fund of £80,000

• Current forecast is for a crowd of 5,600 which is roughly the same as in 2024 

Fees

The Daily Betting Badge fees are as follows

• Wednesday (5x £20) - £100

• RDT Racecourse Betting Compliance Fee - £30 – fee applies for each pitch 

• Staff (if required) – £20 per person

• Marketing Fee – £100 - payable for all bookmakers that attend as this is the first meeting of the season.

Betting Ring Plans

As usual the first horseshoe is not able to be used through the flat season (including Royal Ascot) but we will remain flexible with access to all other pitches within the betting ring. 

We will continue to utilise the front two lines of pitches for the ‘quieter’ meetings as this move seemed to be universally accepted.  It also saves us time in having to relocate the line of bins. Obviously this will change for the busier Saturdays and Royal Ascot. 

Other than that there are no plans to restrict usage of any pitch but please be advised we expect and require you to keep the area around the pitch neat and tidy and all unused equipment to be stored behind the pitch. 

PITCHING IN TIME

• Pitching in time will be 2 hours before the first race

Purchasing your Badges / Tickets

As is standard now, payment of the ‘Daily Betting Badge’, any Bookmakers Staff badges, the Marketing Fee and the RDT Racecourse Betting Compliance Fee’ will be required in advance (the purchasing system allows for bookmakers to make their purchase up to midnight on the day before the raceday).

Please follow the links below

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/ascotracecourse/EDP/Event/Index/324

• A wristband for all bookmakers and staff members will be required to access the racecourse and will be able to be collected on the day of racing – wristbands must be worn to access the racecourse.

• All bookmakers and staff MUST access the racecourse via the Pavilion entrance

• To exit the racecourse please exit via the service tunnel

Car Parking

• Car park 6 is available and is free of charge

• Access can be arranged if you wish to drop equipment off early

• All cars will need to be off course by 10.00am

• Please contact me by email if this is required. Please advise the following information by 3.00pm on Tuesday 29^th April to ensure you will be able to drive on to the course.

  • Your name/Trading name

  • Make and model of car/Registration number if access is required

• If you do drop equipment off, all bookmakers and staff have to leave the racecourse and collect badges and wristbands from Badge Box.  Please ensure that all staff leave the racecourse after dropping off their equipment and re-enter through the staff tunnel.

Arrival Process

Please head to the bookmakers betting badge box and collect all badges and wristbands. Wristbands must be worn to gain entrance to the racecourse.

Summary

To enable payments to be processed your Ascot account and bank cards must be registered to the same address.  Please ensure this is the case as the banks are now rejecting payments based on different addresses being used.  This is a bank requirement and we cannot process the payment if this is the case.

If you are having issues with logging on, please contact me direct as soon as possible so that our ticketing team can explore what the problem is and find a solution to it.

• Email me at tony.may@ascot.com and advise what issues you are having!

If you have any queries or enquiries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Tony May

April 2025