Saints and Sinners Ayr Bound

Wednesday July 18, 2007

TH'AYR OFF TO SAINTS AND SINNERS AT AYR

AYR Racecourse is to be the new home of The Saints and Sinners charity race meeting after the organisers approached Ayr earlier in the year to tender for the night.

After long deliberation the Saints and Sinners decided to end their 42 year association with Hamilton Park and the first Saints and Sinners Night to be held at Ayr will be on June 20, 2008 and will form part of the established June Festival at the track with racing also taking place the following afternoon.

The move further underlines Ayr's position as one of the leading courses in Britain and patrons attending the first Saints and Sinners Night there will enjoy fabulous new facilities.

The Ayr Executive are investing £3 million in new Grandstand bar facilities which will be open in time for the Coral Scottish Grand National in April next year. As part of the development a new members/owners and trainers bar will be created and a new Club bar will be situated beside the Weighing Room.

All of this will add to the comfort of attending racing at Ayr which can hold up to 20,000 racegoers and the course will be more than capable of welcoming the large numbers who will attend Saints and Sinners next year and the growing audience the event will attract over the years to come.

Already this year a new £250,000 Parade Ring and Winners Enclosure has been built and Champagne Gardens housing open air bars on a manicured lawn have been created.

Ayr Racecourse Chairman Alan Macdonald said : "We are delighted to welcome Saints and Sinners to Ayr Racecourse and I am certain it will be a bigger showpiece than ever before because of this move.

"The main objective is to raise as much money as possible for the charities that Saints and Sinners support.

"We are already home to the two main Scottish racing events of the year the Coral Scottish Grand National and totesport Ayr Gold Cup and we look forward to working with all those involved with Saints and Sinners to develop and grow the fixture into one of the top social events in the calendar.

"Our facilities are constantly being improved and we will soon boast bars, restaurants and viewing areas among the best in Britain."

Philip Martin, Racing Convenor for Saints and Sinners said : "The committee's decision was entirely based around maximising resources for the charities we support each year. Ayr provided a compelling proposition to grow the event and achieve this."

Saints and Sinners supports hundreds of charities each year and last year they raised £100,000.

Saints and Sinners Ayr Bound

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