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A celebration at Newmarket Racecourse during the three-day QIPCO Guineas Festival will coincide with the Coronation of King Charles III, the track said in a release on Thursday.

A garden party-themed picnic enclosure will be created trackside for Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7 where a family of four can attend for just £32 and bring their own food and drink. The racecourse will be themed to reflect the national celebration and will open its gates early on the Saturday to show the Coronation, with dedicated screens around the course and racing beginning slightly later in the afternoon.

“The 2023 QIPCO Guineas Festival will have something for everyone, and it's going to be a real celebration of racing, royalty and the local community at price points which we hope are accessible for all,” said Sophie Able, Newmarket Racecourses and International Director.

There will even be an opportunity to receive a masterclass from jockeys who have ridden in the royal colours in the QIPCO British Champions Series Fanzone, as well as a retired royal racehorse and a coronation-themed photo theatre set. Slipofthepen (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), who is owned by the King and Queen Consort, is possible for the feature race, the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas, on the day of the Coronation.

Ticket prices across the QIPCO Guineas Festival and Newmarket's 2023 season have also been reduced year-on-year. Click here for more information.

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Over £238,000 in prize money enhancements will be available from the British European Breeders’ Fund in July, as the organisation doubled their support for domestic racing this week. A total of 103 races will be run with EBF conditions next month, up by 13 from June. The prize money allocated by the class of race have also increased, with the Listed Glasgow S. for older horses for example, benefiting from up to £10,000 of extra funds and juvenile listed races receiving up to £6,000 more. Fillies’ handicaps and conditions races also benefit, and races during the Newmarket July Festival and Qatar Goodwood Festival will boast purses up to £10,000 in excess of minimum value. The British EBF is also sponsoring branded number cloths for all of their feature races, which can be up to £500 per race with the fee split between the owners of the runners on each occasion.

“We are hugely grateful to the British EBF for their longstanding support at the Qatar Goodwood Festival,” said Goodwood Racecourse’s Ed Arkell. “The prizemoney commitment from the British EBF, especially this year, has been key to allowing us to support prizemoney, considerably above minimum values, for a number of non-Pattern races.”

“The British EBF supported races have stood out as some of the most valuable since the restart and provided a much-needed stimulus to the middle and lower classes of races in June,” said the British EBF’s Sam Bullard. “We are delighted to be extending and increasing our support during July and we know that our contributions will continue to make a huge difference to purses during this challenging time for racing.

“In addition to weight-for-age races, we are now supporting a good selection of fillies’ handicaps and some conditions races. The Fund, generated from stallion income, are very happy to be able to help Epsom and Investec run the Woodcote Conditions S. again this year, a race won by champion 2-year-old Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal) in 2019.”

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