Musselburgh is about to pull in its biggest crowd for the £140,000 totescoop6 Edinburgh Cup meeting, with advance sales up by 10% on last year.
More than 6000 people are expected to attend, and not surprisingly the £60,000 feature race has attracted the attention of the leading UK stables with a stellar selection due to head north from Newmarket.
Bill Farnsworth, the manager of Musselburgh Racecourse, harbours ambitions of getting Channel 4 on board to televise the East Lothian track's premier turf meeting which would go some way to pushing ahead with plans for a £100,000 purse for the Edinburgh Cup. "It's our biggest Flat meeting of the season and that is reflected in the quality fields entered, the best of which will be heading to Royal Ascot in the coming weeks," he said.
"We have upped prize money by £10,000 and pre-sales are very good so we are expecting a very healthy 6000-plus crowd which will generate a great atmosphere on Derby Day. The big race from Epson will be live on our screens and we hope as the Edinburgh Cup continues to grow that we can encourage Channel 4 to give us a berth in their coverage and provide fans with a superb Derby Day Scotland-England double feature."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article