Welcome back and a Happy New Year to all bookmakers and their teams
The feature race of the day is BetMGM Clarence House Chase which is currently scheduled to start at 3.30pm
Current forecast is for a crowd ‘in excess of 7,600’ though hopeful this will increase as the weather improves
Gates open at 10.45 with 7 scheduled races
1st Race 12.25pm / Last Race 4.05pm
Fees
The Daily Betting Badge fees are as follows
Saturday (5x £19)- £95
RDT Racecourse Betting Compliance Fee - £30 – fee applies for each pitch
Staff (if required) – £19 per person
Marketing Fee – £100 - only payable if this is your first visit of the jumps season (the season runs from Nov 25-March 26)
PITCHING IN TIME
Pitching in time will be 2 hours before the first race
Purchasing your Badges / Tickets
Please follow the link below
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/568
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 9.30am
Please contact me by email if this is required. Please advise the following information by 3.00pm on Thursday 15th January advising
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
Jan 2026