Ascot – Jumps Season 2024-25

Saturday 18th January 2025

 BetMGM Clarence House Raceday

  • Welcome back and a Happy New Year to all bookmakers and their teams
  • The feature race of the day is BetMGM Clarence House Chase and we’re hoping that Jonbon and Energumene will be declared in what could be the ‘race of the year’!!
  • Current forecast is for a crowd ‘in excess of 7,000’ though hopeful this will increase as the weather improves  
  • Gates open at 10.45 with 7 scheduled races
  • 1st Race 12.30pm / Last Race 4.00pm

Fees

The Daily Betting Badge fees are as follows

 

Betting Ring Plans

The changes made seemed to have been met with universal agreement and many thanks for your flexibility, we do plan to continue with the following plans.

Jumps Season – Nov 2024 – April 2025

 

Number of Bookmakers

2023 Details

Raceday

2023/24

2024/25 (estimated)

Rails

QA

Nov 2nd

63

65

22

41

Nov 22nd

50

50

19

31

Nov 23rd

49

50

22

27

Dec 20th

59

60

22

27

Dec 21st

70

70

20

39

Jan

N/a

50

 

 

Feb

57

60

24

33

April

49

50

19

30

 

To accommodate the number of bookmakers expected to attend each race meeting

  • Develop a plan to make better use of the betting ring by adding benches and to develop a more vibrant betting ring
  • Change to two lines of bookmakers instead of the current three
  • There will be 5 bookmakers in each ‘horseshoe’ rather than the current 7

Plan – using the existing anchorage points (if more bookmakers are in operation we’ll extend the ring to accommodate)

  • Nov 22nd – numbers available 1-63 (seven ‘horseshoes – the end of the betting ring will be in line with Aisle 16)
  • Nov 23rd – numbers available 1-63 (seven ‘horseshoes – the end of the betting ring will be in line with Aisle 16)

Only use the first two lines of anchorage points will be utilised in a horseshow formation with two bookmakers in the front line (no change) and three bookmakers in the second line (moved forward from the back line)

‘The Rails Operation will be unaffected by any changes’

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/321

 

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 16th 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.

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

Tony May