The two day Easter Festival are Plumpton’s busiest racemeetings of the year.  In the lead up the office is  especially busy – with a team of 4 we do try to answer all phone calls quickly, and offer our usual personal and friendly standards of service. The website has been a big help this year as many people have chosen to book tickets online.

We are trying a couple of new initiatives this Easter. The first is an on site creche and Easter activity centre - with Easter Egg Trail, Arts and Craft activities, sporting games and Munchie the Rabbit.

We are also trying a new race on the Sunday, a £10,000 2 mile Handicap Hurdle and are happy with the quality and number of entries at this stage.  We are very grateful for the support of our local trainers such as Gary Moore, Sheena West and Nick Gifford, as well as those who have entered runners from further afield such as David Pipe, Philip Hobbs and Charlie Mann. We would like to further improve the profile of this race and meeting in future years – it is always a difficult time to stage more valuable races as Easter is usually very close to either Cheltenham, Aintree, or both. 

We also received delivery of Plumpton’s new horse mascot last week which we have put in training for the Children’s Trust Mascot Champion Hurdle on May 9th. Racegoers at Easter will get the chance to name the mascot and win a VIP day at the races- so get your thinking caps on!