Food and drink businesses
from Lincolnshire and beyond are set to descend on Market Rasen Racecourse for a
Harvest Festival racing day on the final Saturday of the
month.
They will be joined on
27th September by BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live wine expert Jane
Parkinson who will be giving demonstrations about wine.
The fixture traditionally marks
the moment when ‘summer’ jump racing comes
to an end and the autumn/winter season begins in earnest.
Harvest Festival Food and Drink
Day – one of the most significant racing occasions of the year – features the
Listed £50,000 Prelude Handicap Chase and the Listed £35,000 Prelude Hurdle,
races always targeted by the top racehorse trainers across
Britain.
As well as the horse racing,
visitors will be able to sample and buy an array of food and drink, take part in
baking competitions for both adults and children and see a display of farm
machinery.
Among Lincolnshire businesses
getting involved in the Harvest Festival are: Cote Hill Cheese of
Osgodby; MarRon Liquers of Waddingham; Crepes Delight of
Brigg; Tom Woods beer of Barnetby; Sweet Heart Chilli sauce of
Horncastle; Fabulously Fruity Wine of New Waltham; and Percy’s T
vodka iced drinks of Kirton Holme, Boston.
From beyond Lincolnshire are
coming: Hepys Hog Roast homemade sausages of Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire;
Oak Tree Farm hog roast of Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire; and
Raisthorpe Manor gin and vodka of North Yorkshire.
Race-goers will be encouraged
to make a donation during the afternoon to the Lincolnshire food
bank.
Pip Kirkby, General Manager,
of Market Rasen Racecourse,
said: “Our
Prelude meeting – which this year is Harvest Festival Food and Drink day - is
always popular as the change of seasons in jump racing is marked in
Lincolnshire. The quality of the racing is excellent and we are delighted with
the response from small food and drinks from Lincolnshire and further afield who
will be a super attraction for our visitors. TV wine expert Jane Parkinson will
also be a dig draw.”
Visitors
can bring their own gazebos and fold-up furniture into the Family
Enclosure.
Adult
tickets can be bought at www.marketrasenraces.co.uk or by
telephone on 0844 579 3009. Advance
prices, which are discounted, are: County £19.80; Tattersalls £14.40; Family
£6.75. Savings of up to 25% on on-the-day admission are available on advance
purchases. Accompanied children aged under 18 will be admitted free of
charge.
The first race is at 1.45pm,
with gates opening two hours earlier.
Market Rasen Racecourse is
staging 21 jump racing meetings in 2014 and is a leading conference and events
centre in the East Midlands. More information is available at www.marketrasenraces.co.uk.
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