Royal Ascot Ladies Day Tickets & Corporate Hospitality Packages
Royal Ascot 2012 – Horse Racing Corporate Hospitality Packages & Private Boxes for Gold Cup (Ladies Day), St James’s Palace Stakes, Coronation Cup & Prince of Wales Stakes.
19th – 23rd June 2012
Sports No1 Horse Racing meeting takes place at Royal Ascot, from Tuesday 19th to Saturday 23rd June 2012 and is not only the centrepiece of the British social calendar, but also host to the world’s greatest race meeting. Attracting enormous international appeal, Ladies Day is the highlight of Britain’s most popular horse race meeting. There is nothing quite like the atmospheric cocktail of priceless horses, fantastic horse racing and the most extraordinary fashion parade in the world.
Corporate hospitality packages are available in a variety of Hospitality Boxes, Suites and Marquees. The Imperial Village Marquee is situated in the infield directly opposite the main grandstand while the Pavilion is located directly behind it with views across the Royal Ascot Plaza.
Track Viewing Restaurants
All of the following fine dining restaurants have private balconies or terraces with spectacular views across the track and Windsor Great Park beyond. Guests can soak up the pageantry as the Royal Procession proceeds up the track from the Golden Gates or experience the exhilaration as the best racehorses in the world thunder around the track in their bid to be named a Royal Ascot winner, Trackside Club Lounge; Panoramic Restaurant; Bessborough Restaurant (including the Royal Ascot Fashion Show); Carriages Restaurant and Sandringham Restaurant.
Not trackside, but superbly located for the real racing afficionados is the Parade Ring Restaurant with views towards the Parade Ring. Watch the horses parade prior to their race, before putting on your bet and cheering them home.
Experience exclusive hospitality in a Private Box. Savour the exhilarating atmosphere in style with a spectacular view of the racing.
Ascot Racecourse stages 26 days of racing throughout the year, but the five-day Royal Meeting, held annually in June, is the most famous and is a key date in the social calendar which combines venerable tradition with fashionable panache. The first race meeting ever held at Ascot took place on 11 August 1711 and was instigated by Queen Anne, but it was with the accession of George II that the race became one of the most popular horse race meetings in England. The Royal Enclosure dates back to the 1790s, when a separate Royal Stand was erected originally to ensure privacy for members of the royal family. The exclusive Royal Box, commissioned by George IV in 1822, was only accessible to guests brandishing a royal invitation.
These days to gain entry to the Royal Enclosure, race-goers must obtain a sponsorship form and have it signed by someone who has attended the Royal Enclosure for 4 years. Convicted criminals and undischarged bankrupts were barred from the Royal Enclosure. Divorcées have been allowed in since 1955.
However, in 2007 the Royal Enclosure offered day passes to those who bought hospitality in the Panoramic, Windsor Forest, Parade Ring or the Trackside Restaurants.
Each day during the Royal Meeting the Queen and her party drive in open-topped carriages across Windsor Park, entering the racecourse by the Golden Gates. Tuesday features The Queen Anne Stakes, The St James’s Palace Stakes and The King’s Stand Stakes. On Wednesday you can see The Prince of Wales’s Stakes. The prestigious Gold Cup event is held on Ladies’ Day (Thursday), when women entering the Royal Enclosure must wear a hat that covers the ‘crown of their head’. Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot can trace its roots back to 1823, when an anonymous poet described the Thursday of the Royal meeting as ‘Ladies’ Day… when the women, like angels, look sweetly divine.’ On Friday it is the turn of the Coronation Stakes, and the Meeting ends on Saturday with the Golden Jubilee Stakes.
Royal Ascot’s much loved tradition of ’singing round the bandstand’ dates to the 1970s under the stewardship of Lady Beaumont, wife of the then Clerk of the Course. The after-racing medley of British favourites and flag waving was an immediate hit, and thousands of racegoers stayed on and joined in. Now, traditional singing is listed as part of the day’s formal proceedings and songbooks and flags are handed round.
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