• Boost is to enable course to hold pace with Goodwood and York
Another 700000 to be spent on current unsaddling enclosureEvery day at Royal Ascot this summer will be a £1m day following a decision at the Queen’s racecourse to ramp up prize money for the famous week of action in June. An additional 1m in prize money is to be added to purses,taking the total for the five race-days to more than £6.5m and ensuring that at least £1m will be, as it were, or redistributed each afternoon.Nor does the latest investment by Ascot end with that 18% increase in prizes at the Royal meeting. A further £700000 is to be spent on a current unsaddling enclosure which will never be a focus for racegoers but will provide connections of beaten horses the chance to consider their excuses in more comfortable environment.
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Source: theguardian.com