Coates & Seely become an Official Partner and the only English Sparkling Wine served across Jockey Club racecourses.
C&S Sparkling Wines will also be offered to all winning owners and trainers after each race.
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Qatar Goodwood Festival 2019
Yet another glorious week at Goodwood, of thrilling racing, sartorial flare, fun and celebration, framed by the great beauty of the rolling Sussex Downs in the distance. The corks continued to pop all week as we drank to our winners and took comfort from our losses and the week rolled by in a typically glorious English way.
Grand National betting BOOM: Record £650m to be staked on ‘biggest race in history’
Daily Star: Jerry Lawton
Bookmakers predict bets totalling £650million will be placed over the three-day meeting, which starts today.
And £300m is expected to be wagered on the big race itself, which will be watched by a worldwide TV audience of 600m.
That will be the most bet on a horse race anywhere in the world.
Punters are queuing up to back last year’s champion Tiger Roll to become the first horse since Red Rum in 1974 to win two on the trot.
The horse – which won by 22 lengths at Cheltenham – is set to start the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race.
On top of that, the races switch from Channel 4 to ITV and later 5.15pm start time – after most football matches have finished – are expected to give it a further boost.
Bookies expect one in four Brits to place at least one bet on the race.
Course bosses expect 150,000 people at Aintree, Liverpool, over the next three days.
They will sup 300,000 pints, 8,000 bottles of champagne and up to 25,000 cocktails cooled by 1,813,000 ice cubes.
For the first time, the winning owner will celebrate with Coates & Seely English sparkling wine instead of French bubbly.
Paul Binfield, of Paddy Power, said: “This year’s National has been the most popular for ages. It’s the draw of Tiger Roll .”
Nicola McGeady, of Ladbrokes, said: “All betting records are expected to be torn up on Grand National day.”
Glorious Goodwood
Who would be anywhere but England in a heatwave ? And where, in England, could be better than Goodwood – one of the most beautiful racecourses in the world – during Glorious week ? Never could the adjective commonly attached to the week have been more appositely applied.
And whilst Churchill’s dictum on Champagne – that in Victory it’s deserved; in defeat, required – was as true as ever as we made our scorching way back from the betting stalls, never was its cool qualitiy to refresh, too, more in evidence.
Corks popped continuously throughout the week, in greater numbers than we have ever seen, with Coates & Seely and Veuve Clicquot at the heart of this great British tradition of racing and style.
Hampton Court Real Tennis Championships
Coates & Seely were delighted to sponsor the sparkling wine at this year’s Real Tennis Champions Trophy, hosted at the Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Court.
The Royal Court at Hampton Court was first built for cardinal Wolsey in 1526 and the current court contains one of the original walls and a further three walls built for Charles I in 1625. A succession of British monarchs have played real tennis on these courts – including Charles II, William II and Price Albert, and Her Majesty The Queen remains the club’s Patron to this day. Henry VIII – a keen (and reputedly highly competitive) player himself – would certainly have recognised the game today, which has changed very little since Tudor times.
Real tennis professionals from around the world – including Australia, the US, France and the UK – converged on Hampton Court in the week immediately after Wimbledon to compete for this prestigious trophy. Entertainment – both on the court and off – was never far at hand, and Coates & Seely wines were served throughout, beginning at the opening dinner in the magnificent Great Hall, built by Henry VIII at the heart of the Tudor Court, and ending in the Palace gardens on a blistering hot July afternoon, where they provided cool refreshment to all and a fitting celebration for the winner.
https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/explore/royal-tennis-at-hampton-court/
The Coates & Seely Fillies’ Handicap Stakes at Goodwood
The second running of the Coates & Seely Fillies’ Handicap Stakes was run in brilliant sunshine, against the usual rolling chalk downlands of Goodwood in the background, on the 8th June.
Ian Williams-trained Pretty Jewel came out victorious in a thrilling finish, cheered on by most of the Coates & Seely box-guests who had backed the winner.
The celebrations, fuelled with copious quantities of Coates & Seely sparkling wines, continued deep into the evening as Example took centre stage in the parade ring and entertained thousands of race-goers long into the night.