00:00 Well it's a special night tonight because it's the Saints and Sinners meeting which dates back to 1965.
00:05 A charity night for good causes, small charities benefiting from the proceeds raised from tonight.
00:12 So this is a special night tonight. Hospitality's pretty full, we've got good horses here tonight,
00:18 we've got good jockeys as well and a nice crowd and the weather's nice as well.
00:21 So it's one of the big evening meetings of the year here at Hamilton Park.
00:24 I've been here a few times but it's not the first time I've been in the owners' bit
00:28 so it was quite exciting to see the horse. Mari picked the winner as the best dress
00:32 and she put money on it and it beat mine into second so I'm getting bittersweet
00:36 the memories of that race but listen it was great publicity for a fantastic charity.
00:40 Hamilton's obviously unique in that it races only through the summer months and as you mentioned
00:45 there the crowds here are always fantastic. Really good and they've got such a wide variety
00:50 of different meetings here, different themes, music nights as well. I think the configuration
00:55 of the track helps as well because you know unlike an oval shaped track for example they go down the
01:00 home straight the opposite way to take in the loop to get the distances of the races to get in so the
01:05 crowd can engage a little bit as well. I think the way the paddock's set out it's a very leafy
01:10 sort of woodland area around here, it's full of lawns as well and I think when the weather's nice
01:15 it's just a really relaxing place to come to go racing. I think it's great getting the community
01:20 together as well because where it is and obviously bringing everybody together a nice night make sure
01:26 you come and enjoy yourself. No rain as well. Exactly you know we always get rain in Scotland
01:31 so yeah it's good not to rain. Scottish racing we've seen the successes, Lysander Russell for
01:36 example in the national hunt scene and we've got a lot of top trainers here Jim Goldie in particular
01:41 and Scottish racing's really thriving at the moment. Really good I mean I'll use that dreadful
01:46 phrase really punching above its weight I mean owners have a great experience here at Hamilton
01:50 as you can see behind us they've extended the owners area, they're above prize money levels
01:57 you know the minimum prize money levels here are you've got two meetings here where which is over
02:02 two hundred thousand pounds in prize money so really sort of pandering to the owners.
02:06 Mark Johnson of course one of the the top trainers before he handed over the license
02:11 to his son Charlie he's on the board of directors here so they get good input here
02:16 and as I say the owners are well looked after and if you do that then they send their nice
02:20 horses here and that's why you get the quality of racing that we're seeing tonight. And just
02:24 finally the facilities as well I'm guessing top-notch. Amazing honestly it's been so so good
02:29 we're so glad we came along it's for such a good cause for funding Euro and everybody treated us
02:34 really well so thank you.
