Musselburgh Racecourse

Additional British races have been added to Horse Racing Ireland's IRE Incentive scheme. IRE Incentive races will be held at Nottingham, Newbury, Pontefract, York, Musselburgh, Salisbury and Goodwood in August and September. The IRE Incentive scheme awards a €10,000 Irish Sales voucher to the owners of Irish-bred winners of designated races. Vouchers can be spent on Irish-breds at Irish public auction Sales. Since the scheme launched in March 2021, €480,000 in vouchers has been distributed to 39 individual owners. Find out more about the IRE Incentive scheme and view a...

Winless in two prior starts, John Dance's Disco Beats (GB) (Pearl Secret {GB}) nonetheless went postward at short odds for Wednesday's British Stallion Studs EBF Median Auction Maiden S. at Musselburgh and justified 6-5 favouritism to become the first winner for his Chapel Stud-based freshman sire (by Compton Place {GB}). 1st-Musselburgh, £6,400, Mdn, 7-1, 2yo, 5f 1yT, 1:00.09, gd. DISCO BEATS (GB) (c, 2, Pearl Secret {GB}--Indigo Beat {GB}, by Tamayuz {GB}) was winless in two prior outings, going postward here as the 6-5 favourite coming back off a June...

Musselburgh Racecourse has been granted another temporary license by the British Horseracing Authority in the hopes that it can get a deal done with Chester Racecourse to take over its operation, Racing Post reports. The Scottish course's previous temporary license expired on May 1. A joint statement from the BHA and Musselburgh owner East Lothian Council read, "The extension has been approved in order to give sufficient time for the complications that have arisen in the deal to appoint a third party operator due to the coronavirus pandemic to be...