Racing and football are all set to come together at Ayr Racecourse’s next meeting in June as the 2-day fixture embraces Scotland’s second World Cup Group C match against African Cup Of Nations Champions Morocco.

Ayr’s Tennent’s World Cup Racenight meeting on Friday 19th features a 7-race card scheduled between 5.30pm and 9pm with Steve Clarke’s Scotland players all set to face Morocco in Boston at 11pm BST. The Scots will already have faced Haiti in their opening match on June 13 with the third and final Group C match to come against Brazil in Miami on Wednesday, June 24.

Racegoers that evening (Friday) will be able to stay with fellow fans to watch the football LIVE in Ayrshire’s Biggest Fan Zone and we’re all hoping that Ayrshire born Clarke will have led his Scotland side to an opening day win over Haiti in the same Boston stadium the previous Saturday.

The racing that night features a 10 furlongs Class 4 handicap worth £12,000 and racegoers returning for our Unite Scotland Summer Raceday the following day (Saturday June 20) can hopefully celebrate a Scotland victory over the “Lions Of Atlas” by enjoying a superb card which features the Listed Land O’Burns Stakes over one of the fastest 5 furlongs tracks in the country.

Plenty of good horses have triumphed in this race in the past, including dual winner Mecca’s Mate (2005/2007) and the subsequent Group 1 winner and record-breaking broodmare sale Marsha, the first of 4 winners in the race for Ayr’s current champion jockey Paul Mulrennan.

This year’s race will be run as the Unite George Ramsay Celebration Land O’Burns Stakes after last year’s contest was won by Jessie Harrington’s Irish raider Saratoga Special at a  massive 50/1!

Second place went to William Haggas’ subsequent Newbury Group 3 winner First Instinct, a now 4 year-old filly which has two big-race entries at Royal Ascot this year, including the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on the same afternoon as this year’s Land O’Burns.

The other main race on the Saturday card is the Unite Natalie Egan Celebration Handicap for the Johnstone Rose Bowl, a prestigious mile and 5 furlongs handicap won last year by Alan King’s Insanity from Ian Williams’ Oneforthegutter, with Jim Goldie’s 9 year-old warrior Faylaq back in third.

Racing from the final day of this year’s Royal Ascot meeting will be shown on the big screens around the course at Ayr all day on Saturday and the post-race entertainment on site will be provided by the fantastic Hot Dub Time Machine.

Check out what Hot Dub Time Machine is bringing to Ayr Racecourse