As part of their 350th anniversary year celebrations Newmarket Racecourses ‘the home of horseracing’ teamed up with Luxury Network UK members for their recent Dubai Future Champions Festival.

Ultra luxury cruise specialists Hapag-LLloyd offered an 18 night cruise from Mauritius to Dubai as a free draw prize open to every visitor purchasing a ticket to the Dubai Festival on 7/8th October. Worth almost £16,000, the coveted cruise is to be hosted on board the company’s Europa 2 vessel which was voted the world’s highest rated cruise ship in 2016 . The lucky winning ticket was drawn by Hapag-Lloyd’s International Sales Director and presented at the end of the race meeting with attendant media coverage.

As a popular element of the Dubai Future Champions Festival, Newmarket’s Style Awards attract the best dressed ladies at the meeting and an array of prestigious prizes are awarded to the most stylish race-goer and two runners up. Luxury Network members Whitehouse Cox & Co, manufacturers of English handmade leather goods provided a range of top quality leather items, whilst African travel specialists Smokesilver Travel offered a Kenyan safari break.

Luxury Network members were invited to join the Chairman and Committee of Newmarket Racecourses and Great British Racing International to enjoy VIP hospitality during the event and were invited in to the paddocks and to inspect the Royal Box.

Horseracing is the second biggest spectator sport in the UK and Newmarket Racecourses attract over 330,000 visitors each season, including international owners and trainers.