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We were delighted to recently announce our first ever Equine Ambassador, Side Glance, who will form a central part of the Ascot Racecourse Supports programme, helping to engage people in the sport of horse racing and showcase the life that racehorses live once they finish racing. Formerly a top-level winning racehorse owned by Sheikh Fahad and trained by Andrew Balding, Side Glance raced 40 times between 2009 and 2015, running around the world in Britain, Australia, America, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Dubai. That included ten appearances at Ascot itself, including winning the Paradise Stakes on this card in 2011 and finishing third behind the mighty Frankel in the 2012 Queen Anne Stakes

Now 16-years-old, he has been enjoying a new career based with Leanne White at Kingsclere who looked after him throughout his racing days He was initially retrained for showing and in recent years has been learning dressage while Leanne also uses him regularly as part of her work as an Instructor for the National Horseracing College

Now he is helping Ascot Racecourse to develop important links with the local community as part of the Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) initiative Horses For Courses.

The scheme is being rolled out across the country and for Ascot in particular, Side Glance will offer people the chance to interact more closely with racehorses and learn about what they do when they finish racing.

He has already welcomed a group of school children from Ascot Heath Primary to Ascot on 23rd March as part of a behindthe-scenes tour of the racecourse. He will appear at similar events throughout the year and also on specific racedays, most notably when Ascot race on Saturday 9th September which is the start of National Racehorse Week.

Side Glance will also play a central role in the 2023 Royal Ascot marketing campaign which went live recently, appearing on one of the still image adverts