Gunning for the big prizes at The Champagne Lanson July Festival
Wednesday 1st July, 2009
Stunning Newmarket beauty therapist, Samantha Hills, who is hoping to win one of the big fashion prizes at Newmarket's Champagne Lanson July Festival (Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th July), revealed one of her outfits, when she met crack Australian sprinter Scenic Blast, red hot favourite to land the Festival's big racing prize, the £400,000 Darley July Cup.
As the daughter of top jockey Michael Hills and his wife Chris, Samantha, who turns 18 on Saturday (4th July), has racing is in her blood. She also knows all about glamour, having worked as a model and just finished her training as a beauty therapist. There's nothing she'd love more than to scoop one of the Festival's amazing prizes which will be awarded to the racegoers deemed to be the most stylishly dressed.
Top of her list would be the star prize for the lady wearing the most stylish accessories (hat, shoes, jewellery, handbag, etc.) which will be awarded on the opening day of the Festival on Wednesday 8th July - an unforgettable week on a cocoa plantation on the Caribbean paradise island of St Lucia, courtesy of Hotel Chocolat.
She'd also love to win the 20 night luxury cruise to Dubai and Muscat, courtesy of Premier Travel, which is the star prize for the Best Dressed Couple on Friday 10th July, hence she's bringing her boyfriend, Nick, along on that day. And she certainly wouldn't object to the year's supply of Champagne Lanson which is the star prize for Best Dressed Lady on Lanson Ladies Day on the Thursday - a very appropriate prize given that she'll have just turned 18!
With a midweek break at Champneys' luxury Henlow Grange Spa, a Sporting Weekend at Stapleford Park Country House Hotel and lots of other smaller prizes also on offer, there could be no greater incentive to dress to impress and head to Newmarket for its big summer event!
Scenic Blast, fresh from his Royal Ascot success last week, has remained in Newmarket for a crack at Europe's premier sprint, the Darley July Cup on Friday 10th July, before he returns 'down under'. The way he destroyed a top class field in the King's Stand Stakes has ensured that he'll be many people's idea of a July Festival banker. If we can win Newmarket's big summer prize, he will go a long way to staking his claim to the world champion sprinter's crown.
The Champagne Lanson July Festival is the East of England's answer to Royal Ascot, but on a smaller and more intimate scale. It combines stylish fashion with world class horseracing in a relaxed, garden party atmosphere on Newmarket’s stunningly beautiful July Course, which lies just a few miles east of Cambridge.