Event Details

Update 17/2/26

Rain may have stopped racing – including the historic Royal Artillery Gold Cup – but it won’t stop the Gunner family.

The Sandown Gathering will go ahead this Thursday, 19 February 2026 at Sandown Park Racecourse.

All regiments will be represented, the Master Gunner’s reception continues, Surrey Hall will be full of our serving and veteran community, and we’ll be entertained by the superb 19th Regiment Royal Artillery – The Scottish Gunners Pipes and Drums.

Facilities remain open (including the TOTE for live UK racing elsewhere).

Sandown Park will refund already-purchased tickets as there will be no entry fee for the Gold Cup Gunner Gathering.

See you there. Ubique.

The Royal Artillery Gold Cup, first run in 1862 and one of the oldest events in the horseracing calendar and a flagship day for the Gunners.

Regiments will again be setting up co-located focal points, within a dedicated Gunner area, this time in the Surrey Hall, which forms part of the main concourse on the ground floor. This venue puts the Regiment very much at the centre of the day, with immediate access to the racecourse and bookies on one side and to the Parade rings and the Winner Enclosure on the other. It also makes a range of catering outlets more easily available, with convenient bars and food outlets, providing greater choice and the opportunity to have a drink and meet with friends.

Serving and retired members of the Regiment will be able to meet fellow Gunners in the Surrey Hall, but there will also be an option to book a two-course buffet lunch in The Gallery, which is on the first floor of the Grandstand and has its own bar and views over the track.

Please see the poster for full details.