{"id":959331,"date":"2026-05-14T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:16:12","slug":"musselburgh-to-host-silver-arrow-contest-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959331\/","title":{"rendered":"Musselburgh to host Silver Arrow contest this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  On Saturday, members of the Royal Company of Archers will compete for the Silver Arrow at Musselburgh Racecourse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This historic event, first recorded in 1603, actually precedes the formation of the Royal Company of Archers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, since 1676, the annual contest has been restricted to members of the Royal Company.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The participants are expected to arrive at the racecourse at 1.30pm, with the shoot occurring afterwards, and the coveted trophy presentation happening at about 5pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This year&#8217;s event has the added significance of marking 350 years since the formation of the Royal Company of Archers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Royal Company of Archers will exercise their rights as Freemen of the Burgh by parading through the town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The parade, scheduled to start at 5.30pm, begins from Musselburgh Racecourse and heads to the Brunton Hall via Millhill to Linkfield Road, High Street, Bridge Street and North High Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police Scotland will control traffic throughout the parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, members of the Royal Company of Archers will compete for the Silver Arrow at Musselburgh Racecourse.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-959331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116573122874830336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}