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Former Jags man Mark Roberts shot Ayr ahead on five minutes with an audacious shot from 50 yards after a miscued clearance from goalkeeper Jonny Tuffey.
The Thistle keeper made amends when he tipped over a shot from Ryan Stevenson.
Simon Donnelly levelled on 21 minutes when he drilled home a clever cut-back from Mark Corcoran.
The early scores were the only ones with the match finishing 1-1 after 90 minutes, although Ayr did ride their luck late on to keep the score that way.
For the second season running Ayr issued the first of a season of special programmes. The Ayr United official website describes this seasons programme thus;
'As befits a team going into the first Division and celebrating it's centenary, Ayr United has revamped the squad and now revamped the programme for 2009/10. Keeping many of the popular features from previous years including the Stats, Academy News, Community Updates, Manager's Comments and Commercial Reports the Club are delighted to announce some new signings. It's a bigger size than previous years -beefed up to 28 full colour pages and to B5. New features will include In Depth Player Interviews, an A to Z Feature from the current squad, full colour Player Pull Out in the centre pages, Centenary Event Updates and full colour spreads on the Visiting Team. Alongside regular team members, without whom programmes wouldn't be the same - editor Duncan Carmichael and his encyclopaedic knowledge; Dave Sargent with the best pics in Scottish football; Davie White updating our ever expanding Community events; John Dalton providing progress reports on Scotland's unique Football academy -AUFA - we are delighted to welcome new signings to the programme squad, Associate Director Douglas McKenzie who shall be keeping everyone updated on the progress of our Centenary Plans and Events, and life long Ayr fan, Donald C Stewart who shall provide the player interviews, A to Zs and a new column - Penned In - written from within the Panda Pen where he and his daughter regularly sit! '
OH DID WE MENTION THAT THE COVER PRICE REMAINS £2.
Second Division prices for a First Class programme.'
So get out there and buy it - it is worth it.