Can mr thick turn around Newbury?

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Can’t remember a course getting such bad press lately and it’s new top man Julian thick sure has his work cut out and the omens aren’t good.
He was in charge of kempton when they built that wretched sand track and wanted to cease jumping and whilst at aintree he scrapped the well used park&ride service.
Newbury should be the best course in the country but it’s far from that, it’s alienated it’s race goers in favour of pop fans and then did the same to them,stopped jumps fans from going down to the fences but worst of all they are now building houses and flats all over the car parks creating chaos!
Will be interesting to see how things go

[Lingfield]

After the recent dress code fiasco, more issues yesterday according to a poster on Betfair Community:-

Come racing! Arrived 40 minutes before first race. Didn’t see it ….still in a queue to get in. A queue stretching a good 200 yards into the car park, trying to get through a single turnstile. Other turnstiles blocked off with the legend: "turnstile closed." The gatekeeper of the sole turnstile then abandoned his post to chase after a punter who had not paid the correct amount. When he returned 5 minutes later, he still couldn’t admit punters because there were no more tickets. We were left whistling outside while the first race began. A manager turned up wearing a Newbury racecourse brown jacket. He reassured us that it was not his fault, "it’s nothing to do with me." He told us that there were only 8000 at the meeting last year, so there should have been no problems. But there were..
Once inside, faced by hoards of luminous jacketed stewards scouring tattersalls steppings looking for coffee drinkers to humiliate into drinking their beverages elsewhere.
Perhaps if these employees were asked to man extra turnstiles then punters might have seen the first two races. If this racecourse is trying to alienate racegoers it couldn’t be doing a better job. Perhaps they just want to turn the whole place into an apartment ghetto and do away with racing altogether?

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