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    apracing
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    As a look at the finances of the festival, I thought it might be interesting to track the amounts that the course are collecting in entry fees, all of which they keep.

    We now have the entries in for all of the 11 Grade 1 races. The initial entry fee, already paid, amounts to 25% of the total that owners pay to actually run in those races. A further 50% is collected in mid February, the final 25% at the six day declaration stage.

    The inital entry fees have contributed £136,400 to the Cheltenham bottom line – approximately one quarter of which has been paid by owners of horses in the Willie Mullins stable.

    If you opt out at any stage, the fees already paid are not refunded. If you are eliminated at the final declaration stage because the race has a maximum field, then they are refunded, but the chances of that happening in any of the Grade 1 races is very small.

    #1678415
    Tizaaards Cider
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    £100 to get in to the club enclosure is the most notable entry fee to my mind!

    I’ve actually got the Tuesday off this year and it’s probably the only chance I’ll get to see Constituiton Hill in the flesh.

    I said I wouldn’t be going again after being caught in the Gloucestershire monsoon that prevailed all day on the Wednesday of 2022. I’m still an emotional wreck from that experience.

    And the cost is just frankly taking the piss now! And if people continue to pay it then they will continue with the milking of it!

    #1678431
    Avatar photoCork All Star
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    I wouldn’t pay £100 to go to any race meeting.

    Cheltenham is poor value. Aintree is far better from that perspective.

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    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    I was there that Wednesday Tizz
    I’ve not recovered, even got stopped by the police that day too, wrongly accused of pick pocketing. My jackpot horse Shishkin didn’t run a yard and the weather was just unreal

    I only go as the ticket is paid for from the racing rewards scheme

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1678586
    Landafar
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    Thanks to R4R I shall be there Tues and Weds, fortunately I can rack up some decent points via LHR car parking, which is all work related. I dont use R4R for hotel bookings, prefer direct Hotel schemes and their points.
    120K Holiday inn points would give me a night at the Holiday Inn Express, which is an absurd £800ish for the Tuesday night.
    Ill drive..it improves my thinking being sober. :rose:
    I did once take the train from Banbury to Cheltenham via Birmingham..I now know what cattle class is..
    Best of luck to anyone that goes. :-)

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