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Quote: from graysonscolumn on 3:17 pm on Oct. 18, 2006[br]Hihihihihihi. Not sure "Glorious Great Leighs" has too nifty a ring to it, Corm, but we’ll all get used to it soon enough…..
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It would be a classy event.<br>The local Essex girls in their white stilletos and fake tans. Then off in their Ford Capris to dance round their handbags in a Romford nightclub.<br>Before anyone asks I was born and raised in Essex and lived much of my life there.
I’ve stopped going to the Festival as it was hopeless unless one is a member of Cheltenham and could get onto the ‘golf stand’.
The Tatts (finishing post) is too crowded and has no view, the Tatts (three furlongs) is too far away. The Best Mate enclosure buggered up the great view which it had when it was the Courage.
I suppose Gillespie had to do that because one couldn’t have the best enclosure being the cheapest. Now one can’t see a single big screen from there and for two of the days the finishing line is blocked from view by advertising hoardings.
I’m going there next month and I notice that the prices have been creeping up sufficiently that I almost baulked at the Saturday ticket.
The Festival is losing its charm and is increasingly becoming an exercise in money extraction. No doubt we’ll be seeing novice selling hurdles there soon.
If I had to pay twenty notes to get into the Silver Ring at Newmarket, i’d stop going there too.<br>Cheltenham got too expensive. I just attend the May hunter’s evening meeting nowadays, and maybe the Thomas Pink (or whatever it’s called now).
I’m not sure what it is called this year, to be honest. But at least the Open is a lot friendlier than the Festival and one can natter to random people in the bars without the crush before the racing.
I still find the idea of freezing cold March day at Prestbury Park being given over to Ladies’ Day somewhat a strange concept. Normally these days (the ones that I have seen in the summer) all come with various tents containing strange underlinen and manicures.
My girlfriend is a bit of a point to pointer, all wax jacket and wellingtons and I would hate to think what the average Ladies Day manicurist would say when looking at her nails after she’s wrecked them pulling a few pheasants.
And I would hate to consider what the lingerie tents would sell on this day.
(Edited by Malc Smith at 11:19 pm on Oct. 18, 2006)
Quote: from Malc Smith on 10:36 pm on Oct. 18, 2006[br]I’m not sure what it is called this year, to be honest.  But at least the Open is a lot friendlier than the Festival and one can natter to random people in the bars without the crush before the racing.<br>(Edited by Malc Smith at 11:19 pm on Oct. 18, 2006)<br>
It is a lovely evening, and you can get a proper parking spot in the proper car park right in front of the main gates too :)<br>I hate parking in that bloody field and walking a mile to the course in March. Not to mention that a fiver to park in a bog for three hours is a joke.
Having frozen my arse off at last season’s Festival I can’t imagine there being much flesh/fake tan on show. Perhaps they can hold ‘most sensible coat’ and ‘best co-ordinated scarf/gloves’ competitions.
Oh, there’ll still the underdressed slapper in the Best Mate enclosure with her boyfriend who will gallantly refuse to hand her his jacket.
….time we had a ‘Best Dressed Man’ day don’t you think? , long overdue in my opinion.  Might be pushing the boat out mind, but if they just keep their pants on otherwise bit cold on the old goolies..
(Edited by Lovely Lady at 11:10 am on Oct. 19, 2006)
Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the October meeting (next week) some years ago. Relaxed, quiet(ish) and the amphitheatre of Prestbury Park was at it’s best scenically, ringed by the autumnal hues up on Cleeve Hill.
Certainly more enjoyable than the Festival crush which is an event worth experiencing once and once only if one is prone to panic attacks precipitated by claustrophobia/agoraphobia, cured only by excessive intake of Liffey Liqueur.
I went to the festival for the first time this year and can only describe it as a scrum.. We all agreed after that if we went again we’d pay the money for some proper seats and breathing room.. The York Ebor festival was a much more pleasant experience and i’ll be going back to that.
The only affordable way to get seats is to become a member and then you can sit on the ‘golf stand’ which is perched on the top of the Royal Boxes.
The seats in the main stand cost an absolute fortune; I asked for the price of a ticket once for my mother and I initially thought that I was being quoted for a box not a plastic seat.
If you’re looking for comfort and a place to site at the Festival then you’re back to the sitting at home option.
Don’t you talk about underdressed slappers like that! I’ve never yet met a slut I didn’t like.
Malc Smith, The "golf stand" for Members which you refer to is, I assume, the scaffolding and steps which are erected on the roof of the Tote building. There are NO SEATS up there.
If Members wants a seat during the Festival, they have to pay an extra £30 a day to sit in their own dedicated area in Level 3!   ÂÂÂ
The price for the seats in that Level 3 must have been significantly reduced in price over the past few years unless I was being quoted for something quite different.
Apologies about the golf stand; from what I was told and from what I could see it did look like seating.
So if the prices are ‘only’ £5 per race for the stuff in the level three then that may be the way to go. But I can assure you that I was, perhaps mistakenly, quoted significantly more than that.
No, I’m talking about the Members-only area in Level 3 which the general public can’t access.
I was trying to convey the irony of a situation where Members, as well as having to fork out £270 for their Membership, are expected to pay an additional £30 a day for the privilege of a seat in the area which is supposed to be reserved for them (plus an extra £5 a day to park in their dedicated car park).
I go to Cheltenham for every meeting…You don’t have to dress up like a chav to be a lady enjoy racing…I am a lady, I enjoy racing, its my life, job and my hobbie….<br>I think its a great way to get more females to the track….<br>I wear a nice fitted tweed skirt suit, with a nice blouse or jumper, boots and tights….I sound old…I am just in my 30’s! I have outfits for different times of the year, I also have my posh frocks for Royal Ascot…<br>Its such a mans world, about time us females stood out a little…
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