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I am going to Chester on Friday. Have never been as I life in the West Country. Does anyone have any tips on jockeys / trainers to follow or good viewing spots.
It’s not a track I know much about other than a low draw seems beneficial?
Thanks in advance.
Martin
If you want my advice – stay at home, unless you’re happy being surrounded by Scouse pi$$heads.
For a slightly more balanced view, here is my review of the course
http://www.ors-racing.co.uk/PDF/Chester%20Final.pdf
Don’t expect to see much of the racing, expect large queues to do anything and be prepared to say you’ll never go racing there again.
You’ll probably have a more enjoyable time watching everything from the walls surrounding the course, you don’t have to pay to enter the course, there is much better viewing of the races and you don’t have to put up with any of the p***heads!
Oh dear! Not the response I was looking for.
On the plus side I dont have a wife so am not gonna get into trouble for looking
Martin
On the plus side I dont have a wife so am not gonna get into trouble for looking
Martin
Trust me you could get in
serious
trouble just for looking
I shouldn’t gloat at your predicament too much – my annual visit to Chester may well be this Saturday – at least I will get it out of the way – and I’m beginning to dread it already.
Ah Martin, what a pity you didn’t visit the Roodeye 30 odd years ago. Then, you would have had a great view of all the track (well, 95%) from whatever ring. The place wouldn’t have been chok-a-blok with lads whose only intention is to get bevvied; and short-skirted, low-cut-bloused bimbos gambling not on the horses, but on whether their next (met at the racecourse) one-night-stand partner will give them a new kind of STD.
The course had a sense of history. The oldest surviving thoroughbred racetrack in the UK. Roman quayside walls backing on to the home straight: the base of a Roman sandstone cross still visible inside the course (roodeye = "Island of the cross") Most of the punters could tell one end of a horse from another. Those days are gone sadly.
If you want to get bladdered and laid, Chester is the course (and, in all fairness, the ladies (most of them)are real head- turners and still leave me (even at my age) foaming at the mouth.
On the plus side, the catering – although dear – is head-and-shoulders above the everyday dross one associates with race tracks.
Chester racecompany wants the corporate pound. Any suggestion that we live in times of austerity goes out of the window when visting the Roodeye. The Race Company has sold its soul for the corporate pound. It’s hugely successful but somewhere along the line, its’ racing-soul died. I seldom go anymore (only when a family nag is running). (And I have to grudgingly admit that the owners-and-trainers are treated like royalty.; the food is top-notch)
If you want the names of places in the city centre where you can have a great pint / great meal without being ripped off, just ask. I sometimes work in the city and know where to go to avoid hoi-polloi!).
If you were an investor and wanted to buy into a company that maximised its margins then Chester is the tops. If you just want a quiet days racing where you can study the horses in the pre-parade ring in comfort and get a tote bet that’s not taking you for a mug, then it’s the wrong course sadly.Thank you for such a detailed response. I’m only going as it looks great on the tv and I’ve got some free badges. As you say, not really what I’m looking for. My local track is exeter which is very good. Everybody really into their racing and I know the local trainers, down, dartnall, kittow etc.
Anyway never mind I will go to Chester and enjoy the evening with my mates. Better than working surely!?
Thanks again
Martin
There’s nothing I enjoy more than a sit-in-a-line saloon bar sup, moan and chesty cough with my fellow miserable old gits Osterbeast and Insomniac – the Foggy, Clegg and Compo of TRF, in any order you choose
– but this is just too, too negativeChester racecourse is essentially a charming little course set in one of the great cities of our sceptred isle
Get there early before the
jeunesse dorée
of Merseyside descend and bathe in the history and vista
I’ve been to about half the UK courses and each has at least something to offer; variety is the spice of life and British racecourses, enjoy them while we still can
A Friday night crawl around Chester’s watering holes doesn’t appeal now but it did once when young and slightly dafter. Hope you pull, don’t forget the packet of three
Love Haldon by the way; the antithesis of Chester cf. fourth para above
I am going to Chester on Friday. Have never been as I life in the West Country. Does anyone have any tips on jockeys / trainers to follow or good viewing spots.
It’s not a track I know much about other than a low draw seems beneficial?
Thanks in advance.
Martin
hi martin – i live 10 mins away from the course and go there on average 3 meetings a year
sad to hear people say its full of scouse pi@@sheads as actually
its a real mix of northern and southern these days and like any course thats situated in a city it will attract party goersOver the years ive certainly learnt which jockeys and trainers to follow and the best ever jockey for me was Richard Mullen
i somehow learnt to no which rides he would win or get placed on
sadly he rides abroad nowMy advice is the old ledgend Franny Norton he no,s the track so well – if he is riding for mark johnston then focus on that and if the capibility is there then its worth a bet
other than johnston – dandy nichols does well there too
Tom Dascombe – Richard Kingscote is on fire at chester so far this season so again check formdont worry too much about the high draw on 6f its mainly 5f were things get a bit tight on the bend – remember the horse has to be good out the stalls anyway
have a great day and goodluck – des
Hi
I had a fantastic time, mainly from your kind advice and others. Got there early so was able to have a proper look around before as you rightly predicted the crowds arrived. The track is gorgeous and paddock area is brilliant, great to get up close to the horses.
Trying to get a beer was a nightmare, had to pay out at the bottle bar all night which was dearer as didn’t want to miss the racing. The main bar needs some organising, maybe someone pouring the drinks and lining them up instead of taking individual orders. Similar to cheltenham. I like a drink but would not refer to myself as a pisshead
With regard to the racing only backed one winner (thanks to des) dandy Nichols horse but was 8/1 so good shout. I didn’t appreciate how undulating the track was around the final bend not as noticeable on tv.
Weather was shocking, women were fit.
Really enjoyed it.
Martin
– but this is just too, too negative
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