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I love going to Chelters for the non festival meets as you get a decent crowd (but not the ridiculous overcrowding at the festival) the racing is of a decent standard still and it costs a third of the price.<br>Festival is a no brainer at those prices for me I’m afraid.<br>I can do all three days of the Ebor meet for the cost of one day at the Cheltenham festival.
Quote: from Maxilon 5 on 1:20 pm on Dec. 22, 2006[br]The Cheltenham executive are clearly up on their micro-economics. ÂÂÂ
Cheltenham tickets are Giffen goods, where demand increases in line with increased price as consumers attach their own added value to ownership of the ticket. (Snob/exclusivity value, or "I was there" value).  They’ll rise next year too.
I have to agree with Pengamon. American horse racing is THE best sporting value available. It’s unbelievable, like paying two and six to see your local football team donkeys back. In some cases, (Delaware Park), it’s free. <br>
Ah yes Giffen Goods. Yes you are exactly right the more the prices go up the more the demand increases. However is there not a cut-off point as some point? The tickets will sell out up to a certain point, but when it gets to the point of insanity then surely demand has to fall? I call it snob factor too but thats only because I can’t afford to go ;). The ticket prices price me out of the market but I can’t blame them for charging so much – I mean if you charge whatever you want for the biggest horse racing event of the year then you are not going to make them cheap are you?
Almost didn’t get to Ascot today – nearly crashed the car when Cornelius Wotsit, in his Five Live Dubai preview, described Sir Percy as an "impressive Derby winner" or words to that effect but I’m glad I made the effort…..
£7 for the car park
£25 to get into "premium" enclosure
£8.20 for a pint of Fosters and a Vodka and tonic
No bookmakers in front of the stand (a taste of 2012?) because Sebastian s**t
forbrains-Architect had never been racing before he designed the new wind tunnel (grandstand)Roll on Thursday and Ludlow – a proper racecourse
Agree unreservedly on all points. Ascot – the perfect place to go racing, if you really really don’t like racing that is.
For all its faults (and there were many), there was far more heart, soul, user-friendliness and VFM at the hailstorm-lashed, low-grade point-to-point meeting I attended at Ystradowen today than the White Elephant of Berkshire.
Roll on next Saturday and Dingley – another proper venue.
gc<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
£8.20 for a pint of Fosters and a Vodka and tonic
<br>Still mixing your drinks then Mounty? :biggrin:
Mike
Quote: from Mounty on 8:01 am on April 1, 2007[br]Every time Mike – take my own lighter fluid next time.
Nah, you won’t smuggle it through the gate!
Well, if you’d given someone a lift Mounty then it might’ve only cost you a fiver for the carpark – my passenger stumped up £2 for the carpark!!! :biggrin:
(and naturally the only way forward is to bulldoze your way into a box [after you discover the right box number that is when someone tries to put you away by telling you the wrong number!!!!] and blag a free drink! ;) )
In your opinion and experience, which racecourses have decent racing on without fleecing you for ticket prices.
I think Market Rasen is run exceptionally well and is very good value for money too.
Sandown often seems expensive for the class of racing that is often shown there, and Newcastle seems expensive too.
Cant really agree about Sandown. £17 for tingle creek Grandstand is fair enough (hardly worth paying more for members there) Tolworth hurdle day is £15.
Best value meeting is Champions day at Newmarket. Worst value is Royal Ascot
Happy Valley in Hong Kong. Entrance into the members is free if you show your passport going in. Beer 1.60 a pint. Great viewing from the gigantic grandstands. Huge crowds but doesn’t feel crowded. Free racecard. Very exciting to watch horses race on turf at night under floodlights.
and hot black pepper kebabs for about £2, which are simply beautiful
I loved Happy Valley
Best value:
As already stated Towcester ‘cos it is free.
If you don’t mind A/W Kempton frequently have £1 & £5 deals, which are hard to beat.
Others are Beverley Grandstand £12, Catterick Tatts £11 and Cartmel course £9
However the best "free" is the Epsom Hill on Derby day, admission is free (as long as you don’t take your car onto the hill) and the atmosphere is great.
Worse Value
Most "festival" meetings, especially Royal Ascot
However for ‘day to day’ meetings the absolute worse value, by miles, is the County Enclosure at Chester.
Yep, Towcester has been free entry for every meeting since it reopened in 2004, apart from Boxing Day and Easter Monday ones.
I had another very enjoyable, very cheap time of it in there yesterday (even before bumping into Happy Jack and Zome, which then made it absochuffinglutely ace).
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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