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The Jockey Club have announced they are abolishing dress codes at their 15 racecourses. Good news in my opinion.
Beat me to it Ken! The attached link explains more.
I agree it is a good decision. I just hope they say what they mean about the exception for fancy dress. Don’t want racing to become like cricket.
Now if only there was something that could be done about groups of lads shouting and bawling after drinking 10 pints of lager and girls screeching and falling over after a glass of prosecco.
Behaviour is a far more significant issue than attire and a significant factor in why lots of people will not set foot in a racecourse at the weekend or some of the larger midweek meetings.
‘Now if only there was something that could be done about groups of lads shouting and bawling after drinking 10 pints of lager’
Sniffer dogs on the gate. They wouldn’t be able to drink half as much if they weren’t stuffing half a gram of powder up their noses at the same time.
Wish I could girls falling over after just one glass!
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I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysLets hope that those that used to enforce dress rules get the memo….the only thing I worry about is that the following quote of ‘dress as you feel most comfortable and confident’ is open to interpretation…I understand offensive outfits be it either fancy dress or a slogan on a top being no go but why no replica sports shirts
Can we expect at some point to see guys in the height of the summer season rock up wearing a vest, bright bermuda shorts and flip flops? Or women in a bikini with a sarong as cover?
I’ll still be mostly not there.
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‘I understand offensive outfits be it either fancy dress or a slogan on a top being no go but why no replica sports shirts’
Darts has a similar rule and drinking there is practically mandatory. If even darts is doing it then racing is well advised following suit.
They do tend to have sniffer dogs at most of the bigger meetings. They certainly did at Ascot, Newmarket, Kempton and Doncaster last year.
Still doesn’t explain the rationale behind not being able to wear a replica sports shirt…what is offensive about that?
I assume it is because it clearly identifies someone as a football fan and they do not want to run the risk of fans of rival clubs fighting each other.
Sorry to single it out as an example but would Rangers and Celtic shirts be a good idea at Hamilton Park?
As opposed to having them turn up to the racecourse in civvies and then still having too many sherbets and fighting anyway, I guess at least then the racecourse can stand behind plausible deniability.
With the amount of young drunken people attracted to the bar, someone could be a sitting duck innocently wearing a football shirt. I think its a fair enough call
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Shirts or no shirts, football ‘fans’ will have scraps (and it is largely football ‘fans’ despite the ban on all sports shirts*) but in my opinion you would be fanning the flames by allowing them to be worn.
*I say this as a fan of football amongst many other sports, it is not a sneer. I, like most others, do not consider fighting and cocaine to be part of the experience.
There are plenty of pubs that do not allow football colours to be worn. Racecourses are not out of line.
Is it really a hardship to not wear a football shirt to something that is not a football match?
No more of a hardship than following a dress code which for most general/grandstand enclosure entry isn’t I feel overly strict.
Sandown Park dress code was previously – ‘For the racecourse’s Premier Enclosure it is smart casual. Collared shirts on men (including polo shirts and polo necked jumpers) are preferred and jeans are acceptable as long as they’re not torn’.
I have always worn variations of that type of clothing along with a smart black pair of slip on Sketchers (very comfortable) or if I was in the Grandstand Enclosure a pair of trainers and never had an issue that I was being unfairly asked to dress a certain way.
As I said I don’t have an issue with the new position but you are leaving it open to an individuals own subjectivity to the wording of “dress as you feel most comfortable and confident” which may not marry up with what the racecourse would see it as…..if there is a difference of opinion what happens then, can the course still refuse admission into a particular enclosure?
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