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Those nice people at Great Leighs have just sent me an email about there new website
On the site you can become a member or buy tickets hey anyone want to take the risk and buy an advance ticket to Great Leighs? What date shall we choose how about 3 May 2050 should be open by then surely, anyway heres the link if you wanna be a devil and get a ticket early.
Note the opening date of "soon"
Does anyone know what is delaying things ? Has the money run out ?
And does anyone know what standard of racing we can expect ?
Are we talking Southwell esque action here ?
Allegedly the wet winter stopped building work and persumably the wet summer hasnt helped, or to put it in a better way who the hell knows probably they dont even know, whatever is wrong its a big massive cock up.
Have you seen what they are charging for membership – £500?
I’m hurting now – I laughed so much!!!
As they keep saying on their web site – "….. only in Essex"
Five hundred squid?
"Only in Essex" indeed! Even the death-burgers at Marks Tey point-to-point next door don’t cost that much…
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hey the £500 may be the price when it eventually opens in a few centuries time £500 will be worthless by then.
£300 for a 2008 "Season Ticket" isn’t too bad for 77 days (so they say..) incl of racecard
Good value if you’re an AW junkie with loads of free time
I can’t seem to figure out what the difference is between being a member and buying a season ticket.
Even so I have to say I would not pay 300p for a season ticket – but then again my love
of AW racing could be behind that.I can’t seem to figure out what the difference is between being a member and buying a season ticket.
From a personal point of view I hope they aren’t going to have Members Badges as I have collected the badges of all 59 existing courses, which have been beautifully framed by my other half. Lets hope they have those cardboard things.
£300 for a 2008 "Season Ticket" isn’t too bad for 77 days (so they say..) incl of racecard
Good value if you’re an AW junkie with loads of free time
I think i’ll take the 36 day Saratoga pass for £40 instead
Pengamon,
Saratoga does seem remarkably well priced. I was just looking at ticket prices for the Breeders’ Cup Chase day at Far Hills and general admission is 100 dollars with car parking at 30 dollars!
The twisted side of me is already thinking that there could be some interesting racing double-headers for me this coming winter; Saturday afternoon spent at a point-to-point at Marks Tey, Higham or Ampton followed by an evening at Great Leighs.
Mark you, a former Sportsman colleague of mine once managed to take in four meetings on one FA Cup Final Saturday (Bangor, Bredwardine ptp, Warwick and Wolvo, It think) in the mid-90s, so I’d still have some way to go to emulate that.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Although whats been (not) occuring at Great Leighs has had an element of comedy about it maybe, isnt it a bit strange taht so many seem to be taking delight in that?
Shouldnt we be reassured that racecourses are opening rather than closing? So what if the AW low grade stuff isnt for everyone (including me). Its spreading the live sport to a part of the country which should support it well…and that can only be for the overall good
Isnt it all gonna come crashing down eventually weve got Manchester coming soon some courses are gonna feel the pinch. 61 racecourses do we really need that many?
Arguably it comes in waves, Steve. I don’t quite think any Forumites were around in the first 30 years of last century, but back then you had many new courses opening (up to and including Taunton in 1927) at the same time as equally many (Scarborough, Hooton Park, Shincliffe, Pickering, etc. in the North alone) were shutting up shop.
If the opening of Great Leighs, New Manchester and wherever else (Ffos Las? Clitheroe?) in the next decade coincides with the closure of Hexham (the odds must have shortened in the last week, sad to say) and a few other tracks, then this would simply represent another reshuffling of the racing landscape, however tragic the lost of such as the aforementioned Northumberland course would be to many of us.
The figure of 61 courses still compares unfavourably quantity-wise to where we were up to 45 years ago – since then, Old Manchester, Birmingham, Lincoln, Wye, Woore, Bogside, Lanark, Rothbury, Alexandra Palace, Hurst Park, Buckfastleigh, Teesside Park and doubtless others (I’ve not got the Chris Pitt book in front of me just now
) have all vanished without replacement. Several of these were once-a-year courses, and of course there weren’t anything like the same number of meetings being run 10, 20, 30 or more years ago; but couched simply in terms of numbers of racecourses open at present, the figure is superficially at least at its most manageable pretty much ever.Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
of AW racing could be behind that.
) have all vanished without replacement. Several of these were once-a-year courses, and of course there weren’t anything like the same number of meetings being run 10, 20, 30 or more years ago; but couched simply in terms of numbers of racecourses open at present, the figure is superficially at least at its most manageable pretty much ever.
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