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That’ll really encourage families to go along to the races.
I think it was Aintree where I had my bag searched for food and drink and a woman in front of me had food confiscated.
Another shot in the foot for racing. A sports track where men try to get half-ton animals leaping fences at 30mph bans picnics on ‘health & safety’ grounds.
F*&*c*g idiots
Sue Nicholson, from Whitley Bay, said: "You can take a picnic to Glyndebourne, you can take one to Ascot, but you can’t take a picnic to Newcastle Racecourse? Who do they think they are?"
Quite!
They are providing extra food outlets though
Yeah £4.00 for a hot dog with cold onions no doubt.
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Sue Nicholson, from Whitley Bay, said: "You can take a picnic to Glyndebourne, you can take one to Ascot, but you can’t take a picnic to Newcastle Racecourse? Who do they think they are?"
Quite!
Maybe it’s something to do with the old saying about "Taking Coleslaw to Newcastle"?
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
I think someone is taking the coleslaw!
Nothing to do with Elf & Safety, plenty to do with making racegoers put their hands in their pockets for food & drink!
Is this not something that’s creeping in more and more at sporting events?
I say that as a rugby fan who’s experienced silly rules being brought in lately, out of the hands of the club I support.
Think it will spread around others unfortunately….health & safety going bonkers!
Myself and my family went to Perth racecourse about 5 years ago and were refused entry with our pic nic as they weren’t aloud the steward on the gate explained it was because food venders paid a lot of money to sell there food at the racecourse and it was not fair on them if people brought in there own food and this was on there family day were they were putting on displays and entertainment for families
I applaud Newcastle – I don’t want families at racecourses either.
Racecourses should be the sole domain of Neeky blokes who inhabit internet forms and speak rudely to each other and equestrian women who love horses and like to have fifty pence each way on them.
This modern practice of attracting normal people to the races for alfresco drinking sessions is equally appalling.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Sue Nicholson, from Whitley Bay, said: "You can take a picnic to Glyndebourne, you can take one to Ascot, but you can’t take a picnic to Newcastle Racecourse? Who do they think they are?"
Quite!
Maybe it’s something to do with the old saying about "Taking Coleslaw to Newcastle"?
Clever stuff, Steve. Was trying to pun my way through it too, and couldn’t come up with ‘owt, though I did like some of the tweets mentioning a ‘blanket ban on picnics)
Pretty sure the customers will vote with their feet ….just mind blowingly stupid …take a bow Newcastle , you are the envy of the world ….the sign outside says , Families stay away , we just do not care !!!
Just how did they get to make this decision , implement it , without anybody in their management structure laughing it into the wastepaper bin !!!
The management probably got fed up with the family’s complaining about the paying drunks rowdy behaviour and foul language.
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Clever stuff, Steve. Was trying to pun my way through it too, and couldn’t come up with ‘owt, though I did like some of the tweets mentioning a ‘blanket ban on picnics)
You photographers better nic a few pics while you still can
Will this do?
No not really, I agree
Far better to keel over from a skin-full of overpriced, warm, flat racecourse ale (probably served by a temp on minimum wage) than let working class families picnic on your lawn.
"Good management" and "Sporting Institution" shouldn’t appear in any sentence relating to Geordieland these days.
A boycott would be sound.
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