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Does anyone know or know where I can find out, the capacity of the UK’s racecourses? Not in great detail, just the maximum number of punters they can cram in.
Try typing "racecourse capacities" into Google, I found a lot of results trying that myself.
Try typing "racecourse capacities" into Google, I found a lot of results trying that myself.
My opening post is actually top of the list of search results, never a good sign.
I’m actually looking for how many people the actual courses hold, not the restaurants.
Any sensible answers?
Are Friday and Saturday nights on the winter well attended at Dunstall Park?
I’m gonna have a bit of that when Chelsea are away in the midlands one Sat, looks fun
Okay, I know this is still attendances rather than capacity, but it is more interesting.
N’ket had 14,089 for the 2000 Guineas.
Goodwood had 13,738 for the same day.
Was that when the free entry promotion was going on?
Interesting question. I suppose the capacities of some courses can be ascertained just by dint of looking for the reports along the lines of "we had a sell-out x-thousand crowd for day one of the Festival", etc. The chances of reading that about many of our courses must be slim to nil, however.
I’d love to know how many people somewhere like Cartmel is actually allowed to hold (for limits imposed by police or with regard to public safety concerns are presumably the determiners). They had 20,000 there yesterday, and have certainly had 21,000 in the past as well, yet on neither occasion was this explicitly flagged up as being a capacity crowd. Room for a few more there then, perhaps!
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I’d imagine that the total capacity at Cartmel would be skewed because they open up the centre course. An area that large would, in theory, push it up to 50,000+
Then there’s Pontefract where half the crowd could quite easily having a freebie in the park!
The three US tracks with Triple Crown races have to account for the enormous crowds that come out one day a year. Pimlico has an attendance capacity of about 120,000, including the infield which is open on certain stakes days. The record attendance is 121,263 for the 2007 Preakness. The recently expanded Churchill Downs grandstand has seating for 51,000, but crowds of over 150,000 cram into it, the track apron, and infield on Derby day. Belmont Park has the largest grandstand in the world, holding over 100,000 with seating for 33,000. Its record attendance was 120,139, also in 2007 (with a Triple Crown on the line). On typical weekdays at Belmont 5,000 or so people turn out, with 15,000 on weekends, more when the weather’s nice. Other US tracks generally hold between 30,000 and 50,000 people. I think the lowest attendance I’ve seen was 400 at a little harness track, and the lowest at a TB track would be 900.
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