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From up North and went to the Epsom Derby last year and it was amazing. Thinking of going to London again this summer and was wondering what would be better a day at Royal Ascot maybe the tuseday or saturday or the july meeting with the king George Queen Elizabeth stakes and maybe seeing work force again
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Gav, think Ascot are doing some special offers for King George day if you book early
Think the last meeting of the season at Cheltenham is april so their website says, so that won’t work. Fancying royal ascot but would like to really go on a saturday, tuesday and friday seem to have the best races. what do you’s think the best race meeting of the year anywhere is, just really got into racing in the last couple of years. Been to Hexham Newcastle Carlisle Ayr and Epsom. would say ayr was the best behind epsom.
Difficult to say which is the best meeting to go to, so many different opinions on here – diffrent strokes and all that.
Some on here would suggest the all hunter-chase meeting at Cheltenham.
I’ve never been to the Royal meeting at Ascot, too many non-racing folks there for me but I would recommend a Saturday trip there for the meeting in September. A nice selection of races with a Group 1 and a couple of informative 2-y-o Group events.
Wherever you end up going to I hope you enjoy yourself and that all your investments return a profit.
Colin
Imo, if you want to go to Royal Ascot, the Tuesday is a good choice. I find the racing that day brilliant & there’s a buzz with it being the start of the meeting. It’s still very busy, but not as crowded as it gets later in the week.
Personally, I’d steer clear of the Saturday, whilst the racing is good, it’s becoming extremely crowded & hectic that day, & full!
Somewhere, I’ve got a surreal photo I took a couple of years back on the Saturday morning of RA. We were taking a short train hop from Clapham Junction to Hampton Court. We got to the station & thought there had been some security alert or worse. There was people everywhere & massive queues. Getting in amongst them, most were dressed for Royal Ascot. It turned out there was so many people trying to get a train to Ascot, they had to close the platform for safety reasons. The queue to even get to the platform, snaked right around the station.
I tend to go more often later in the year, & the Betfair/King George weekend is well worth a visit. It’s busy, but nowhere near as busy as the Royal meeting.
The Shergar Cup (Sat 6th Aug), is a lively day & has a very good atmosphere, and a concert afterwards. You don’t get any top class group races. You also have to decide whether the idea of having teams works for you. I got a bit fed up with it last year.
As Seabird mentioned the QE2 meeting in September was a lovely meeting, especially if you got some nice Autumn sun as well. Sadly with all the changes, I think the content of that meeting is changing. They are still racing on Fri 30th Sept/Sat 1st Oct this year, but they have this new British Champions Day on Sat 15th Oct, which could be nice if the weather holds, but could be cold & miserable if it doesn’t.
Some on here would suggest the all hunter-chase meeting at Cheltenham.
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gc
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Will be going for the first time this year – hopefully with a runner providing all goes to plan
Well, I attend both Royal Ascot and the July meeting and could not give up flat racing. It’s so different from jumps, but each has it’s own attraction for me.
BUT – I’m with you on the Hunter Chase meet. Have some FAB memories from this meeting. Do not often watch from up in the stands as like to jog about on the lawn nearer the horses and people. But on one occasion we did and I got so excited when a favourite old hunter chaser was winning at a BIG price that I nearly fell out of the stand! The old ones and the local ones get the loudest cheers and the place just erupts, very good craic.
One thing I will say about any of these meetings is that if you do a little homework beforehand and get to know the horses who are running and their stories it will make it a lot more interesting to watch them. And maybe a little profit can be had also …..
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Just got the yearly fixture list sent through post today and talk about pricing fans out of seeing the best horses in the world, disgusting imo.
Cheers for the advice. Think its gonna be the betfair king george vi queen elizabeth stakes at ascot. Although i may be tempted to go to the derby again, depending on what is running.
BUT – I’m with you on the Hunter Chase meet. Have some FAB memories from this meeting. Do not often watch from up in the stands as like to jog about on the lawn nearer the horses and people. But on one occasion we did and I got so excited when a favourite old hunter chaser was winning at a BIG price that I nearly fell out of the stand! The old ones and the local ones get the loudest cheers and the place just erupts, very good craic.
One thing I will say about any of these meetings is that if you do a little homework beforehand and get to know the horses who are running and their stories it will make it a lot more interesting to watch them. And maybe a little profit can be had also …..
Agree strongly on all counts, not least the last one made. It’s one of the filthiest lies continuously perpetuated in racing that hunter chases are impenetrable form vehicles offering no hope of fun and profit – they have been my most lucrative race type for a while and are likely to remain so. One simply has to dig a bit harder for all the collateral form sometimes.
Shame there are only about 110 of them programmed per annum…
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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