The £5 Racecard

[Emerald]

As much as I enjoyed my time at Aintree I did feel that charging £5 for a racecard on Grand National Day is excessive. I did wonder how long it would take before this sort of price kicked in for a major meeting – or am I behind the times and somewhere else already does? (Excluding Timeform naturally).

[vikingflagship]

i didn’t attend aintree this year, but weren’t they only £3.50 last year, prices are going to get too high for everything, the tatterstalls tickets will no doubt go up in price for next year, they always got up by quite a few pounds each year, not just a tiny amount

vf

[Venusian]

Rip-off Britain is clearly alive and kicking.

£5 roughly approximates to the admission charge for both Auteuil (for the Grand Steeple-chase de Paris) and Longchamps (for the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe).

[brendanr]

And the racecards are free.

[Anonymous]

Yeh but Englands better than France

[phil walker]

I haven’t bought a racecard for years, what’s wrong with buying a Racing Post or any of the newspapers which contain the day’s racecards? Much cheaper than £5 and often better tipsters!

[bbobbell]

As much as I enjoyed my time at Aintree I did feel that charging £5 for a racecard on Grand National Day is excessive. I did wonder how long it would take before this sort of price kicked in for a major meeting – or am I behind the times and somewhere else already does? (Excluding Timeform naturally).

It’s the same price as the programme for many other events. I was charged that at Burghley Horse Trials and the London Real Food Festival last year and expect the same again. A London concert would be dearer.

[dprp]

I think they were slightly cheaper on Thurs /Fri but very cheekily, they included the same articles each day. Even a sad man like me doesn’t want to read the same thing each day!

I have the view that at meetings like Aintree & Cheltenham where it is £60/70/80/90+ to get in the door that they should be handing you a racecard free. Even if the cost was built into the admission charge it would be better than charging somebody £60+ & then immediately asking for another fiver.

[Ardrossthegreat]

Scandalous to be honest……….they spout on about racing for change and come up with that!!! £5 for a racecard ******* ridiculous!!! its just a keepsake from the meeting really……

[rich_ie]

I haven’t bought a racecard in Ireland since they put them up to €3. You can print timeform cards with colours for the price of the ink and paper from betfair for free.

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