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The reduction in the price of Guinness, Prosecco and spirits seems to be the first step to attract more racegoers. Great stuff…..
Just need to update the toilets so nobody is in the queue for 20 minutes plus and everyone’s a winner
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My first thoughts after reading this but I’m not sure how this will encourage more people, £7.50 instead of £7.80 for a pint of the black stuff. So if one decides to have six pints that is a deal breaking £1.80.
The more I know the less I understand.
Experience: Delivering a world-class raceday for all attendees.
I love Cheltenham, the horses, the races but every time I’ve been I’ve had issues
Drink might be a few pence cheaper but all that does is encourage more drinking.. I’ve no problem with that however when the drunk pricks walk into deaf John and knock him off his feet without an apology it’s a bit much
The same year as that, we went by coach and had a long wait to get out of the carpark.. again it’s per of the day BUT not “World Class”I had to ask to speak to the manager when entering one year because they wanted to take my water bottles off me. I told them I had a kidney transplant and have come to watch the horses, not queue up to pay over the top prices
I’m happy to attend alone. I like my own company, this is fine until people start getting pick pocketed. Then security will pick you out as different for not hanging out with 10 others and drinking like it’s the last day on earth so you become prime target… Not exactly world class
All that said Kopek des Bordes wins the Arkle …
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Thank God someone’s mentioned Cheltenham 2026 , I’m planning on topping up the ante Post tickets this week … as for the drinking , I’m teetotal and give the festival a miss
Have never been and probably never will now.
My betting interest is more in the lower class races now.I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysPurwell , i tend to agree with you , i prefer attending lead up races to big ones to get close to good horses in comfort and enjoy the low grade poly nowdays tbh . The big days i settle down to TV .
Delivering a world-class raceday for all attendees
What is that time-honoured description of Hexham, midwinter, midweek in the company of a stiff north-easterly and scudding sleet showers doing in a thread about Cheltenham?
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their wayCheltenhams goose is cooked now for attracting punters. It gorged itself on people’s hard earned for far too long and now it’s paying the price for what they wrongly believed to be a never ending supply of disciples.
As soon as the costa del Cheltenham became a thing that was the knife to the jugular. I will never attend the festival again so long as I have a hole in my backside. I had 5 nights b&b in a 5* hotel in Tenerife last year for the festival. I could put my bets on in the pub, me and the Mrs could have a 2 or 3 drinks each, a sandwich each and ice cream for the little un for about 30 euros. The waiter brought our food and beers to the table and I was sat in shorts and t shirt watching RTV. They can’t compete with the overall package that’s available elsewhere.
The ones saying “nothing beats being there” truly are fools.
Advertising legalised drug taking and gambling, appealing to those in society with questionable morals, in pursuit of financial gain.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Gambling and drinking at a major horse racing event, surely not.
What do people want them to do? It’s a business and the place isn’t going to make any money by filling it with people who bring their own sandwiches, nurse a couple of half pints of mild and spend most of their day with their nose in the Racing Post looking at the form.
That said, I see no issue with having a booze free enclosure somewhere which would inevitably be quieter and less crowded, it can’t be that difficult. It wouldn’t need to be that big.
All in all though it’s a society issue, not a racing one. Loads of big events, sporting and otherwise, are massive booze and coke fests these days.
You think it’s bad here, go and have a look at the Ryder Cup. Not only are the ‘fans’ a disgrace, they were actually being egged on by the MC. Tickets and beers are more expensive even than here too.
Part of me would love to have been there as a European fan yesterday though, the absolute shellacking being handed out in the face of that is quite something.
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