Cheltenham Festival
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are you off for Cheltenham?
are you off for Cheltenham?
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I never find Cheltenham too busy STS. (Admittedly I don't go on Friday)
Never had a problem getting a bet on, or a pint in Club. Yeah sure you can queue for a pee, but never too long imo. Getting in and out is easy on foot, if you arrive early and leave later. A lot of punters arrive after 12.30 and try to get a pint, food, toilet, placepot on, pint, toilet, bet, and viewing point in less than an hour, then moan it's too busy !  |
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Just too scared of missing out on any special or free bet etc. There is quite a lot of carrots that get dangled for the armchair punter every year that are too good to be true. Far easier to make money sitting at home than it is at the course during a festival!
Yes it is, it is more about making the money than the spectacle, but it is the spectacle that makes me want to start reading about it every October! |
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I'm not good with big crowds so couldn't even consider such a big meeting. Had panic attacks at York on Dante day a couple of decades ago and haven't attempted a big meeting since. Thought I might have had it beat but went to an open air rock concert a few years ago and was just as bad. Can just about cope with football as long as I get to my seat early and wait for the crowds to mill out before leaving at the end, going for a pee at half time is a bit of a nightmare though. Not as bad as at he old place mind you. Smaller Newmarket meeting on a Saturday was just about within my limits last year.
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Nope no wind up, i would rather save those kind of experiences for my fav rock club in Blackpool !
So being crushed in a betting ring trying to get bets on and then struggling for a viewing platform to watch the race is your thing fair enough, i don't get it, some may say i am too old for an old fashioned mosh - pit down my fav' rock club (The Tache, Blackpool, now re-located, need to go to new one but was at last bash party night and was the one that was floored during last song after speech to Enter Sandman-Metallica) but i refuse to admit it haha! For the Metallica reference alone you are forgiven as clearly you are the creme de la creme of an already-superior breed.   |
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Wish it was this time next week !
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I'm on nights next week so have saved 5 days annual leave, but means I can't get down and back up to Manchester in time otherwise I would go even if the train costs £100 return!!!
Only ever been on the Tuesday twice, the years Sublimity & Binocular won their Champion hurdles, got to say the atmosphere especially the Cheltenham roar before the Supreme was quite poor the last time I went, maybe it sounds louder on tv, maybe it was because I was down by the Guiness tent and not up near the winning post?? As I'm getting older...i'm 26 now, I find myself looking forward to Cheltenham a lot earlier. God knows what I'll be like in 10 years...can't wait!! |