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30 Apr 10
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Great value, probably £6 a burger as well. Splendid stuff.
As much as I love Fontwell and have been many times over the years that is a disgraceful price for admission.
Was £24 to get into Chepstow last Friday, card was awful.
Northern Racing finishing off racing slowly.
Northern Racing finishing off racing slowly.
Should be free entry to all courses, take over the catering contracts and charge bookies a fee based on attendance.
If attendance doubles, bookies pay a slightly higher fee.
If Towcester can do it, then its time to get the others on board.
If attendance doubles, bookies pay a slightly higher fee.
If Towcester can do it, then its time to get the others on board.
had a free day at donny today shame that crap couses thnk that 22 nicker is worthwhile if they had no entance fee and added 10p to beer they would improve profits ten fold and attract new customers BUT WHAT DO I KNOW
Yes, I'msolucky.
So if you want to go for the racing you are being punished.
So if you want to go for the racing you are being punished.
driving proper racing fans away. Why would I pay petrol, gate fees, high prices for food and drink, cant get served, spoilt by drunks or watch racing on tv with laptop.Clueless
£33 for the Thursday nights at Epsom !!
They just don`t get it.
They just don`t get it.
Northern Racing has ruined Uttoxeter @ Hereford @ especially Chepstow. Just hope they dont get there hands on the Arena courses.
to be fair im a big football fan , but given the choice of football or a night at the races , the races would win every time and at £22 it aint cheap but compared to football its cheap, i think racing fans are lucky it aint the price of a football match , in saying that it should be free to enter racing especially for kids! would help younger people get in to a trully great sport that we have!
and they still got an old fashioned scabby telly in the bookie room,get with the programme fonters :-(
They might as well charge more, the hardcore mugs will still pay.
the old telly in the bookies has an awful picture also :-(
and the owners and trainers bar is too far from the action
That is some rip 10 euro into the Curragh on Monday 15 euro for a family ticket. Fame and Glory and a few other decent animals running on the day aswell.
Hearts I think football is a better value option.
If you are just paying for the racing at a flat venue, then for the same price as your matchday ticket you are getting around 8-10 minutes of actually action compared to 90 +, also, you can still get a burger for £2.50, It was over £6 last year at Goodwood. A joke.
If you are just paying for the racing at a flat venue, then for the same price as your matchday ticket you are getting around 8-10 minutes of actually action compared to 90 +, also, you can still get a burger for £2.50, It was over £6 last year at Goodwood. A joke.
They dont need to make it free, just make it so that you dont in any way begrudge paying..say a fiver
jmdc 30 Apr 22:00
STV - how much was members? I paid £20 in December 2008.
The members area is currently under redevelopment and due to reopen in August.
What the day members price will be I do not know, but as an annual member for 20 years I shall not be renewing as, to pay for the fancy new facilities, which have nothing to do with racing, the annual member's fee is going up by 30%.
Thanks Northern Racing for your appreciation of my loyalty and goodnight.
STV - how much was members? I paid £20 in December 2008.
The members area is currently under redevelopment and due to reopen in August.
What the day members price will be I do not know, but as an annual member for 20 years I shall not be renewing as, to pay for the fancy new facilities, which have nothing to do with racing, the annual member's fee is going up by 30%.
Thanks Northern Racing for your appreciation of my loyalty and goodnight.
Emily100609 30 Apr 19:49
had a free day at donny today shame that crap couses thnk that 22 nicker is worthwhile if they had no entance fee and added 10p to beer they would improve profits ten fold and attract new customers BUT WHAT DO I KNOW
Great idea. So we have a free day out surrounded by 500 bus loads of "friday night" drunken louts carrying on into Saturday having fastest pint drinking competitions and half of them in fancy dress, and ruining it for the few thousand genuine racegoers.
had a free day at donny today shame that crap couses thnk that 22 nicker is worthwhile if they had no entance fee and added 10p to beer they would improve profits ten fold and attract new customers BUT WHAT DO I KNOW
Great idea. So we have a free day out surrounded by 500 bus loads of "friday night" drunken louts carrying on into Saturday having fastest pint drinking competitions and half of them in fancy dress, and ruining it for the few thousand genuine racegoers.
fontwell went from a gem of a course to a khazi in record time once phil bell and his merry men took over this new stand could become a white elephant as proper racing folk wont be paying the extortionate prices to use it and dont fancy their chances of filling it on a wet tuesday with the much lusted after corporate crowd as an ex annual member who feels totally alienated by the cretins who run this place i hope the new project turns out to be a monumental failure
What is the Northern Racing game plan then?
Sell the land for housing having "proved" racing isn't viable?
Sell the land for housing having "proved" racing isn't viable?
The 22 quid clearly wasn't justified by the 6 races that were put on, with 2 of them sellers in all but name.
If Abba (not my cup of tea, tbf) had been playing then the price would have been a bargain. But a phuucking tribute band?! They are 2 a penny and cost 2s6d to put on, ffs!
The dumbing down of the racing product at Fontwell by Northern Racing is a disgrace. Prize money has fallen to such an extent that a once mid table course is now, along with Hexham, propping up the UK Prize Money Table.
They have already built a pub and a hotel on the racecourse. A shopping centre and housing estate cant be far off.
If Abba (not my cup of tea, tbf) had been playing then the price would have been a bargain. But a phuucking tribute band?! They are 2 a penny and cost 2s6d to put on, ffs!
The dumbing down of the racing product at Fontwell by Northern Racing is a disgrace. Prize money has fallen to such an extent that a once mid table course is now, along with Hexham, propping up the UK Prize Money Table.
They have already built a pub and a hotel on the racecourse. A shopping centre and housing estate cant be far off.
Mr pike as far as i'm aware, the Reuben brothers, the billionaire property investors are now the major shareholders in Northern Racing.
if i hadnt travelled 95 miles i would have gone straight home took it up with general manager all he could say it had cost 2 grand to hire the stage who cares i went to see racing
The land that Northern Racing now own must have the RBs slavering.
2k to hire the stage?!
That's 10x the cost of hiring the' band' playing on it.
That's 10x the cost of hiring the' band' playing on it.
Wonder wether it was an oncourse in running player who had the lional blair of double the trouble re-rallying and getting cattle trucked to the extent of 49 bags of sand.
Is the wire (refugee camp) still in place that segregates the members and ordinary enclosure by the parade ring?
no just 1 price for allincidently prepare to take a new mortgage out when the new stand opens in august.
ah its been about 12 years since I was there, always found it to be typical of the British class system.
if you want to see the class system in all its glory head to goodwood today to see the free ticket mob being sneered at by the annual members
Just boycott this courses that take racegrs for mugs.
If I wanted to take my family out it would cost over £70..... madness.
If I wanted to take my family out it would cost over £70..... madness.
Been a regular at Fontwell for over 25 years..fed up with being ripped off for entry and food so have stopped going this year.. When i last went at the end of last year i noticed that their super doopa new members stand actually dosen't face the racing track !! it seems to face the top bend ?? Has anybody else noticed this ??
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