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Was just on Sandown Park website and cannot believe the admission prices they are charging tonight. £37 for an adult is bad enough if you just want to go racing and cant stand Tom Jones but how they can justify charging kids between 5-17 £20 to get in? None of them have heard of Tom Jones to start with! Average family of 2 adults and 2 children £114 to get in the gate?
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GO RACING AND GET FLEECED.
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Dundalk's admission was free on Monday, and Ballydoyle's next good thing was on show. £37 is a rip-off!
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Seriously I would not give 4pence to see or hear tom jones.
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Wee eck in all seriousness there are currently only 43 horses on the entire card at Sandown tonight and no race above a Class 4....£37? But the £20 for kids is worse in my opinion, i've already given the family price but another example say your a teenager living locally and want to go racing with a few friends tonight its going to cost you all £20 each to get in and you can guarantee none of them have a Tom Jones song on their ipod...nice touch by Sandown to say student discounts do not apply on music nights
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Shocking. It makes my blood boil. And by the way, if you do go, avoid the £6 burgers....they end up in the bin.
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I emailed Andrew Cooper, told him he was out of touch, his reply back was that basically the music nights crossed subsidised other events and helped to increase prize money at other meetings throughout the year, all business's operate an element of cross subsidy I guess
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bar about 3 meetings a year the racing at sandown is middling at best,severely overhyped.
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the entrance cost has stopped me going tonight.
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A couple of years ago went to Musselburgh had to pay extra to get in as
they had a daft band on after racing, never stayed to listen to the band and never been back to the track since. |
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come racing you got to be mad to go racing nowdays
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its crazy
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what is the normal price for a tom jones concert..i thought you would expect close to £50 surely
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the books shouldnt bother going either, horrendous badge price and nobody going whose interested in the racing
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Well you look at the pioneers of the concerts i.e Newmarket and their Friday nights when they first started, they would sell out for at least say 3 of their 7 acts....... now this year they have only sold out for one of their acts, then it £5 admission in the cheap ring and probably £15 in the Grandstand ok was sevral years ago but the business model worked well, then they think we can charge what we like now and people will still turn up.........
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adge....people on here would not accept £50 to watch that 'has been'
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Correct Roo...... it will be usesless, you should be saying a million people there and nobody having a bet, but by the very fact that Sandown were still emailing people at 8am this morning in a desperate attempt to get people to go...... there will be nobody there and therefore nobody having a bet
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what will van morrison be like at the july course ?
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i remember one off the first nights at newmarket it could have even been the first one,it was freddie and the dreamers around 1994 i am pretty sure you just paid normal admission prices back then. |
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Jimnast, before that, i went to Hurst park and saw Al Jolson after racing..normal price as well
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Joking Apart, racecourses will price themselves out eventually, if the bookies had the bottle to boycott just 1 decent meeting.the racecourses would 5hit themselves and listen...Likewise if punters done the same.
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I love Sandown but that is just absurd to charge those prices. I have seen Tom Jones before in Vegas and he puts on a good show fair enough but for the racegoers that are not interested in the gig they just won't go at that price.
Plus 6 quid for a salt beef sandwich but that's another story. With travelling and all the rest of it you have to allow about £80 for expenses, it's just far too much for a lot of people. |
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was he any good reculver
 agree about the books not turning up for one of these,but i am sure you will agree there are two chances ,slim and no chance and as they say slim has just left the building. |
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37 quid to get in.....how much is it to get out .
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I'm going tonight ;as a member these stupid prices don't affect me Except i wont be taking my student son and so the course will lose a) a student admission b) supper for 2 in the bistro and c) a couple of pints......rest assured the place will be empty until about 7pm when the trains will disgorge hundreds if not thousands.Last year I left after the last race and was the only person driving out of the gates.I hate these music evenings.
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I believe sandown are refunding the price of the concert if you leave within 15 minutes of the last race ,not 100% on this
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posy
i take you wont be throwing your underwear at tom then ? |
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Correct Posy, another reason why it's no good for the books, most of the clientle leave work late or have drinks in town before heading over for the concert, they treat it like a concert in effect......
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its not unusual
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Jimnast - you are correct, Newmarket used to charge the same price for all their meetings including those with a concert at the outset, the pricing disparity has got bigger and bigger ever since
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no chance jimnast...always go commando
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do the women still throw there underwear at him ?
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i went to the madness night back in june ,it hurt pulling up the badge and entrance money. |
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Get debbie steamed up . jimbo, she ll chuck you at him !!!!
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Jimnast, I saw him at the MGM Grand, some old Doris, she must have been about 82 threw her granny pants at him.
It was a truly disturbing scene for me let alone Sir Tom  |
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I did see Blondie at The July course and about 12,000 stayed for the gig and I thoroughly enjoyed it, she really rocked the place. Entrance was nowhere near 37 sovs though.
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she took me to see him in manchester about 15 years ago roo,he was starting in decline then.
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Did Sandown not have a meeting last year with TJ singing at the end? If I remember correctly, they had a huge crowd.
It's all well and good us racing purists complaining about high prices when there is a popular act on afterwards (and TJ still packs them in) but when I went to the Brigadier Gerard night, which had probably the best evening's racing in the UK, the place was virtually empty. Yes this evening at Sandown is very pricey if you don't want to stay for the show but how would you police a dual ticketing system? |
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Did Sandown not have a meeting last year with TJ singing at the end? If I remember correctly, they had a huge crowd.
It's all well and good us racing purists complaining about high prices when there is a popular act on afterwards (and TJ still packs them in) but when I went to the Brigadier Gerard night, which had probably the best evening's racing in the UK, the place was virtually empty. Yes this evening at Sandown is very pricey if you don't want to stay for the show but how would you police a dual ticketing system? |