screens up round newbury bookies

There will be some missing next time....poor bookies

Would bring tears 2 a glass eye.
Well done 2 all winning punters 2day.

sorry to dissapoint you lads but you would be amazed how many racecourse bookmakers now go with the favs.

surely jimnast your not saying that they've all arbed it back on here
has this ever happened before

thanks hulk , i actually lost 6 -1 , the only winning race being big bucks. got up at 6.30 a.m. drove 360 miles and just got home ,lost just over 3k [ can't be bothered to count it]...badge was £307 including the marketing fee and even with all those winning punters the business was well down on previous years.
there were SIX vacant pitches today , i just wonder how many there will be next year

Surely ye won on the first two races,second looked a bonanza 11/10 and a 2/1shot beaten in the one race although the last couple of favourites going in generally makes it a good day for punters.

I did win on the first two but not much.  Also, didn't lose much on Big Bucks.  Given up taking that one on.

Putting the results to one side - no problem - win some lose some.
£307 to bet today was Criminal.
Crowd was way down, and £30 for no atmosphere was not good value for anyone.
Marketing fee has a lot to answer for on days like this - it should be scrapped.

There is a complete lack of promotion of the sport both nationally and locally.
It seems all racecourses are managed by people who think the public will just turn up.
There are many ways to promote the sport to the general public but no-one in racing seems to want to bother.

Ascot Cheltenham  very good (any tracks bookies complain about in the main very poor at it)

The reason people don't attend these mid-week fixtures :

1. The cost of entry to the course is exorbitant for the fayre that's on offer.

2. You've been ripped off once, you then get ripped off with the cost of food and drink.

3. You can consistently bet on here with better odds than are on offer on course.

I'm afraid unless the racecourses address the cost issues midweek horseracing and the bookmaking occupation will be in terminal decline.

hollywell


in fairness to newbury £20 one enclosure thursday/friday for the standard of racing isnt ott i do of course take your point about the cost of things once your in,regarding the exchanges been better value,you could bet 1st 4 1/4 in tatts and on the rails and the books were right up with the prices plus of course no commision and fresh air.

Lots of things wrong with racing but to say there was a poor crowd at Newbury on thurs and fri and that Betfair prices are bigger than the ring  obviously wasn't there and at worse is being intentionally dishonest.

I thought thursday and friday were very busy, saturday wasnt.

Newbury need to sort out the getting off the car park sooner rather than later too.  They sent everyone out the back exit yesterday (through the golf course) then on the roundabout this lane joins there was temporary traffic lights.  After that, there was a big queue up to the lights with no traffic in any other direction.  Surely it wouldn't have taken the wisdom of Soloman to realise this would cause huge queues.  A couple of cops on the temporary lights and a couple on the main lights would have seen the traffic gone in no time but its like they don't care by then, they've had your money now fk off.

wasnot

looking at the plans for newbury the first job to be completed is the road system that will be in by next years winter festival.

My family are regular racegoers;we usually drag a few others along who only attend once or twice a year. On discovering £30 entry we decided to give the meeting a miss...first Hennessy missed in about ten years.That's at least 6 missing, lost entry fees of £180 plus usual add-ons. This scenario only needs to be played out by a few hundred others,to understand where the missing crowd has gone. When will racecourses ever wake up to understand that more means less?? I am sure that with an entry price for Tatts in the £!0-£15 mark then attendances would increase. Witness the crowd that turned up for last year's "free day"! And the course even managed to miss a trick then with there only being a couple of bars open.Newbury needs a kick in the pants, it has recently developed a jobsworh manner that makes Ascot look almost welcoming.

Holywell  I was just making my point from someone who was there and has seen some awful midweek attendances over the past 2/3 years that the actual crowd was very fair. I apologise for any offence. Jimnast I deliberately didn't talk about the business thurs/fri as I understand it wasn't that great for the ring boys but for actual crowd and atmosphere I thought it was fair and encouraging.

i was there on friday and saturday on friday in the ring the buisness was pathetic the books on the 2nd line were taking a few quid but the guys on the third could not strike a bet as for saturday it did look as if biz was down .......as regards getting out the place .....SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE WANTS FKKIN

one ring ribero on thurs/fri,rails looked fine tatts looked poor.