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Again i was at chelmsford tonight and to me the numbers are getting smaller every week ..... tonight Mark Johnstons wife was interviewed by "thommo"and she said the kickback was as worse as it gets .... lots of non runners making 6and7 runner fields ... this track is still charging joe public 17 quid to get in fish and chips £9 a pop ... and the attendance was circa 250 at best ...... this track is in decline act now before its too late
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how many do you expect on a thurs nite from 6-9pm? there isnt 250 at newcastle on a midweek daytime meeting.
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The BHA wants wall to wall racing. Chelmsford City is helping to provide it.
It isn't about racegoers it is about providing a product to keep punters in the betting shops in the evenings in order to lose money on racing,other sports and the FOBTs. Nick Rust has shown his true colours, not that anyone who knows the game will have many doubts about it being a terrible appointment from the start. |
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how did an unproven track get so many fixtures in the first place ?
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Foxy,the course is owned by a bookmaker.
(The organization that determines the fixture list is headed by an ex bookmaker but that's probably just a coincidence.)  |
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For a new build, CC is pretty weird. Of the courses I've been to, its got probably the worst view of the track.
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feels like a glorified dog track mixed in with a J D Wetherspoons atmosphere...synthetic rubbish
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Such meetings are not for spectators. When Musselburgh were applying for permission for AW racing I asked Bill Farnsworth who would come to it on a Winter evening. He said that they would not expect more than 400 and that the meetings were for the betting shops.
It then amused me that one of the local objections to the fixtures was because of traffic congestion. |
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It's the same as Wolverhampton's old polytrack. Surface not good enough so instead of spending a few quid and putting down a new surface thet add bits of synthetics to the already s--t surface. Short-term solution, but they will have to change it eventually.
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Betting shops don't seem as popular as they used to be. Maybe the driving force is online betting. Let's be honest, how many people spend their evenings in a betting shop these days?
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Probably a combination of both tbh. The fact remains that the bookmaker driven authority than runs the sport will continue to persist with the policy of trying to increase the amount of racing beyond saturation point in the vague hope that the fall in betting turnover will reverse itself.
They are too stupid to understand why it will not work. And the policy will continue. |
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Life-Lucky 16 Oct 15 12:38
Betting shops don't seem as popular as they used to be. Maybe the driving force is online betting. Let's be honest, how many people spend their evenings in a betting shop these days? in north east an average of 0-2 per shop |