King & Greatrex Complaining About Worcester Facilities

owners have to pay training fees for the horse ,transport to the course(for the horse),entry fees for the race,all this costing much more than the'riff raff'have to pay.
if you were a patron of say the opera,and paid a lot of money to keep the thing afloat would you be happy to be sitting in the cheap seats at the back of the theatre.
if you pay for a first class seat on the train you would expect to be sat in first class.
The owners /trainers bars had been hired out to corporate(more money for the greedy racecourses}.
The owners and trainers were crammed into a tiny room overlooking the local canal/river,with one tiny tv and a tiny bar.
I'm sure the trainers would love to be herded in with the general public on raceday(even members), and be forced to listen to people asking them for a winner all day.

the scottish tracks are the best at looking after owners and trainers
Ayr is the best,Hexham is a disgrace cup of soup in a cardboard cup and roll

ribotman, please dont refer to punters as riff raff you piece of ****.

Best facilities for owners I've experienced are Ascot and Cheltenham where they served excellent food ,wine etc at tables with proper tablecloths/napkins.
Seem to remember at Chepstow we were stuck in an overcrowded room and were entitled to a sandwich ! Probably explains why I'm no great fan of Chepstow !

Some smaller courses certainly look after owners...Wincanton for example comes to mind.

Mmmmlushka I suppose I must make it clear as you probably don't realize I was quoting the opening poster, I certainly would not call punters riff raff and mean it
you obviously don't do irony.

thank you general

The only place I've ever been served a pint of 'off' Guinness was the O&T bar at Worcester (which is normally shared with annual members). It's a small, dark, cramped bar with a couple of tiny screens. It sounds like on Saturday the management commandeered this grim hovel for a corporate event and moved the owners into a tent? That might actually have been an improvement!

Nice course on a quiet day - claustrophobic hellhole when it's busy. Wouldn't have fancied Derby Day in a million years.

"years"

accepted mmmlushka,no worries

Good luck with your punting ribotman.

Arena have refurbished Bath and purchased Ffos Las, so I see no reason why they can't build a new stand at Worcester.  Unfortunately, the Severn flooding every winter may have something to do with it.

andrex?

Ribotman,

I take on board your opposite argument.

However, I am uneasy with the idea of 'paying' to create segregation. I presume owners don't pay to get in and it is their choice to invest in the sport. The people who they don't appear to want to mix with indirectly fund their hobby. As regards asking for tips (what would be so bad about that, after all the media will ask what's your best chance of the day?) I suspect many of the casual racegoers that the sport now attracts wouldn't even recognise them. Racing suffers with the tag of being a rich man's sport and this sort of thing doesn't help the image. Some people like the pomp but many more probably don't.

As regards the quality of racing at Worcester it has inevitably declined since it became a summer jumping track.

i agree with differentdrum - no segregation. The kind of people who want to go in the O&Ts are the show offs and people who own about 2% of a horse.

no surprise to me as i am an annual member i never go to that meeting as the crowd is totally ridiculous every area is sold to corporate including owners and trainers bar facilities for 1500 crowd of 10,000 same every year totally agree with trainers and owners they are only interested in what gets taken behind the bar