60pound to go racing at chester

- and then - You have got to dodge Doctor Marwan.

60 pound general admission then 80 pound for paddock and 120 for winning post absolute disgrace

They know that people are desperate to get out and about and are taking full advantage. People say the bookies are destroying the game, I would say take a closer look at the racecourses. Media rights payments, levy payments, race and other sponsorship payments and now the admission money will come rolling in again. Where's it all going? Because its certainly not all going into the prize money, I would say only a fraction of what they make goes towards it. Look at the prize money on offer at Salisbury tonight. Derisory!

you gotta take thier shyte odds as well chester bet my arshe ,jester bet more like fookin joke they can shuv it up their arrises!

Didn't the guy running the show there get caught dipping into the till? Jester bet was probably his idea and he was skimming off the top!

60 quid!!!

how much is a pie or burger plus the beer!

heard chester bet at the last meeting were 7/2 while the books were 7/1 on a winner of 1 of the races!

Do the racecourses get a cut of the catering profits too? When the "music" nights start up again they will be raking even more in. Racecourses should be made to throw open their books.

Only live a couple of miles from the course , wouldn't go if it was 60p.

Rather pay a bit more and go to the nearest greyhound track.

Dreadful place.

heard chester bet at the last meeting were 7/2 while the books were 7/1 on a winner of 1 of the races!

sadly, be plenty delighted with their £45 for a tenner. blissfully unaware they've just been robbed.

yes hulk a lot of 1st time novice racegoers would probably be happy with evens for that 7/2  which should have been 7/1

aintree £20 much better OP

Only the Rich can attend

They don't want the riff raff or the great unwashed on their property

They want the prawn sandwich and champagne swiging, coke snorting, spent 5k on my handbag for today clients through the door. Working class foke who might have a blob of mustard on their primark ill fitting t-shirt after grabing a burger need not apply for a ticket

12 June 2021

Summer Saturday

Enclosures

General Admission & Punters Package: £60

Paddock Enclosure: £80
Winning Post: £130


25 June 2021
Gates open at 4:30pm

Clogau Ladies Evening

Hospitality

1539 Roof Membership: £2500 + VAT
PARADE

The Final Furlong : £210 + VAT

1539 Restaurant & Bar: From £175 + VAT

The White Horse: From £140 + VAT

Private Boxes: From £410 + VAT

Festival Chalets: From £310 + VAT

Paddock Rooms: From £310 + VAT

Amazing.

onlooker: June 11th Aintree (£20 for us riff raff) and very relaxed

Just one problem there - punts....

£20 to get IN...

£150 for a Tow-Truck home ...

- and £600 for a new set of Wheels and Tyres for your car.

Get the train... its better than rip off Chester

Onlooker..

They must think everyone's a millionaire

There is a lot out there. Unfortunately society has made the separation from the rich to the poor a big chasma.... there are people out there earning more in 60 seconds then many earn in a lifetime. Always been the case, but the middle people are closer to poverty then being rich.

Even if you earn a £1bn a year, it's only £9k+ a minute, assuming 35hrs aweek 52 weeks a year.
If you were on the dole you'd get more than that in a lifetime.

Personally, they'd have to pay me to go racing at Chester.

and yet they get massive attendances every meeting - relative to other places

60 sovs seems about right..keeps all the oiks and scruffy northerners out

chavs it it is northern ydc

Unbelievable prices...last time I went to Chester decided never to go again as it was too crowded and very time consuming to queue up for drink and over priced food.

It looked deserted on ATR,they did send emails out to their loyal customers on Wednesday offering it at half price but obviously too late,same half price offer at next meeting.

Worst racecourse and staff in the country. Would rather go to the dentist.

been once but did not enjoy it, horrible crush points,impossible to move around.
Not a nice experience,think cow at cattle market type day, at 60 quids I would  find a nice spot to take advantage of from outside and watch  the action for free.

everyone seemed  overdressed,not like a race crowd I had seen anywhere else,not an experience I could recommend.

Unfortunately this mob have taken over Musselburgh, won't be back there either.

Give me Catterick, Perth, Beverly or Aintree any day of week.

£16 Grandstand Beverley.

£60 is disgusting

Can't believe they charge that much, very uncomfortable with large crowds, they can keep it at that price and the same goes for Cheltenham in many ways, ridiculous prices pricing the poor out.

Went on a Ladies Day about 5 years ago, long trip from here. Cleavage City. Actually watched a couple of races from the road above, place looked packed. Walked back to the station and went home

Pleased too say the place looked like a morgue as i watched from the railway bridge .........course run by HORRIBLE MONEY GRABBING TW@TS............after nearly 18 months without a crowd they couldn"t drum up enough interest to sell 4000 tickets............every other track yesterday looked really busy.....

PRICE includes .......... VALUE ADDED TAX  ... at 20 per cent .. Need to call in  .. book keeper .. Make sure BORIS  not getting cheated ..   What is a ...POUND ,,  WORTH    .. ?  HE maybe  ? ,,.. got married yesterday   ,nobody much cares .. ,,looks like he needs someone to blame .., ........He needs to pay for wall paper .. Cheaper using big new 1000 Pound Notes .. WILL KNOW BETTER next time .. YET .... has he learned anything .. Running   H.M.s   GOVERNMENT   .. How much does the notes on white boards cost and road maps to shut us all out of ,, RACECOURSES ONCE AND FOR ALL   .. Deserves     fans of racing to put Chester on the ....... to be missed Map ..

I thought it reasonable,most of the northerners only want to get in to rifle the **** machines and fruit machines anyway tbf

*cigarette

so, bloke on minimum wage going to spend his hard days' work pay just to get into these places? I think not, and in this time of great depression, tell um they can stick the game.

Disgusting who in there right mind would pay that money ,Spend half the afternoon swearing about your horses unable to get a clear passage

Quite cheap if you wish to mingle with
FOOTBALLERS WIVES

as below footballers wives  showing off thier new titz and lips, pon ses ,posers ,wan kerrs ,mugs , and those who are happy to pay  be rinsed! not to mention those who are happy to take evens about a 3/1 shot!

its still a rip off unless mingle means something else were you live

A racecourse group's chief executive has been sacked over the "misuse" of company resources, its chairman has announced.

Richard Thomas's contract with Chester Race Company (CRC) was terminated following "a thorough investigation", Ian O'Doherty said in a statement.

A company spokesman said his dismissal related to the "authorisation of work, expenses and payment of invoices for a personal project".

Mr Thomas has been asked to comment.

CRC owns and operates racecourses in the Cheshire city of Chester and in Bangor-on-Dee, near Wrexham in North Wales.

Mr Thomas had been at the firm for 20 years and had recently announced plans for the return of spectators as coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease.

However, he was not present at Chester's May meeting.

they maybe need to get funds in

they have been striping punters and racegoers up for the last 3 or 4 years ,not so nice when they get some back ! they dont like it up em!

First went on Summer Cup Day in 1976. Back then, they only had the May meeting and the Summer Cup one which clashed with the final day of the Open Golf Championship which at the time finished on a Saturday. Was a pleasant racecourse to visit then but due to greed and the audiences they have lately  targeted , it's gone badly downhill since. My last visit was on the day Sir Dragonet won the Vase. Got there early, was only going in Tatts but was given the treatment by three half witted gatemen, and an ugly, butch gatewoman - asked to open my coat to see whether I adhered to dress codes ( for Tatts!) then when I told them I'll go in the Silver Ring  to avoid this nonsense, ( I was at the entrance which has access to both), they asked me to empty my pockets and gave me the option of eating my homemade ham sandwich or binning it. When I bought my Silver Ring ticket the no mark who took it and gave me half back said " Make sure you keep that because if you are asked to produce it and can't you will be asked to leave!". As I was descending the steps I heard one of his colleagues say, "They just think they can turn up. ".

the course enclosure was very popular at chester but they dont really want people in there as they dont spend enough,last week people were getting emails offering tickets at half price when the realised they had not sold anywhere near the 4,000 they expected to sell,the gatemen who verbotene refers to might have been the same ones who asked a friend of mine a regular racegoer what was he doing bringing binoculars into a racecourse.

the regulars at musselborough are in for a shock .

A classic example of an attraction that thinks it is so famous they don't have to try anymore . Lands End, Leaning Tower of Pisa , Colosseum , Chatsworth, etc they have all treated me as though I had no right to be there except as a cash cow. Compare this with how I am treated at Pontefract or Wetherby. You leave these places with a smile on your face as even the gateman in the car park wishes you a safe journey home. Having been in management for over twenty five years I know that the staff you get are results of how you train them and treating people as humans is  session number 1.
Chester staff treat you as an enemy . The course thinks it is as iconic as Epsom or Newmarket , it isnt. You would ( and I have ) had far more respect from a chance meeting John Gosden, Tim Easterby or Nicky Henderson than anyone representing Chester Racecourse.

Very well put, Brians.

They've completely priced out the common man  (as if they care).

There are only so many Cheshire housewives and footballers who will pay those prices

Aintree is so much better..

I've never been to Chester races and after reading this thread I never will either!
I wouldn't mind paying £60 to get in if I was going to be properly catered for and made to feel welcome but that wouldn't be the case at Chester it would seem.

you would also get shyte odds if backing with their "chester bet"  which will make no difference to the type of clientel they attract ie footballers .poseurs, mugs and footballers wives etc.i also have never been and never will.

yes very well put brians


next fixture cheapest tickets £60 or to get to see the horses in the paddock £80 which is more expensive than royal ascot which has superb facilities and the best racing in the world.

Keeps the riff raff out imo

go to york far better, they know how to treat there customers, juddmonte day , £35 tatts, £15 in middle, top class racing,drinks are reasonable, tho not for me i have a expensive wife and daughter! the days of half a lager and if you want a cocktail put some lime/blackcurrant in it are a distant memory for me. Been to chester numerous times but will not be going again, too busy, cramming people in for bog standard racing, a disgrace what they are charging proper racing people need not apply

Just read this thread and agree with brians, was astonished at those admission prices and surely only people with more money than sense would pay that, only been there once and would never go again, awful place and as for keeping out the riff raff, 99% of the upper class t**ts paying that obscene amount behave far worse than the riff raff

I'm sure what Chavman meant was keeping the riff raff away from the town centre , so a good chance for some decent shopping time with all the idiots crammed into the racecourse.

Chester high street looking like Beirut now Hayden, more empty shops than ever, Yet again greed I suspect.

Lived there for 12 years Glasgow but not been back there since , suspect i wouldn't recognize the place.

I worked there for 6 months in 2002, really enjoyed it. Was a beautiful city.
Went to the races on the Sunday family day...was a good do.
Fallon rode a treble and trap one made all in the 5 furlong dash, 16s > 12s

I think I paid £30 in 1996

It's Cheshire -bling,classless and obsessed with materialism

The racecourses appear to be desperate to get their lost revenue back as quickly as possible.went to Brighton on Tuesday 2 sausage rolls(looked remarkably like greggs 60p jobs) £9.90.

Hope you told them where to put them, Barrowboy.

I"m from Cheshire mon .......we don"t do bling where i come from.............don"t tar us with Manc brush PLEASE>>>>

Greggs rolls are a
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