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Istabraq said:
Cheltenham have just announced a cap of 68,500 for each day of the festival, attendances for last season reached over 73,000 on Thursday and Friday.
Not entirely sure how such a meagre reduction will help the experience but you can understand why the capacity wasn't pitched lower....

https://www.racingpost.com/news/late...om-2023/573633
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It's a surprisingly good move, but as others have pointed out, i'm sure they'll make up the difference somewhere! Pint prices are going to be even more fun you suspect.

Edit: Or as a few have said on twitterland which I should have thought of, it paves the way for the dreaded 5th day.
 
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They can cap it at 68500 because they are adding an extra day from the following year , wonder if they will claim that is due to public sentiment ,
 
The Fellow said:
They can cap it at 68500 because they are adding an extra day from the following year , wonder if they will claim that is due to public sentiment ,
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They've put the ticket prices up by a higher percentage than the crowd reductions.

So same income.
More Ticket money

As Tuesday and Wednesday this year weren't above the new cap - but Thursday and Friday were 5,000 too many.

Ticket prices up around 10%.
 
If they though there was bad behaviour, excessive drunkenness, and drug use last March.

Goodness only knows what they'll make of the carnage at the track and in the town centre, if they shifted to or added a raceday on the Saturday. :cower:
 
When we went in 2020 my son was sniffed out by a dog. He had no cannabis on him at all so can only think it was the smell of it on his cloths were he smokes at his home. So let hope if the knobheads turn up with anything in their pockets the dogs get them.
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After being spoke to by the police they took his ticket off him and told him if he buys one off a tout they will be able to find him on camera and will be kicked out and charged even though he had nothing on him.
 
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somer1 said:
When we went in 2020 my son was sniffed out by a dog. He had no cannabis on him at all so can only think it was the smell of it on his cloths were he smokes at his home. So let hope if the knobheads turn up with anything in their pockets the dogs get them.
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After being spoke to by the police they took his ticket off him and told him if he buys one off a tout they will be able to find him on camera and will be kicked out and charged even though he had nothing on him.
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Those sniffer dogs were clueless.

They were all over a guy in front of me, and for an uncomfortable moment sniffing around me, as I stood behind the guy.

They took him out the queue and asked him questions about drugs use, etc.

When he said never, and got upset at the question, they then seemed to assume if he had cash in his wallet that it could be that, and he had to empty his wallet out.

If ever there was any proper reason to go cashless at that racecourse, then I think of that moment.

Although, thinking about it, if he didnt have any banknotes, I dont know where the convo would have gone next.

Chucking him out, if your son's position is anything to go by.
 
Police really are a joke aren't they. Pointless
 
somer1 said:
When we went in 2020 my son was sniffed out by a dog. He had no cannabis on him at all so can only think it was the smell of it on his cloths were he smokes at his home. So let hope if the knobheads turn up with anything in their pockets the dogs get them.
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After being spoke to by the police they took his ticket off him and told him if he buys one off a tout they will be able to find him on camera and will be kicked out and charged even though he had nothing on him.
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I don’t drink, have never smoked nor do drugs yet because a dog indicated on me at a football match, I was subject to a 10-15 minute search. Which I’m sure became more extended because I asked after 2 minutes are they sure that the dog doesn’t indicate on people who’ve just had a sausage and chips.

Sniffer dogs are brilliant but they shouldn’t be used to 100% assume guilt which is what Stewards/Officers seem to want to do.
 
If it's true that Barry The Butcher is going to Henry then we can rule out him going to the bumper already.
 
HoldenTheReins said:
If it's true that Barry The Butcher is going to Henry then we can rule out him going to the bumper already.
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Josh Stacey said this morning on Let’s Talk Racing it’s 95% he goes to Henry, no idea how good his sources are so do with that what you will.
 
Stormez said:
Josh Stacey said this morning on Let’s Talk Racing it’s 95% he goes to Henry, no idea how good his sources are so do with that what you will.
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FWIW - I emailed the yard on Friday and had a response Monday. "We don’t have him as yet" was the exact line so that's as good as confirmation for me that he will be heading there.

*Edit: spelling mistake "from" to "for".
 
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I don't think Robcour have ever had a runner in the bumper, have they? Nevermind which trainer he ends up at it.

On that basis, the fact I used some free bets on him for the bumper makes me feel a little silly now :highly_amused:
 
ComplyOrDie said:
I don't think Robcour have ever had a runner in the bumper, have they? Nevermind which trainer he ends up at it.

On that basis, the fact I used some free bets on him for the bumper makes me feel a little silly now :highly_amused:
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Is BarryTheButcher owned by Robcour? They have a serious duo in BTB and An Tobar if so.
 
BarrowNH01 said:
Is BarryTheButcher owned by Robcour? They have a serious duo in BTB and An Tobar if so.
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Scrap this, looks like it is Sean Mulryan, in which case he could still go for the bumper!

I was looking at the wrong horse :highly_amused:
 
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ComplyOrDie said:
Yeah.

I suspect Barry will be held up (given he's only 4), but could be wrong. An Tobar will be 6 next season, so he'll almost definitely go over hurdles straight away, IMO.
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Id say that would be very sensible.
Cant seem to find anything on BTB being at robcour if you could point me in the right direction please.
 
BarrowNH01 said:
Id say that would be very sensible.
Cant seem to find anything on BTB being at robcour if you could point me in the right direction please.
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I've just edited above :encouragement:

Robcour have purchased his full brother!
 
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RE: Festival attendances..

To put it in perspective, the attendance figures this year were
Tuesday 68567 - very uncomfortable in Members even with fair weather.
Wednesday 64431 - rain making all sheltered areas overcrowded.

Reducing capacity to 68000 will make little or no difference and it will be absolutely not worth the price in Members.
 
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Josh @ Lets Talk Racing, said that that Barry The Butcher is 95% certain to go to Henry and therefore will not run in the bumper. He also really likes An Tobar, but connections have told him that the horse is more of a Journey With Me type rather than a Bob Olinger, and would recommend seeing him run first over hurdlers before looking at backing him for the Ballymore.
 
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Maxfield said:
Josh @ Lets Talk Racing, said that that Barry The Butcher is 95% certain to go to Henry and therefore will not run in the bumper. He also really likes An Tobar, but connections have told him that the horse is more of a Journey With Me type rather than a Bob Olinger, and would recommend seeing him run first over hurdlers before looking at backing him for the Ballymore.
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TWAR the way to go then !!
 
Anyone with roll ups on sky, have they disappeared from your my bets section? It's happened with quite a few of mine
 
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