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I gave last year a miss, I would normally attend for the one day with my wife, the return train fare to Paddington is around £80 each added to the entrance fee £107 each plus add-ons and we are doing £400 for a day out, and a long day at our time of life.
We go to the West End theatre and have a top quality meal on the way home for under £300 inclusive.
 
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This reminds me of the time-tested wisdom about contracting. Key amongst considerations are the likely quality of the job, the speed at which it is done, and what it will ultimately cost. You can, in making the decision, choose for a job to be done well and quickly (but it won't be cheap), done well and cost-effectively (but it won't be quick) or quickly and cheaply (but it won't be done well). You can't have all three.

Us racing folk have to decide where our priorities balance amongst the length and quality of the festival, the scale of the event, the on-course experience and the cost to attend. It's simply not realistic to expect it to be how we always (like to) remember, attracting only the highest quality horses, at a capacitous venue with modern facilities and available to us at a low cost.

I welcomed the capping of spectator numbers and I don't mind paying a little more to support this. You go the other way and you end up with the Festival becoming Grand National Saturday...and I say this as someone who grew up in the North West and was introduced to racing via the National.
 
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Quevega said:
It's more than just ticket prices it's everything surrounding it.
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Correct, and I was intimating this with my analogy on overpriced West End pubs.
I remember £14 for one of the worst burgers ever made at the 02 some years ago and bar a drunk pasty on the way out I never eat at Cheltenham, I just wondered how the prices of expenses compare.

Kevloaf for info someone in here said the DRF Sat was painfully busy and they wouldn't be going back, not sure who though...
 
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Have 365 refunded any nrnb handicap bets yet for anybody?
 
Istabraq said:
Correct, and I was intimating this with my analogy on overpriced West End pubs.
I remember £14 for one of the worst burgers ever made at the 02 some years ago and bar a drunk pasty on the way out I never eat at Cheltenham, I just wondered how the prices of expenses compare.

Kevloaf for info someone in here said the DRF Sat was painfully busy and they wouldn't be going back, not sure who though...
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Agree with you Ista, I never eat at the course - the prices are a joke, as is the food. When I go to HQ, I usually buy a pork pie from Waghornes in Prestbury and smuggle it in a pocket. Can strongly recommend, and it seems to pass the sniffer dogs too…
 
Remembering going to Paris in the 80s to watch an AC/DC gig. One of my mates ran into a bar shouting i will get the 1st round and had nowhere near the price of it! was funny as fuck but we all chipped in and helped him out
 
somer1 said:
Remembering going to Paris in the 80s to watch an AC/DC gig. One of my mates ran into a bar shouting i will get the 1st round and had nowhere near the price of it! was funny as fuck but we all chipped in and helped him out
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I'd have still been in Paris if I'd have done that with my mates ! :biggrin-new:
 
Going to Ludlow tomorrow.... so any tips let me know because I am STRUGGLING


Only thing I'm on so far is Fortified Fortune 5/1 in the 16.05 .... who was a head 2nd to Cantico on his only run with Premier Magic who has done well for Ben Pauling back in 3rd that day.




Popped in general rather than NH tips cos it's a random Tuesday and no-one checks that part of the site :eagerness:
 
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Going to Ludlow tomorrow.... so any tips let me know because I am STRUGGLING


Only thing I'm on so far is Fortified Fortune 5/1 in the 16.05 .... who was a head 2nd to Cantico on his only run with Premier Magic who has done well for Ben Pauling back in 3rd that day.




Popped in general rather than NH tips cos it's a random Tuesday and no-one checks that part of the site :eagerness:
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Don't really look at the day to day stuff as much this time of year, especially Ludlow (don't even know where that is :highly_amused:)
But noticed Cobden is riding 3 or 4 and no Nicholls horses, so those bookings look interesting.
 
Quevega said:
Don't really look at the day to day stuff as much this time of year, especially Ludlow (don't even know where that is :highly_amused:)
But noticed Cobden is riding 3 or 4 and no Nicholls horses, so those bookings look interesting.
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Yeah I did think that but then none of them looked any good either :indecisiveness:


At least it's 'an angle' I can cling to whilst I'm there :applouse:
 
Istabraq said:
Correct, and I was intimating this with my analogy on overpriced West End pubs.
I remember £14 for one of the worst burgers ever made at the 02 some years ago and bar a drunk pasty on the way out I never eat at Cheltenham, I just wondered how the prices of expenses compare.

Kevloaf for info someone in here said the DRF Sat was painfully busy and they wouldn't be going back, not sure who though...
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All about personal Opinions / experiences though i think . Been to the D.R.F the last two years .
Yes , it was busy , But my mate and myself able to walk up to the bar and get a drink , able to sit down and eat a Decent meal under 16 euros .
Get a seat in the Grandstand at no extra cost . for 50 euro's for two days .
We booked early door's for flights , and hotel . So the whole lot came in at less than the price of 4 days at cheltenham..
definitely recommend it if you haven't been .:encouragement: .
 
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William Hill not refunding NRNB bets until 24hrs before the race, so a friend has told me.
 
I think Sky refunded the handicaps bets the day the weights where released? So if not before hopefully next Wednesday?
 
ComplyOrDie said:
William Hill not refunding NRNB bets until 24hrs before the race, so a friend has told me.
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All of my nrnb handicap bets that weren't entered have been refunded by William Hill already, so unless they have different rules for everyone then people should be refunded by now or soon enough.
 
riccirich said:
All of my nrnb handicap bets that weren't entered have been refunded by William Hill already, so unless they have different rules for everyone then people should be refunded by now or soon enough.
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Seems mine have been too. William Hill were lying :highly_amused:
 
I’ve been refunded couple of my William hill nrnb ones but not others.
 
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