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ComplyOrDie said:
William Hill not refunding NRNB bets until 24hrs before the race, so a friend has told me.
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I was told by Paddy Power today that I would not be refunded till the 48 hr declarations
They were all shop bets ,Presume it’s the same for online
 
opatcho said:
I have 10 pts sitting with hills, NRNB on jeroboam

With my current form, glad they are holding it until final decs, gives me some extra credits going into the fez :-)
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Ive just had all my will hill nrnb's refunded..
 
opatcho said:
I have 10 pts sitting with hills, NRNB on jeroboam

With my current form, glad they are holding it until final decs, gives me some extra credits going into the fez :-)
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I've had my jeroboam bet refunded by hills and some of my grangeclere west bets but not all of them, seems strange !
 
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Bandwidth limit exceeded 509....crashed for a couple of hours
 
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Swan got a ride today at Thurles 14:53 from memory I think he needs 2 more Chase wins to ride in the 4 miler?
 
BigChaang said:
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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I'm just catching up on this whole Cheltenham v DRF debate, and it's been great to hear everyones' views on it. I've been going to all 3 or 4 days of the Festival for over 25 years and a group of us have also been over for every DRF weekend since it started, and I find those six days of the year extremely enjoyable, although they have their differences. Cheltenham has always been extremely busy during the Festival, but the addition of the new stands and facilities at the back of those stands a number of years ago made everything less crowded than it had been previously, and encouraged a group of us to start getting membership including the Festival, and to watch from the new stands rather than Best Mate where we had previously gone.

No-one would be able to claim that Cheltenham's cheap, and the DRF is a fraction of the cost for ticket prices, and pints of Guinness are £7.50 at Cheltenham v €6.80 (i.e. £5.80) at Leopardstown, and the addition of the app on which you could pre-order drinks this year at Leopardstown was a major bonus. It's noticeably busier on the Saturday of the DRF than the Sunday, but it's still generally been OK to get a drink between races (with the exception a few years ago when Ireland were playing in the Six Nations at the Aviva on the Saturday and all of the hosptality staff were there rather than at the track, which was a bit of a nightmare), and you can always get up into the stands and get a decent view of the races. The quality of racing at the DRF is fantastic, with numerous Grade 1s over the two days, and although some of the field sizes this year were a bit disappointing (as they were the year that they let the ground get too firm), you still get to see a very high percentage of the very best Irish horses have their last runs before Cheltenham, in races that are significant in their own right.

Having said all that (and this might just be the way that I personally view it), I'm always watching the DRF races with a view to how that might affect things in six weeks time at the Festival, whether it's checking out the state of antepost bets, confirming a shortie at the head a of a market, a few bubbles bursting, or just a few more clues as to how Mullins might shuffle his pack around, and the main event is still yet to come. I don't think that anything can beat the atmosphere and excitement that's generated at the Festival, and to hear the noise when the commentator calls a short priced favourite as still being on the bridle coming to the home turn is just something else - for my part, I'm going to carry on enjoying both for as long as health and circumstances permit, and accept them both as what they are.
 
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Will there be individual threads up this year? Supreme, ballymore etc
 
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