SteelbackDon wrote:
Each to their own I suppose but I can only speak from personal experience. Since going I've been to Huntingdon and Newmarket. It's great fun.
At Cheltenham I'm picking a horse and having a £5 flutter. Nothing huge- £35 spent on that, £30 on beer. £100 for 6 hours. And if you win 1 race you've got a portion of your day back. So far it's cost me £20 on the first year and last year I walked away £5 up.
All jokes aside, I've never been to horse or greyhound racing and it sounds like a fun day or evening out, especially one of the quieter meetings. But the idea of going to a big meeting like Cheltenham, with so many people just there to be seen and get on the piss, is definitely not my idea of fun. I've got family who live in Cheltenham and they've always told me that Festival week is a nightmare.