Racecourse hits back at national newspaper claims Options

[Andy Capp]

Despite having one of the best years for attendance, it seems the racecourse lost £2m last year. The land sold for housing will more than make up for that, but I wonder what will happen when the money from that has gone?

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/racecou...ewspaper-claims

[spartacus]

Racecourses are going the same way that High Street shops are, with their (failing) competition with online retail. They can't compete with BetFred and the 1000s of other online betting sites you can participate in from your living room, without having to get dressed up and end up getting into a scrap with a bus load of Cardiff boys on a stag do..... .

Racecourses are becoming more of a very expensive luxury and people are being more choosy where they spend their leisure time. They don't have some God Given right to continue to exist in perpetuity....

So in future if the actual horse racing that punters bet on is a televised event from Shanghai rather than from Newbury with Claire Balding getting her face on-screen, then it's 'win-win'

[blackdog]

So in future if the actual horse racing that punters bet on is a televised event from Shanghai rather than from Newbury with Claire Balding getting her face on-screen, then it's 'win-win'

Not much of a win round here - hundreds (thousands?) of jobs down the toilet.

[Andy Capp]

Not much of a win round here - hundreds (thousands?) of jobs down the toilet.

Look on the bright side: there 'll be plenty of jobs for EU immigrants building the new houses in its place!