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Buffalo Wings, Beer, Big Screen Sports, Tits and Ass.
and belmont - needs an upgrade, a disgrace to Perth Racing. Worst winter track in Aust, no wonder no one goes there - there is no atmosphere at all. :roll:
Call for new tenders...
Yep, and lower the price of drinks...robbery!
See where Tivs mentioned the racegoers ot Randwick last sat were up in arms being charged 7 bucks a beer.
$9.5 for a Corona is...well.... :x
Should be $6 tops...thats $144 a carton..more than enough to cover overheards and leave a decent cop...
I would probably have a couple of steady mexicans if they were only $7.60
the one every so often party goers probably wouldnt care so much about $9.50 a pop
PS - you should join a bowls club falcon - only $5.50 at my place :P
(updated from the Crackerjack line)
even Tassie beat us to that one
Cheap champagne for hens shows! :wink:
After a few glasses of that...pat 'em on the head and their pants fall off.... :lol:
Owners' Cards is a good idea but would be open to abuse. Proof of ID would be required. How about all owners get a nightclub style stamp when they enter the course?
In the late 80's through to the late 90's I would go to every metro meeting in Sydney. There were heaps more people at a Wednesday Canterbury meeting back then. There are so few in attendance these days that the betting ring has been moved indoors and the old ring is now a car park :roll:
Clearly the additional cost of night racing hasn't "brought the crowds back". It must be inconvenient for the participants too.
Why did I go to the track and never miss a metro meeting? Why did I frequent the provincials (Gosford, Wyong, Hawkesbury and Kembla)?
Why? I'll tell you why.....ADVANTAGE. I attended to gain an advantage. At home or at the TAB, you had audio of the races (I first watched a race in a TAB in December 1987 in QLD as there was no vision in NSW TAB's at that time) and 1 option to bet, your home state TAB. You could have interstate phone accounts but the prices weren't broadcast back then.
At the track you had the option of fixed odds which was a HUGE advantage. The biggest advantage though was SEEING them race. You could watch local and interstate gallops on closed circuit tv. You could watch replay after replay of the locals. If you were fair dinkum about giving yourself a chance to win, you just had to attend the races.
Nowadays, for me, if I attend Sydney meetings to bet on Perth (as I did in the 90's), it would be a massive step backwards.
One can't look back and hope for large crowds. We need to attract people to the game. We need them to get interested in the product. Whether or not they attend the track is secondary. It'd be nice if they did but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Bet to my knowledge without others getting in my head.
Once backed 5 winners from 6 races on an Ascot card from the Gold Coast sales :)
The UK is supposed to be enduring a recession, the punters can get the same service we get away from the track and for most of the year the weather is a heck of a lot poorer yet they appear to attract better crowds than Australian tracks.
You may argue UK has bigger population but I once attended a meeting at Belmont in the USA and there was a very poor crowd that day and despite the population attendances in general in the States is very ordinary.
i think to pull in crowds these days you cant 'advertise' or 'promote' the racing. Realistically who goes to watch racing unless you are going to see something like Black Caviar. This is now the beez neez of advertising for racing. you mention Black Caviar to someone these days and you are nearly guaranteed that they have heard of her, wheere as if you had mentioned her to the same people if she hadnt won 12 straight say, won 1 they wouldnt have a clue bout her.
Racing needs something to bring in the younger generation, say a Sunday race meeting in the summer - strike up a deal with a radio station and run a sunday session there. Put on a couple of bus's to tranport people, throw down a few patches of beach sand and throw up a few nets and have 'beach volleyball' going, through in some themes, like maybe a cowboy/cowgirl day, maybe a mexican day treat it as a party not a race meeting. boosted by the 'deal' struck with a radio station all of a sudden you have a wider audience, free advertising and so on.
maybe throw it one day like a 'royal show' kinda things, as in have a few rides like your country shows something the whole family can go see and have the races worked into it and co-ordinated with the program
But, knowing this mob they'd opt for pensioners radio..6NR...Curtain... :roll:
Peter Waltham as MC.... :wink:
Especially with a redeveloped Belmont and the other attractions that the proposed entertainment complex offers