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Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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Does anyone ever apply for these?

If so, how long does it take to hear if your application has been successful?

I've only ever applied once, successfully, but can't remember how long it takes to be notified.

I've applied for 2 tickets for the Perth meeting on Sunday June 8, B365 Gold Cup - what a joke - Day so there might be a spare going if I'm successful. Mrs O says she has an alternative engagement that day. Apparently she has paint to watch dry.

I'm not sure either of my older brothers who live up this way would be interested but they will get first refusal.

Maybe counting my chickens before their eggs are fertilised but I was just wondering how long the process takes as I plan to travel via public transport..
 
Desert Orchid said:
Does anyone ever apply for these?

If so, how long does it take to hear if your application has been successful?

I've only ever applied once, successfully, but can't remember how long it takes to be notified.

I've applied for 2 tickets for the Perth meeting on Sunday June 8, B365 Gold Cup - what a joke - Day so there might be a spare going if I'm successful. Mrs O says she has an alternative engagement that day. Apparently she has paint to watch dry.

I'm not sure either of my older brothers who live up this way would be interested but they will get first refusal.

Maybe counting my chickens before their eggs are fertilised but I was just wondering how long the process takes as I plan to travel via public transport..
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I applied for tickets for York, last October and Cheltenham in April. Both times, I got confirmation 5 days before the event. Cheltenham was very good, as they had VIP tickets there - basically a designated area for the day and free tea, coffee and biscuits throughout and a couple of their faces to do a presentation beforehand (though I missed that bit).
 
Cheers, Mr W.

When I went to Ayr a number of years back they had a big tent which was supposed to have tea, coffee and biscuits but I arrive about an hour before racing and they were already in very short supply.

I don't recall any kind of presentation.
 
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Cheers, Mr W.

When I went to Ayr a number of years back they had a big tent which was supposed to have tea, coffee and biscuits but I arrive about an hour before racing and they were already in very short supply.

I don't recall any kind of presentation.
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When I went to York, there was nothing other than entry to the course. At Cheltenham the Tea and Coffee flowed throughout the day and decent small packets of biscuits were available too. I think Dan Barber and Stuart Machin were advertised as going to be there, but I don’t know if they actually did appear, as I only got there shortly before the first race. I’m sure they are good guys, but that aspect of the offer doesn’t appeal to me.

Hope you get your tickets and enjoy a great day.
 
Got the tickets by email this morning and the RTV badge arrived in the post later.

All good to go.

It looks like it's just admission tickets. No mention of a meeting place or marquee for tea/coffee.

The 'big' race is worth £34k and the current topweight is rated 151, which is decent for Perth.

The rest of the card might well be shite but it's a wee bus run.

There might be a spare ticket going if anyone was thinking of going. Just waiting on the brothers getting back to confirm they're not really interested.
 
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As stated ad nauseum, I don't subscribe to RacingUK, but my most long-standing (38 years) friend "Leafy" does, "Leafy" just loves a freebie and has gone to a few of these.

They're not for me, free tickets are all well and good, but who's paying my travel expenses to and from the track?

Plus I don't do being starstruck generally and I'd be about as likely to be wowed by meeting someone who works for the channel as I would be by meeting Orimbar Slattery, the fictious bent trainer/bookmaker/whatever I once invented and occasionally call upon for absurd online literary purposes, along with Col Archaius Tory (retired), a man who makes Liz Truss look like a Marxist.

Anyway, have a good time, Maurice.

Seeing as even your own family evidently wouldn't be seen dead in public with you, maybe you could tout any spares outside?

I look forward to hearing about your arrest on the evening news.
 
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Yes, I've mentioned before I once won, courtesy of the old Handicap Book, two free tickets for the PTS Laurels day at Glorious Goodwood. They gave six previous winners and the contest involved deciding in which order they would finish with the correct distances between them. I got the right order and four of the distances, enough to win.

I was a bit miffed when all that came through was two tickets. There might have been car park tickets (but they might have come with a hospitality day at Haydock) but I'd presumed the idea behind "win a day out at Glorious Goodwood" would have included travel tickets and maybe even a hotel for the night.

Can you imagine how much it might have cost me to get from Clydebank to Goodwood and how long it would have taken?

I think I used the tickets for arse paper.

I wouldn't go to these things in order to meet anyone 'off the telly'. That's just not me. A fellow forumite, yes, as I have travelled to Ascot, Cheltenham and Newbury pretty much exclusively for that purpose.

But Perth is a lovely wee course and I can get there and back for nothing with my bus pass and I have no other plans for the day. I knew Mrs O wouldn't be interested in coming with me so it's a day away from her too :p.
 
I just googled it - 469 miles, 938 miles round trip, and I think you'd have been looking at £125 in fuel.

I thought twice about spending a tenner in fuel to drive from Hampshire to Sandown Park and back last Thursday with a free ticket. 😂

I think you'll have a cracking day at Perth - enjoy!
 
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I actually meant from Clydebank to Goodwood and back - I should have made that clear!

But Hampshire to Perth and back wouldn't be much different, I'd guess.

Enjoy not being in my company tomorrow - billions do every day! 😂
 
On the train home. The place was rammed. Like Ayr in Gold Cup day. I tend to avoid short priced favourites so I had a bit of a nightmare even punting to fun money.
 
A bus run and a couple of pints usually passes for a decent day but I’m not sure I’ll be rushing back. The racing was too low grade for my liking and most of those attending were the younger set dressed up as though attending a wedding. Not really my idea of a good day’s racing. We live and learn.
 
You sound like me - so you should be scared, very scared 😂 - I had a pleasant enough free evening at Sandown Park the other day, but it might well be next year's corresponding meeting before I can be bothered to return and I gave a Derby Day freebie the old body swerve as well!

Still, like you say, life is a perpetual learning curve.
 


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