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« on: September 02, 2014, 03:39:14 PM »

Sometime being a bookie - and thus trading in human misery & being responsible fro pretty much all the ills that beset this fair planet - has its upside. From the trade paper (The Racing Post) yesterday, these are the attendances for the BB UK racecourse shows this summer:

Newmarket - 13,449
Newbury - 15,059
Epsom Downs - 6,234
York - 16,992

These figures are, of course, for the entire attendance but at Epsom, the crowd looked like about 6,000 to me.
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2014, 04:17:57 PM »

There was definitely a disparity between the attendance at the two I was at (Epsom and York) but I didn't think it was that much, even taking into account the non-concert-going clientele.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2014, 06:31:17 PM »

Cool.  It's nice to see that a lot of people are still being exposed to that great music. Thanks. Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2014, 01:23:57 PM »

Andrew, as Epsom is a lot lower than the others, I just wanted to know if this was due to capacity or slower ticket sales?
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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2014, 03:15:48 PM »

Think it was a capacity issue - as you know, the stage was off to one side of the grandstand. This was the crowd in 2011, when the stage was almost square-on to the main stand:



The attendance that day (7/7/11) was 8991.
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2014, 12:52:32 PM »

I'm in the front row of this pic!  Cheesy

Yes, I really didn't like the set up this year, you had to stand on a gradient and I just didn't feel comfortable with it. The front row also seemed shorter which also annoyed me.

Still, it was a great evening.
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