Racing failing in marketing stakes as ‘Glorious’ Goodwood loses racegoers

Racing failing in marketing stakes as ‘Glorious’ Goodwood loses racegoers

Track’s MD bemoans sport’s failure to turn the once-a-year punters at historic meeting into regular racing fans

Shortly after the Stewards’ Cup 12 months ago, the brave – or foolhardy – racegoers who had stuck it out until the feature race on the final day of “Glorious” Goodwood started to squelch their way towards the car parks or the bus queue to escape from the Downs after the stewards decided to abandon the remainder of the card.

“It poured down from the Wednesday,” Adam Waterworth, Goodwood’s managing director, recalled this week. “Some of those people who came last year won’t be returning, because frankly, they had a thoroughly miserable time, but you’d like to think that with the week we’ve had this year, people will remember that this is what Goodwood should be about, and last year will become more of a distant memory.”

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