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[Guinness Village]

More free £5 bets at hills shops on machines today. For use tomorrow. I got embarrassed and left after 16 of them

[Kautostar]

More free £5 bets at hills shops on machines today. For use tomorrow. I got embarrassed and left after 16 of them

Be careful when placing them as it’s meant to be 1 per customer, they will cancel them if you take the piss. Go to a few different shops to use them would be my advice

[Guinness Village]

I did ask, and was told to carry on. It does stipulate one per customer on the ticket, but I stuck 14 on today without a problem.
every little helps

[Kautostar]

I did ask, and was told to carry on. It does stipulate one per customer on the ticket, but I stuck 14 on today without a problem.
every little helps

Fair enough just depends on your cashier, some are jobsworths.

[FinalFurlong91]

Fair enough just depends on your cashier, some are jobsworths.

Wouldn't be the cashiers that cancel them anyway

They'd get a phone call from upstairs and be told to

[Runragged]

Looks like they have a 'Bet £10 get £5 free' promotion thing on.

[Guinness Village]

On the machines in shop. I presume it’s to get people in shop tomorrow

[charlie]

I cant be the only one that thinks it's ridiculous that race fixtures are being called off due to frost in 2024? We live in an era with some of the most sophisticated technology available and we cant stop some grass from getting frozen when a multi million pound Saturday race card is at stake. Even if the solution was as basic as fixing heated lamps to agricultural equipment and sending a few poor sods out there to drive around in circles all night, why hasn't a solution been found? Would cost fuck all what ive just suggested and thats an off the cuff idea. Rant over, probably

[darlojim]

I cant be the only one that thinks it's ridiculous that race fixtures are being called off due to frost in 2024? We live in an era with some of the most sophisticated technology available and we cant stop some grass from getting frozen when a multi million pound Saturday race card is at stake. Even if the solution was as basic as fixing heated lamps to agricultural equipment and sending a few poor sods out there to drive around in circles all night, why hasn't a solution been found? Would cost fuck all what ive just suggested and thats an off the cuff idea. Rant over, probably

I do often think the same

SURELY there has to be some way, which is more cost effective than losing a whole card at the track? Especially these more premium meetings.

[charlie]

I do often think the same

SURELY there has to be some way, which is more cost effective than losing a whole card at the track? Especially these more premium meetings.

Ive wrestled with this one many times!!! Surely indeed!!

[Big Bucks]

Father in Law: I've booked a long weekend in March for you and my daughter to enjoy a break.

Me: AM I a bad man for shiting myself and first thing in my head was fuck is this Cheltenham week!

Nb: its the week after

[Liammet]

Father in Law: I've booked a long weekend in March for you and my daughter to enjoy a break.

Me: AM I a bad man for shiting myself and first thing in my head was fuck is this Cheltenham week!

Nb: its the week after

It could be cancelled and rescheduled for the week after

[Stormez]

I cant be the only one that thinks it's ridiculous that race fixtures are being called off due to frost in 2024? We live in an era with some of the most sophisticated technology available and we cant stop some grass from getting frozen when a multi million pound Saturday race card is at stake. Even if the solution was as basic as fixing heated lamps to agricultural equipment and sending a few poor sods out there to drive around in circles all night, why hasn't a solution been found? Would cost fuck all what ive just suggested and thats an off the cuff idea. Rant over, probably

I think this every time it happens, it’s ridiculous.

Don’t know if they still do but the football clubs without undersoil heating used to use heated fans under the covers. I know it’s a larger area but must be doable? Or just have the covers themselves heated? Like giant electric blankets!

[Atlantic Viking]

You're talking about trying to heat up an entire racetrack in, generally, open countryside? Good luck with that! My club for all its faults has a great pitch that is about 10% synthentic, it had frost covers and state of the art lamps (if there is such a thing) that they used in the way talked about here, both games lost to frozen pitches this week, they couldnt have done much more. Made a change from both games lost in the usual manner at least. Remember a few years back Rochdale having tons of barrels burning away all over the pitch to try thaw it out didn't work.

[charlie]

You're talking about trying to heat up an entire racetrack in, generally, open countryside? Good luck with that! My club for all its faults has a great pitch that is about 10% synthentic, it had frost covers and state of the art lamps (if there is such a thing) that they used in the way talked about here, both games lost to frozen pitches this week, they couldnt have done much more. Made a change from both games lost in the usual manner at least. Remember a few years back Rochdale having tons of barrels burning away all over the pitch to try thaw it out didn't work.

We sent men to the moon mate, keeping some ground around 0 degrees overnight shouldn't be this challenging