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Last race today was 4.35pm so as you’d expect went to buy a beer just after 4 pm to be told sorry bars closed . Your bloody joking I said still 30 mins till the last was the reply .Look  she says there’s a sign on the fridge . What about your sign on the bar that says bars closed straight after they jump in the last is my  reply . Sorry  sir it’s closed . Well F me do you want customers or not ?

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1 hour ago, puha said:

Last race today was 4.35pm so as you’d expect went to buy a beer just after 4 pm to be told sorry bars closed . Your bloody joking I said still 30 mins till the last was the reply .Look  she says there’s a sign on the fridge . What about your sign on the bar that says bars closed straight after they jump in the last is my  reply . Sorry  sir it’s closed . Well F me do you want customers or not ?

This behaviour is one of the reasons on course attendances are poor , along with extravagant prices . 

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13 hours ago, puha said:

Last race today was 4.35pm so as you’d expect went to buy a beer just after 4 pm to be told sorry bars closed . Your bloody joking I said still 30 mins till the last was the reply .Look  she says there’s a sign on the fridge . What about your sign on the bar that says bars closed straight after they jump in the last is my  reply . Sorry  sir it’s closed . Well F me do you want customers or not ?

Clubs work to get people on course ... and then when they get them there they pull these sort of stunts. Happens all the time. Totes close so you cant get a bet on. They turn the TVs off showing aussies racing . And close the bars. Absolutely hopeless

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Is it to do with there licence? I know at the stadium in Wellington the bars often close not to far into the second half and I gather it’s something to do with there licence. I could be wrong about that. 

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I used to enjoy cup week until beer was nearly ten bucks and because the place was full of kids just out of school I had to queue for ages and get one drink while my mate holds the table. Cannot be bothered going there now. 

Unbelievable how on a race track just as the better oz races are starting and you are in the mood for socialising and punting after our muddy track racing they want you gone, although they do have to bus those old tote operators back to the home before dark and dinner! 

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Perhaps arjay but times are hard and when you have a crowd and don't make the most of your opportunity why bother. 

Different if a few half drunk people want to just hang in drinking and not punting 

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37 minutes ago, tonkatime said:

Is it to do with there licence? I know at the stadium in Wellington the bars often close not to far into the second half and I gather it’s something to do with there licence. I could be wrong about that. 

At the stadium it will be because there are thousands of excitable types getting on the booze. Puha and the Wanganui gallops somehow doesn't elicit that same image.

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As Chelseacol points out it happens on a number of fronts and has done for years, the turning off the Aussie racing and departure of tote operators gets me and it is pretty much the norm hence I only attend on major days when they play the game. 

Incredible that the industry is fucked yet they do naf all to keep us with a superb experience,  very bloody sad

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