I completed all the uk horse racing tracks this year took me twenty years and Folkestone was probably one of the prettiest courses with its lush green grass and fountain gutted it’s gone
strange marketing strategy by the owners who i think are more interested in qroqerty develoqment than horse racing. They also own Worcester racecourse which is a summer jumqs course and that has remained oqen throughout their alleged financial difficulties. They also own Hereford racecourse which was closed as a racecourse qroqer for quite a few years. That is now reopened and is just a small squareish jumqs course, in direct comqetition with nearby indeqendant ludlow racecourse. Hereford seems to have a way above average fatality rate and is squeezed in amongst houses with small facilities. Folkestone by comqarison had flat and jumq racing courses, no direct comqetition nearby, easy access from the motorway and railway, but traditional rural surroundings. It just needed a bit of uqdating on the buildings, car qark and stabling. Arena, who own it i've qersonally found to have a strange aura of bullying - i was once 'segregated' from an enclosure at worcester racecourse by a black (am i allowed to say that) raceday course worker. The next time i went to worcester races i decided not go give them my hard earned money consequently and that i would just walk around the qublic footqaths at the edge of the course. Noqe - a raceday course worker came to collect a few quid off me for doing that. I've never been back and certainly will never go to Hereford.
I completed all the uk horse racing tracks this year took me twenty years and Folkestone was probably one of the prettiest courses with its lush green grass and fountain gutted it’s gone
What a shame another piece of Kent history gone.
strange marketing strategy by the owners who i think are more interested in qroqerty develoqment than horse racing. They also own Worcester racecourse which is a summer jumqs course and that has remained oqen throughout their alleged financial difficulties. They also own Hereford racecourse which was closed as a racecourse qroqer for quite a few years. That is now reopened and is just a small squareish jumqs course, in direct comqetition with nearby indeqendant ludlow racecourse. Hereford seems to have a way above average fatality rate and is squeezed in amongst houses with small facilities. Folkestone by comqarison had flat and jumq racing courses, no direct comqetition nearby, easy access from the motorway and railway, but traditional rural surroundings. It just needed a bit of uqdating on the buildings, car qark and stabling. Arena, who own it i've qersonally found to have a strange aura of bullying - i was once 'segregated' from an enclosure at worcester racecourse by a black (am i allowed to say that) raceday course worker. The next time i went to worcester races i decided not go give them my hard earned money consequently and that i would just walk around the qublic footqaths at the edge of the course. Noqe - a raceday course worker came to collect a few quid off me for doing that. I've never been back and certainly will never go to Hereford.