RACECOURSE/RACEHORSE OF THE YEAR AWARDS
RACECOURSE of the YEAR AWARDS 2006CHELTENHAM VOTED RACECOURSE OF THE YEAR 2006
Members of The Racegoers Club have elected Cheltenham as overall winner of the highly prestigious Racecourse of the Year Award. Cheltenham is clearly an extremely popular venue with Racegoers Club members, having won the coveted award for the last three years and eleven times in the last fourteen years.
With over 5,000 keen and loyal racegoers countrywide, The Racegoers Club is the biggest racegoing club in the country. Competition for the awards has been strong due to the vast number of improvements made at many racecourses in the past year, and it is a superb achievement by all of the courses voted winners in the various categories.
The full list of regional winners is as follows:
Edward Gillespie, Managing Director at Cheltenham Racecourse commented, "We're delighted to be voted as Racecourse of the Year by the Racegoers Club for the eleventh time in the last fourteen years. As the Racegoers Club is the largest racegoing club in the country it means a great deal to our entire team that its members continue to enjoy their racing experiences at Cheltenham. We thank them for their loyal support and look forward to welcoming them to Cheltenham in 2007".