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It’s more like 70k but yeah, agreed. 250k is unique visitors to the course that week.
There was probably more transmission in the rammed pubs and betting shops. But that’s every pub within a 20 mile radius for four days of solid drugs & alcoholic before dispersing across the UK and Ireland. Madness 📈
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Letting Cheltenham go ahead seemed like a bad idea at the time let alone now; 250,000 pissed up people cramming into the paddock for each race was never going to be helpful. Distinctly remember the ITV rhetoric being along the lines of the meet being a final hurrah before those bloody politicians end our fun - strange