Record Crowds At JCR

2015 saw a record number of people go racing at Jockey Club Racecourses around Britain. Over 1.9m people attended the 15 racetracks operated by The Jockey Club Racecourses, an increase of 8.5% on the previous year's total with the average crowd per fixture up 16.9% to 5,794. Jockey Club Racecourses operate some of Britain's flagship tracks including Epsom, Cheltenham, Aintree, Newmarket and Sandown and speaking to The Racing Post their group managing director Paul Fisher said, “More people than ever before went racing with the Jockey Club in 2015 and we must credit the horses and horsemen at the heart of our sport at the same time as our hardworking teams whose efforts allow us to reinvest all profits from staging our racedays back into British racing”. Fisher felt no one stimulus lay behind the record attendance rather a combination of factors as he added, “There are many local or event-specific reasons for such a strong overall performance in 2015. That ranges from the economic recovery in Ireland and the hospitality resurgence helping to achieve a record crowd for the festival at Cheltenham right through to the scramble to see AP McCoy's final day in the saddle at Sandown Park for the Jumps Finale in April. No single event has caused it.”