Jockey Club Reveals Attendance Jump

Jockey Club Racecourses has announced crowds at its 15 racecourses in 2014 grew by 3.3% year-on-year to 1.8 million from its 362 fixtures.

From staging roughly a quarter of British racing’s fixtures, the UK racecourse group – which stages events including the Cheltenham Festival and Crabbie’s Grand National- welcomed around a third of all spectators of the sport nationwide.

According to official figures released for 2014, attendances at UK racecourses as a whole increased by 2.4% year-on-year to 5.8 million.

Paul Fisher, group managing director of Jockey Club Racecourses, said: “We’ve been working hard to offer a top quality experience to our customers on the back of £175 million of investment into our facilities in the last decade.

“In particular we are seeing great excitement around our major festivals and we’re pleased with the success of various promotional initiatives and our loyalty programme, Rewards4Racing that is helping to increase the frequency some of our customers return.”