Campaign for Better Dress-Codes at Saratoga
 

and other American racetracks. I'm starting it!

Have you ever noticed when the 1st race on Thursdays at Saratoga is run-is that everyone in the paddock looks well dressed?

Well that's how it should be for every race. It's an absolute disgrace-especially amongst members of the media-that people wearing jeans are allowed admittance to the paddock.

I agree! :)

What makes it a disgrace at all, much less an absolute disgrace? It is a racetrack. There are people in this world who earn a decent living who do not own anything other than casual clothes.

Steve, please start a new forum with the title "The Sewer" --- and make this lousy thread the first to get moved into it.

TIA,
DrugS

yeah, i agree!

people shouldnt be allowed to wear pants at all in the paddock!

now that's the type of dress code campaign i'd sign up for!

You're that opposed to paddock dress code?

You're also talking to Steve who is one of the sharpest dressers I've seen at the track.

We live in a world of appearance over substance.....luckily so many of us here have both.

I don't care how people dress at a racetrack. I feel sorry for those that do.

I think the opposite, the world is growing more and more casual. I do get your general sentiment and agree with what you mean but unfortunately people rarely look past the surface.

We are both too young to know, but I was just speaking with someone who recalls a time when people came to the track dressed like they were going to church.

Knowing Saratogabrit, I think you take his post in a harsher word than his intention. I don't think it's too much to ask that Saratoga enforces the tradition of paddock dress code but that is just me because I enjoy dressing nice, but can understand that others don't.

As for Saratogabrit, he is extremely down to earth and I think everyone else here who knows him would say the same.

I only mentioned a dress-code for the paddock. Personally I wouldn't stop at the paddock and go for the Club House as well. What's the point in having a differential between the Granstand and the Club House when's there's no difference other than $2?

The whole picnic area is great. The Granstand is great too. But the Club House and especially the paddock should have stricter dress-codes than at present.

Australian racing has surged after a massive campaign to get young people to dress up to go to the track. It's always been that way in Britain-most grooms wear suits when they are leading their horses up at the races.

they also fawn all over some lady that lives in a castle.
this ain't Britain.

Take it to Pace Advantage!

They are on a roll with these campagins --- and they are home to the poster Andicap --- who is unquestionably the sharpest dresser I've ever come across in all my years of going to the track.

Perhaps the British dress well to obscure the fact they may well be the ugliest people on the earth. Too many centuries of being on an island with a limited gene pool.

I would rate it one notch below "making the bobblehead dolls look more like the person they are supposed to be" on the importance chart.

And why should that matter.
And yes, I'm a Brit, but live in the States
:confused:

I'm sure they will do so when Discreet Cat's is released.

Wow Saratoga IS fancy if some are worried about what people are wearing.
At Arlington I am just happy if people are wearing anything at all.

Perhaps the British dress well to obscure the fact they may well be the ugliest people on the earth. Too many centuries of being on an island with a limited gene pool

That's a low blow. Sounds like Morty in disguise. I'd better look in the mirror to make sure I'm not too ugly
:rolleyes:

I can tell this thread is going in the right direction

Ian...you aint TOO ugly, but you surely aint as good looking as me either:cool:

Behave you redneck

:D

southerner dammit!!!!

at least your better looking that Scavs.

I had a guy with a British accent shouting at me on the phone earlier today, it was quite an amusing event.

Scav is now officially my adopted Brit brother. My mother will be pleased

:D

Actually, I'm old enough to be Scav's father ouch

:eek:

you are old enough to be his grandfather:D

whatever

:p

I'm not interested in Britain. It's far too stuffy at the races there. I haven't been racing there for nearly 2 years.

But i am interested in how the Australians have encouraged young people to dress up to go the track because Australia is an even more laid back country than the US and the sport there has surged to a masive dregree-25% of the adult population goes at least once a year to the track.

Although they are outsiders (but not as long a shot as they were)-if Capital Play gets the NYRA franchise there will major rule changes for dress codes.

I can just see some of the US southern tracks, trying to enforce a paddock dress code. you'd have a bunch of guys dressed up looking like Jethro Bodine in his Sunday best suit, three sizes too small, clip on bowtie.

you say that like something is wrong with them...

Just like the way Kev dresses to the track
:D :D

I find it hard to believe that the sport is surging based on a new paddock dress code.

"Being Seen" appeals to the younger generation...why do you think Martini bars and lounges have taken off so well in most major cities?

Australian racing is surging because young people are being encouraged to dress-up to go to the track. It's the only country in the Western world where the sport has grown in popularity over the last 10-15 years. Going racing is now the trendy thing for young people to go.

I'll have you know that in Chicago, even without a dress code, there is no place more trendy than Hawthorne.

Does that husky gal, Rosie, with the lamme miniskirts and 5 foot wide hats still hang at da 'thorne?

Yeah, this guy might actually be track executive material....

Enforcing a dress code in the paddock will surely solve all of racings endless problems.

He's even topped my brilliant idea of strip-clubs at the track.

Link?

They had strippers at Balmoral Park a month or so ago. It's been done.

are trendy types that want to be seen going to head over to Ozone Park in the afternoon?

which tracks in the US do you envision people flocking to at night as an alternative to a Martini bar or a lounge? Mountaineer? Lone Star? LosAl? Balmoral?