2 Blokes Go Racing

About Us

What is 2 blokes Go Racing?

2 Blokes Go Racing is an idea that evolved from.....2 blokes going racing. It is reviews (via a blog) of a day at the races at racecourses up and down the country through the eyes of 2 ordinary 'bloke on the street' racegoers in easy to understand, no frills, no big fancy words, no hyperbole (hmm, is that a fancy word?) plain English.

The 2 blokes in question are Nige (Legin) Graham and Jules (Cheg) Rea

What you can expect

The aim is to give honest, non-biased opinions, thoughts and accounts on a race day experience at a particular racecourse, and on a particular day. We rate areas of that experience with either a thumbs up 👍 'Yay' or thumbs down 👎 'Neigh' (see what we did there?). The amount of thumb ups / downs awarded, to a maximum of 3*, is an indicator of how good or bad it is.

Subsequent visits to the same racecourse may well prove to be different depending on the size of the meeting, day of the week, time of year, weather, etc. They will be reviewed separately.

From time to time we'll also undertake stable visits. We'll give you our honest opinion on those too.

At the end of the year, we'll name our favourite racecourse(s) based on those visited....and perhaps the worst.

We have nothing to gain from any review that we do.

* For 2023 we initially increased the number of yays / neighs awarded from three to five as we felt that it allows more accuracy. However, on reflection, we've decided that although this would indeed be true, it would be unfair to implement it until ALL racecourses have been visited and reviewed (for comparison and 'end of year' awards purposes). Those racecourses that were originally reviewed using the new 5 yay / neigh rating have been adjusted.

New for 2023

2blokesgoracing reviews are very much our opinion so, for 2023, we may collar and interview (and I use the word 'interview' loosely as we're no Michael Parkinson / Jonathan Ross) unsuspecting fellow racegoers and ask them their opinions on certain points....something like '2 blokes, 5 questions'. So be aware 😉

Why?

Well...

a) Why not?

b) As far as we know, there's nothing out there like this

c) It may be of use / interest to would-be racegoers thinking of visiting a reviewed racecourse (so they know what to expect)

d) Racecourses with poor ratings can (hopefully) improve on those areas to make it a more enjoyable experience for racegoers....happy customers are repeat customers

e) Racecourses with positive ratings can give themselves a jolly good pat on the back

f) We were bored