Riccarton Racecourse

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 12

Riccarton Racecourse

Sir,— Surely ft is about time that the facilities at Riccarton racecourse were improved. Over the recent race week there was not a decent meal to be had by the public. In- the bar, glasses were dipped in and out of a sink of Water all day. There was still lipstick on some

glasses, and It seems the safest thing to do is to get a dean glass and keep It in one’s pocket all day. The women’s toilets are a disgrace, and seemed not to be cleaned from one race day to the next. I am not the only one to notice all this because I have heard a number of people comment on these disgraceful facilities, and if it looks like this to local people, what does it look like to visitors?—Yours, etc., HYGIENE.

August 20. 1968. [The secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club (Mr F. T. H. Bell) replies: “Modern glass-washing machines are installed in all bars at Riocarton Racecourse. If ‘Hygiene* cares to inform me of the particular bar to which the complaint refers, I shall take the matter up with the club’s caterers, who employ the barmen. I can assure ’Hygiene’ that not only are the women’s toilets thoroughly cleaned between race days, but every effort is made to maintain them in a clean condition during each race day.”]