NEWBURY
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Date 1954 Cost £50
A number of visitors to the site have questioned why these Newbury badges are non-enameled. I am grateful to Bill Scriven who makes the following observations, “ I am not certain Newbury executives will know what they are, although they do have a similar unenamelled badge in their racecourse collection that is dated 1951. However, they also have enamelled ladies and gents badges for that year.
It’s possible that they were for one of the other
membership classes-The Story of Newbury Racecourse notes that the 1951 club subscriptions
included Original Members Gentlemen and Ladies (£12-12-6) , Gentleman and Lady (£25),
Gentleman or Lady single (£14), Trainer member and Lady (£5), Gentleman and
My own personal guess is that they are either NH or Trainer Members badges, although I suppose that it is possible Newbury underestimated the demand for full members badges and had to order more at short notice, hence the lack of enamel. However, that seems unlikely given that it happened in successive years.”