The Pavilion
Thirteen events a year, and the private rooms we open inside them. A villa, a terrace, a berth or a suite, staffed by us, with our own chef and our own suppliers. No stands, no branding walls, no badge queues.
A room goes ahead when it reaches eighty percent of what it costs to hold. Until then the gap is shown as it is.
Each bar is a room, its height how far it has got. Gold means it has cleared eighty percent and goes ahead. A small mark is an event with no room open around it yet.
The race that stops a nation, run at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November. A carnival of four days rather than one, where the racing is only part of what people come for.
Two minutes of racing at Churchill Downs that the American calendar organises itself around, and the Oaks the day before. Run every year since 1875.
No rooms are open yet. The season is the calendar we build them around. How patronage works.