Breeder's Cup 2007 - Monmouth

[ninetoone]

Anyone else going?

[ShadowRoll]

Originally Posted by ninetoone

Anyone else going?

Yes. But I'll be spending all my time inside because I made the mistake of getting @#$%&!!! general admission tickets.

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

Yes. But I'll be spending all my time inside because I made the mistake of getting @#$%&!!! general admission tickets.

I'm not so sure that was a mistake. I would prefer to know the weather forcast and buy tickets on ebay rather than prepay $250 and take a chance on freezing my azz off or getting soaked. If the weather is nice and you can't get a decent price on ebay the paddock area is an outdoor option.

[smuthg]

I actually got tickets to both days in the "Second Chance" lottery. Not familiar with Monmouth Park but my tickets are in the "500 Section'... real interested to see how Monmouth handles the crowd and what the weather will be like.

Anyone with working knowledge of Monmouth Park have any insight on Section 500? Good? Bad?

[Bigsmc]

Mrs Bigs and I will be there.

[viscount26]

Originally Posted by smuthg

I actually got tickets to both days in the "Second Chance" lottery. Not familiar with Monmouth Park but my tickets are in the "500 Section'... real interested to see how Monmouth handles the crowd and what the weather will be like.

Anyone with working knowledge of Monmouth Park have any insight on Section 500? Good? Bad?

My buddy owns horses at Monmouth so I'll ask him. It maybe in the temporary bleechers though

[viscount26]

I have a seating chart for the BC, but it's too large to upload to this thread.
If anyone needs it, please e-mail me at Ian@Andrewsbc.com and I will send it as a pdf. I will be on vacation next week, but will be back on October 9th

Cheers

[Holland Hacker]

Originally Posted by smuthg

I actually got tickets to both days in the "Second Chance" lottery. Not familiar with Monmouth Park but my tickets are in the "500 Section'... real interested to see how Monmouth handles the crowd and what the weather will be like.

Anyone with working knowledge of Monmouth Park have any insight on Section 500? Good? Bad?

Those seats look to be very good seats, although they will be temporary bleachers. They are directly infront of the clubhouse and on the apron so pray for no rain, as if we all weren't going to be doing that anyway. All in all not a bad place to see the races from. You will be past the wire but not by much depending on where the actual seats are it could be upto 100 yards, probably not much more.



As an aside I'm kinda pissed at the NJSEA with the "Second Chance" offering and the way it all played out. In my mind they should have reassigned o0r at least offered the people who got tickets via the lottery the better seats and then made their old seats available in the "second chance" offering. So as it turns out by "winning" the lottery I actually "lost" and got worse seats than I could have gotten in the second chance. Enough venting.

As it turns out my seats are somewhere on the clubhouse turn and I'm not happy about that, but at least I'll have a seat. Not to worry though I'll get to see the horses jog to the gate for the sprint and the turf and jog out after the finish and jog back to the unsaddleing area . There I go venting again.

[NTamm1215]

I will be at the BC. Really looking forward to it and I'd love to meet some of you.

NT

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Port Conway Lane

I'm not so sure that was a mistake. I would prefer to know the weather forcast and buy tickets on ebay rather than prepay $250 and take a chance on freezing my azz off or getting soaked. If the weather is nice and you can't get a decent price on ebay the paddock area is an outdoor option.

I looked on stub hub and they are out of sight expensive. E-Bay was a little better, but I've never been to a BC before where you couldn't find decent seats outside the track day of. Monmoth is "smaller", but still thinking that might be the route to go

[SuffolkGirl]

Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

Yes. But I'll be spending all my time inside because I made the mistake of getting @#$%&!!! general admission tickets.

I'll be right there with you.... I have a seat for Friday but Sat it is GA

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

Yes. But I'll be spending all my time inside because I made the mistake of getting @#$%&!!! general admission tickets.

There is a pair on stubhub in the 700 section for a decent price.After the commission and shipping $397 for both.

http://www.stubhub.com/breeders-cup-...t_id=105714705

I listed my GA tickets at $48 and sold them in 10 minutes, getting $80 after commission.