Belmont Stakes crowd capped at 90,000 by NYRA

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by -BT-

i've been there 5 of the last 6 times "to see history".......hats off if the 7th time gets it done.

and why would you want to battle the crowds in NY, when you and the regulars can just hang out at freehold and talk about the yankees?

-bt-

Ditch the Wife at Delicious Orchards and head to Belmont

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Ditch the Wife at Delicious Orchards and head to Belmont

She's more of a Wegman's girl, but its a thought. You going?

[Revidere]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

She's more of a Wegman's girl, but its a thought. You going?

Wegman's....Delicious Orchards....

Don't have those here in Iowa. They have Hyvee!

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Revidere

Wegman's....Delicious Orchards....

Don't have those here in Iowa. They have Hyvee!

You need a care package from Tuscany? lol

[Revidere]

Originally Posted by freddymo

You need a care package from Tuscany? lol

Been there did that, Freddy.....

We do have a real pizza place here now. Retired cop from Canarsie.

[joeydb]

Now this question is no longer academic: What will they do? Literally turn people away?

The Derby had a record crowd of 170,000 plus this year. The preakness had another record of 131,680 - admittedly the infield partiers made up a good chunk of that.

How are they expecting to gracefully taper the expressed interest, even before we knew we had a triple crown try on the line, down to 90,000?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Now this question is no longer academic: What will they do? Literally turn people away?

The Derby had a record crowd of 170,000 plus this year. The preakness had another record of 131,680 - admittedly the infield partiers made up a good chunk of that.

How are they expecting to gracefully taper the expressed interest, even before we knew we had a triple crown try on the line, down to 90,000?

Judging from the most previous TC years, they'll be turning away somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000. Smarty Jones' year was an aberration because the horse was from a city less than 2 hours from NYC.

I initially thought it was NYRA being cheap and just not wanting to pay for the staff and things necessary to handle 100,000+ but now I think it's a smart move for overall attendance- every year more people will be more likely to buy a ticket to make sure they don't get shut out (I bought a reserved seat in April because last year was such a nightmare), and then, if the Derby winner loses the Preakness, they will still go to Belmont because they paid for the ticket. Union Rags' Belmont had 85,000, but only because I'll Have Another scratched the Friday before the race. If he'd not been entered, or scratched a week after the Preakness I imagine it would have been about 45,000-50,000.

I'll miss the 45,000 Belmonts, though.

(Note: Union Rags' Belmont was a lovely day of racing; I have no complaints)

[saratogadew]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Now this question is no longer academic: What will they do? Literally turn people away?

The Derby had a record crowd of 170,000 plus this year. The preakness had another record of 131,680 - admittedly the infield partiers made up a good chunk of that.

How are they expecting to gracefully taper the expressed interest, even before we knew we had a triple crown try on the line, down to 90,000?

Some system will have to be in place. Turning people away at the gate AFTER they pay 30.00 for parking would not be too welcomed.

[Gate Dancer]

Originally Posted by Revidere

Wegman's....Delicious Orchards....

Don't have those here in Iowa. They have Hyvee!

Or Minnesota............I laughed........

[southerndutch]

It doesn't matter what the cap is. It could be 50,000, but if nyra doesn't hire "real" ushers to keep people out of reserved seats their will be chaos like last year. In my section there were fistfights before the big race(one actually continued during the race) because squatters refused to move out of someone else's seat. I have been to every Belmont since Canonero, but I wasn't going to go this year because of last year's chaos, but changed my mind. I contacted nyra and asked if the usher and security situation was going to be addressed but of course, never received a response. Time will tell.

[richard burch]

wasn't there almost 175K reported at the derby?

The attendance at the 141st Kentucky Derby set a record for the event with a crowd of 170,513 on hand Saturday, according to the Associated Press. The previous record of 165,307 was set in 2012.

new york only gets 90K wtf?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by richard burch

wasn't there almost 175K reported at the derby?

The attendance at the 141st Kentucky Derby set a record for the event with a crowd of 170,513 on hand Saturday, according to the Associated Press. The previous record of 165,307 was set in 2012.

new york only gets 90K wtf?

You really don't pay attention at all.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by richard burch

wasn't there almost 175K reported at the derby?

The attendance at the 141st Kentucky Derby set a record for the event with a crowd of 170,513 on hand Saturday, according to the Associated Press. The previous record of 165,307 was set in 2012.

new york only gets 90K wtf?

The infield is not open to the public at Belmont.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

She's more of a Wegman's girl, but its a thought. You going?

Always