What are your thoughts on paying for reserved seats at the track?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Cardus

I received my Belmont Stakes Day ticket application in the mail early last week. Here are the prices:

Seaonal Seating (3rd floor, split between the Clubhouse and the Preferred Grandstand, right on the wire): $350 [includes Belmont Stakes Day and every Saturday and Sunday, spring and fall meets, and a few holiday race days that aren't weekends].

Preferrred Grandstand (2nd and 3rd floors, from the wire to the 1/16th pole): $120.

Preferred Grandstand (4th floor, same span of the track): $65.

Grandstand (2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, from the 1/16th pole to the top of the stretch): $65, $45, and $20, depending on the floor.

Basically the same as last year is what it seemed but maybe a $5 increase for the grandstand? I am of the opinion that there are few bad seats in the Belmont grandstand, so I had no issue with paying $60 for seats in section S for the Big Frown debacle last year.

NT

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by Cardus

The number that really confounds me -- from a race-watching perspective -- is the $120 seats in the Clubhouse, which has sections well past the finish line. To me, those seats are useless (at that price, particularly).

I am debating which to apply for and thought exactly the same thing.

Those $120 Clubhouse sections past the wire look to be no value.

I like the idea of some kind of NYRA Season Ticket, but $350 for just Belmont it seems steep.