Our Breeders' Cup tickets arrived! HORRAY!
I signed up for the opportunity to buy Breeders' Cup tickets about 18 months ago, as soon as it was announced that the Breeders' Cup was going to be in Louisville. I had not heard anything until last spring when I began to put together a "what we are going to do" memo to our BC fellow-travelers, when that very day I received an email telling me that since I'd signed up I was given an early opportunity - before the general public - to buy Breeders' Cup tickets. After much study - as the web site allowed you to see what the view of the track would be - and economic analysis, because the closer you were to the finish line, and the higher up in the quality of the seat, obviously the more expensive the seats were - we selected seats and ordered tickets. Our location is near mid-stretch and only four rows from the track! See our view:
As you can see, we will have a GREAT view! How expensive were they? you ask? Well, let's start with a couple of comparisons......
This was the view from our seats for the Florida Derby. The Florida Derby was a ONE-DAY event, and had five graded stakes, one of which was a Grade 1. Ticket price per seat for this event: $65.
If you got our seats TODAY for the Breeders' Cup, they are not available from the Breeders' Cup or Churchill Downs, but you can get them through a ticket-broker......cost PER DAY: $100, for a total of $200. But, unlike the Fla. Derby event, you get two days of racing, and there are TEN Grade 2 races (and five Grade 2 races).
But our price - because I signed up early.....only $75 TOTAL for TWO DAYS! Great deal! I was so proud of myself :)
Coach Looove!
ReplyDeleteExcellent analysis of opportunity costs, in determining whether or not to buy the tickets. What a bargain!
Eric Wagner Period 3
Those are great seats Coach Love! I hope you have a great time at the race! (:
ReplyDeleteLeah Sjoberg
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Those are great seats! I think that is so exciting that your tickets finally came! You must take plenty of pictures when you go! You are also very lucky because you got a great price on a once in a life time experence!
ReplyDeleteI agree with E. Wag... what a great analysis of opportunity costs! You must be an economics teacher or something...
ReplyDeleteJake Miller
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that is awesome coach love!! You are going to absolutely LOVE seeing the breeder's cup in person! You have to take lots of pics and some video of Zenyatta!!
ReplyDeletewow! how lucky are you,
ReplyDeletenot only did you get great tickets to an awesome event, but you also got a super deal. Enjoy the race and take lots of pictures for us.
Danny Fisboin pd. 3a
you got awesome seats!
ReplyDeletehope you have fun! take lots of pictures
Jieun Woo
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Coach Love, as always you getting the best seats and seeing such wonderful events as the breeders cup, great analysis of opportunity cost
ReplyDeleteJorge Enrique Cardenas
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Coach Love love the view! also thats a great deal! I'm 100 % sure that you are going to enjoy the race because it promised to be a very exiting one!
ReplyDeletewell coach love im super excited that you got your tickets an better yet at such a low price!
ReplyDeleteyou had to be an economist :)
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Your seats are great!! I am sure you are going to enjoy them! Congrats! (I wonder if you have any type of tradition...like the oatmeal cookie...you probably do!)
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