General Admission tix by phone today; face value
 

Just a quick update for anyone interested.

The "Souvenir Ticket" is available with a phone order at the Santa Anita Breeders Cup link.

I ordered two for $20 each, with a reasonable $15 service charge for certified delivery.

Up until today I thought that mail in form was required. Saw the offer for "souvenir" with the phone number and was able to transact in about 3 minutes.

On some of the ticket sales sites people are asking two and three times face value for General Admission today....

Make sure the tickets are fireproof.

General Admission is $20 a day walkup. Why purchase them early?

LOL!!!! Actually those fires are no where near Santa Anita and they should actually be well contained by than! :)

Not a huge deal, but these pre-race day tickets are the "Souvenir" version.

Suitable for framing or something, I guess....

For me, I just feel better with tickets in hand since I'm driving in from the Bay Area late the night before.

If the $15 keeps me from standing in line a bit, that could be worth it right there. I made the mistake of doing walk-up for a spontaneous Dodger game one night and after 45 minutes of being in line outside.....while the game was already being played.....became very appreciative of having advanced tickets at SoCal events.

Official Breeders' Cup Race Order
 

2008 BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
(All Eastern Time)

Championship Friday October 24

Santa Anita Allowance Race 1 2:05 p.m.
Santa Anita Allowance Race 2 2:35 p.m.
$1 million Sentient Flight Group Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint 3 3:35 p.m.
$1 million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf 4 4:15 p.m.
$2 million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) 5 4:55 p.m.
$2 million Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. I) 6 5:35 p.m.
$2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I) 7 6:15 p.m.
Las Palmas Handicap (gr. II) 8 6:55 p.m.
Santa Anita Race Allowance Race 9 7:30 p.m.
Santa Anita Race Allowance Race 10 8:05 p.m.

Championship Saturday October 25

$500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon 1 1:10 p.m.
$1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint 2 1:50 p.m.
$1 million TVG Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile 3 2:30 p.m.
$2 million Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. I) 4 3:15 p.m.
$2 million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) 5 3:55 p.m.
$1 million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf 6 4:35 p.m.
$2 million Sentient Flight Group Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. 1) 7 5:15 p.m.
$3 million Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. I) 8 6:00 p.m.
$5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) 9 6:45 p.m.
Damascus Stakes 10 7:20 p.m.
Oak Tree Derby (gr. II) 11 7:55 p.m.

Byk, is that EST or PST?

Sunset 6:20 pm so must be Eastern

:eek:


(All Eastern Time)

;)

He lives in Chicago Mean Time... nothing else exists























:D

awesome, gives me almost all day to piss away my bankroll @ belmont and keenland until the first BC races..... nice:(

-bt-

You should have seen me in Kentucky last Sunday with the hour time change, I was all over the place, couldn't believe Belmont was still running, couldn't find Hawthorne, had no idea of the time...mental disaster

Had one of those days at the 2000 Breeders Cup. Went from CT to ET Zone and it was the week after the time changed from daylight savings. I dragged along a friend who happened to be drinking whiskey the entire way and kept me mixed up all day.

It's going to be odd watching real time racing at 10:10 AM.

Took me long enough to adjust to 10AM NFL kickoffs......though now I love them....

Ah, yea...10 minutes...he said Eastern time BT

9 races (4 ungraded), 6 hours
 

The Saturday card will start at 1:10 p.m. Eastern with the Marathon, followed by the Turf Sprint, 1:50; Dirt Mile, 2:30; Mile, 3:15; Juvenile, 3:55; Juvenile Turf, 4:35; Sprint, 5:15; Turf, 6:00; and Classic, 6:45. Two races, the Damascus Stakes and the Oak Tree Derby, will follow the Classic.


If the idiots that produce this circus had half a brain, they would run the nine races in 3 1/2 hours. There is less than 20 minutes of actual action in 6 hours. Ever wonder why nobody other than us watches the Breeders Cup?

Seems like they could move it along a little quicker. It does provide good handicapping/drinking time in between races.

As well as driving down to the OTB to see Yakk :eek: .....did you know that it will be the last day at the Herkimer branch also, closing it's doors for good after the last race. :(

Yeah..I heard that. Believe me, They would do the same for FP if they could get a bar to have an EZ Bet. With Herkimer leaving, maybe we will be spared for awhile.