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Keeneland Makes Glass-Enclosed Saddling Paddock Chalet Available To Guests

Preparations for the '15 Breeders' Cup at Keeneland continue "with one new feature in particular getting broken in" as the track has made the glass-enclosed Saddling Paddock Chalet available to guests during the Spring Meet "as a test run for next fall's championship event," according to Alicia Wincze Hughes of the LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. The chalet, which "provides patrons with close-up views of the horses as they are saddled, has been offered on Fridays and Saturdays for the meet." That price "includes lunch, a program and admission." Keeneland officials said that the chalet "has been sold out each of the days it has been offered." Breeders' Cup COO Bob Elliston said, "No one had experience with what that was so when we did the pre sale with our board members and folks like that, no one bought that space. They were in the (trackside) chalets, the clubhouse, those type of spaces. Then when we went on public sale, they (the public) gobbled them up in one day. Now people are seeing them and going 'How do we get in there? We want to be in there.'" Hughes notes capacity of the Saddling Paddock Chalet for the spring "has been 220 people and it features a climate-controlled dining room and also offers premium open bar with private wagering facilities." According to the Breeders' Cup website, two-day packages for the Saddling Paddock Chalet "are already sold out" for the Oct. 30-31 event. Meanwhile, Elliston said that the Breeders' Cup will "introduce a new safety system for the sponsor signage that typically is placed under the rail." Elliston said that where the old holders for the signage were metal, the new ones "will be all foam, providing a safer barrier should a worst-case scenario occur" (LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, 4/20).

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