CDI Inks Derby Deal With Previously Shunned Ticket Broker
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CDI Sells Corporate Hospitality
Tents To Online Ticket Broker
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Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI) has sold corporate hospitality tents to TicketCity.com,
which last week was “offering 764 tickets online for the Derby and Kentucky Oaks,
as well as to Innova Sports Tours, which had 306 tickets for sale,” according
to Wolfson & Riley of the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL. Those tickets ranged from
$195 for five VIP parking spots to $35,035 for a third-floor clubhouse box for
both race days — 12 times face value. CDI last year dropped TicketCity as
a partner in Derby package deals “after learning it was scalping.” Some former
ticket holders said that it is “hypocritical for the track to invite ticket-scalping
companies to the race while stripping patrons of the right to buy future tickets
if they are caught selling as few as one or two tickets over face value.” Longtime
ticket holder Jerry Kelsey, who lost his seats when his tickets ended up with
a scalper, said, “It’s not fair. I have a bitter taste in my mouth about Churchill
Downs, that’s for sure.” CDI President Steve Sexton said that the track sold tents
to TicketCity and Innova, as well as other sports tourism companies, “on the condition
that they package those tickets with hotel accommodations” (Louisville
COURIER-JOURNAL, 4/21).
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