Derby Tickets. $137.00 each

[Buckwheat Otay Is Dead]

Just to enter the grounds.

 

[Gobigblue812812]

Infield?

 

[King1959]

Just to enter the grounds.

I swear I remember paying $5 to get in the infield. I recall Churchill Downs raising the price to $25 to keep the “riff raff” out

 

[Blu-ish]

I swear I remember paying $5 to get in the infield. I recall Churchill Downs raising the price to $25 to keep the “riff raff” out

1973, a bunch of people crawled under a chain link fence and ran across the track on the first turn to avoid paying the $5.

 

[legalbeagle123]

I paid $20 for my first Derby (infield) in 1996. I bet $10 on Grindstone (my first bet ever) and became hooked.

The face value for seats directly from Churchill now exceeds the secondary market for several locations around the track.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Now it’s all inclusive. So that’s cheap if it includes all inclusive.

I wish we could get our normal seats for that price. We are not planning on going this year. But I would go if we could sit where we want at that kind of money.

 

[JakeKx]

I say this with the utmost sincerity. Who would want to spend a Saturday in that slum? Better experience watching it at home or casino anyways.

 

[Blu-ish]

Kentucky Derby Attendance (Last 10 Races)​

Year	Attendance
2025	147,406
2024	156,710
2023	150,335
2022	147,294
2021	51,838
2020	0 (no fans – COVID-19 restrictions)
2019	150,729
2018	157,813
2017	158,070
2016	167,227

 

[Nightwish]

Everything is more expensive now.

 

[cawoodsct]

Worth every flash

 

[Gobigblue812812]

I paid $20 for my first Derby (infield) in 1996. I bet $10 on Grindstone (my first bet ever) and became hooked.

The face value for seats directly from Churchill now exceeds the secondary market for several locations around the track.

I paid $20 for my first infield trip too.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

I say this with the utmost sincerity. Who would want to spend a Saturday in that slum? Better experience watching it at home or casino anyways.

"Until you go to Ky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowheres and you ain't never seen nothin'!!"

Irvin Cobb

 

[TeamAmerica]

I say this with the utmost sincerity. Who would want to spend a Saturday in that slum? Better experience watching it at home or casino anyways.

Have you ever been?

 

[kuhlkat]

I paid $20 decades ago when I went. Was well worth it, about a quarter per tit.

 

[Bluegrass79]

Real Kentuckians dont go to the Loserville derby, even once in their life.

The Kentucky Derby belongs in Lexington.

 

[JakeKx]

"Until you go to Ky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowheres and you ain't never seen nothin'!!"

Irvin Cobb

Well I’ve been. And stand by my statement lol

 

[JakeKx]

Have you ever been?

Yes

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Well I’ve been. And stand by my statement lol

 

[peterpiper09]

I wouldn’t go if they paid me $1000.
Who wants to walk around down there among all those smug as$holes.
I’m a common guy who relates with the next common guy.

 

[CatFanMan66]

I say this with the utmost sincerity. Who would want to spend a Saturday in that slum? Better experience watching it at home or casino anyways.

Unfortunately, it's not really a slum anymore. Derby is for the rich folk now and Churchill Downs is basically a casino now. You should go. Sounds like your kind of fun. No slummng allowed.

 

[JakeKx]

Unfortunately, it's not really a slum anymore. Derby is for the rich folk now and Churchill Downs is basically a casino now. You should go. Sounds like your kind of fun. No slummng allowed.

I’m referring to the surrounding area. Not Churchill downs itself. It’s always been decently maintained. But it’s in a crap area

 

[Buckwheat Otay Is Dead]

You don’t pay to get into a casino, but it might cost more that price of admission.

 

[TeamAmerica]

I wouldn’t go if they paid me $1000.
Who wants to walk around down there among all those smug as$holes.
I’m a common guy who relates with the next common guy.

then you would enjoy the infield. doesn't get more Common man than that.

 

[CameronCat22]

Real Kentuckians dont go to the Loserville derby, even once in their life.

The Kentucky Derby belongs in Lexington.

You mean ignorant simpletons don’t go to the Kentucky Derby because of its location? Y’all wear your ignorance as a badge of honor.

 

[CameronCat22]

I wouldn’t go if they paid me $1000.
Who wants to walk around down there among all those smug as$holes.
I’m a common guy who relates with the next common guy.

Seems like you’re the smug one who judges people you don’t know.

 

[Gobigblue812812]

I wouldn’t go if they paid me $1000.
Who wants to walk around down there among all those smug as$holes.
I’m a common guy who relates with the next common guy.

Yeah, you'd fit right in with the infield crowd.

 

[Gobigblue812812]

Unfortunately, it's not really a slum anymore. Derby is for the rich folk now and Churchill Downs is basically a casino now. You should go. Sounds like your kind of fun. No slummng allowed.

The only slum part is the infield.

 

[Wayne Dougan]

I wouldn’t go if they paid me $1000.
Who wants to walk around down there among all those smug as$holes.
I’m a common guy who relates with the next common guy.

Yeah, it sucks looking at smoke shows dressed to the nines while drinking juleps with your boys.

 

[wildcatdon]

Now they are starting the Oaks at 8:40 due to their greed. Screw Churchill Downs. Big restaurants are closing . This will affect the big Derby Galas. I hope people stay away from CD. What a joke. Greed, greed.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Yeah, it sucks looking at smoke shows dressed to the nines while drinking juleps with your boys.

Yeah. Acting like a 40k a year millionaire while putting out the Delta Bravo vibe is tops...waterhead.