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My son and I went to the opening ceremonies at WEG. We are not horse people (unless you count a couple of trips to Keeneland each year but we were blown away by WEG. If you have any time to go I highly recommend it. It is well worth the $25 grounds fee to go take in all the exhibits and vendor booths alone. Grounds pass is included with any event ticket. I didn't know what to expect but it is a very impressive event. We took the bus from High St and got to the park within about 10 mintues. Even though we waited until the very end of the ceremonies (which were spectacular) we got on a bus within 5 minutes. I encourage everyone to go to WEG. You will be impressed. It made me very proud of our fair city. Very well organized.
i went to the WEG games last night to watch the jumping. We were given free tickets. I disagree with that it is worth the $25. The grounds are really nice, but there isn't really much in most of the booths. A bunch of the booths were just companies pamphlets, and most of the other ones were cowboy boots and saddles. The food was poor quality and expensive, and if you don't like kentucky ale, your SOL ($7 a pop too).
I probably would pay $5-10max to go in, $25 is overpriced IMO.
The jumping was nice, but no WAY would it be worth the $110 per ticket. Its no wonder they are constantly selling them half off everywhere. I would say the stadium was barely half full
All in all it was fun, but if I actually paid for the ticket, i would feel pretty shafted if we spent $50 to get in. I enjoy watching some horse racing and attending events like keeneland and churchill, but there just wasn't anything there for me.
I think it's been an awesome event! I don't know that it brought the expected revenue to our city that was promoted, but it's certainly brought in a lot of bucks as well as just spotlighted our city to the US and the world. I'm proud!!!
In the horse industry, it was indeed a spotlight. It did receive national TV coverage on NBC last weekend for several hours. There's not a lot of events that get national coverage.
And tell us when was the last time Chicago had any national TV coverage Tom??
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but we were blown away by WEG. If you have any time to go I highly recommend it. It is well worth the $25 grounds fee to go take in all the exhibits and vendor booths alone. Grounds pass is included with any event ticket. I didn't know what to expect but it is a very impressive event. We took the bus from High St and got to the park within about 10 mintues. Even though we waited until the very end of the ceremonies (which were spectacular) we got on a bus within 5 minutes. I encourage everyone to go to WEG. You will be impressed. It made me very proud of our fair city. Very well organized.
