Sorry folks.
As of February 12, 2010, reserved seating has been sold out for the Apple Blossom. The cheapest currently found on eBay is $1,100 starting bid for 2 tickets!
However, if you are still dying to see the race in person, Oaklawn offers general admission for $2 with seating available on the track’s apron and infield on a first-come, first-served basis. Since the track will open no later than 10:00am (more probably 9:00am or even earlier), it would be best to get there as early as possible and wait in line with all the other Rachel Maniacs and Zenyatta fans. Oaklawn will not set post times for the Apple Blossom card until finalizing television coverage for the feature race itself, but he expects the first-race post time to be around 1 p.m.
Reserved seating is only one of many concerns for fans still looking to see the Apple Blossom live. There is now a scarcity of rooms in Hot Springs where the race is being held, as well as diminishing availabilities in the outlying areas. Hot Springs has 4,000 rooms for lodgers, and the area around it has about 10,000 rooms. Because of the Apple Blossom being the first race where Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta will meet, Oaklawn is expecting to break their record attendance of 72,464. Unless everyone is bunking together, finding rooming could prove hairy.
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