Churchill Downs comes down on eBay

Courier Journal:

Maryland resident Miranda Prather lost her tickets to this year’s Kentucky Derby almost as fast as a $2 bet on a badly beaten favorite.

Prather and others who have tried to sell their Derby tickets on eBay and had them taken away by Churchill Downs are angry that the track has a sponsorship agreement with a company that scalps hundreds of tickets for the Triple Crown horse race.

“I just find it a little bit ironic that they are coming down so hard on people reselling tickets when they, in fact, themselves, are going through a reseller to start selling some of their tickets,” said Prather, of Middletown, Md.