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World Equestrian Games 2010

Active Travel, Inc. is proud to be offering ticket and accommodation packages to the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY in 2010. You will find our packages to be well researched and offering exceptional A Level seating. We have worked closely with Short’s Travel to create packages for the true equine enthusiast and our staff members have made several trips to Lexington already to inspect the hotels, the venues and the other activities in the area to provide you with the best packages for reining, dressage, jumping and eventing competition as well as suggested activites for non competition times.
WEG 2010 tickets and WEG 2010 accommodation packages showcased here are inclusive of the following:

Discipline Series tickets with A Level seating (tickets for every day of the discipline competition) for Reining, Dressage, Jumping and Three Day Eventing, Hotel accommodation including breakfast, Shuttle service to the competition each day (where available), all taxes. Active Travel, Inc. is an authorized seller of ticket and accommodation packages for WEG 2010 and has secured all package elements through Short’s Sports, the official WEG 2010 event management company.

Package Pricing:

Reining: Sept. 24-Oct. 1

    Eventing: Sept. 29-Oct. 4

    • Days Inn Winchester – $1,095.00 USD per person in a shared room
      (Single Supplement: $505.00 USD)       - SOLD OUT!

    Jumping: Oct. 3-10

    Dressage: Sept. 26-Oct. 2

    The World Equestrian Games are comprised of the world championships for eight equestrian sports. The Games are held every four years, two years prior to the Olympic Games, and are governed by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The full range of disciplines is as follows:

    • Dressage
    • Driving
    • Endurance
    • Eventing
    • Jumping
    • Para Dressage
    • Reining
    • Vaulting

    The very first World Equestrian Games were held in Stockholm in 1990. Six disciplines were involved–Jumping, Dressage, Eventing, Driving, Endurance and Vaulting. In 1994 the city of The Hague in the Netherlands hosted the Games. After a late cancellation of the Games that were to be held in Dublin, Ireland, Rome stepped forward to host the 1998 Games on one year’s notice. All disciplines except the Endurance were held and beautifully executed considering the very short preparation time. The Endurance was held in Dubai that year.

    The next Games were held in Jerez de Frontera, Spain in 2002 and included all six disciplines and Reining for the first time. Following that the Games went to Aachen 2006, again with seven disciplines, and were a fabulous success. In 2010 the games leave Europe for the first time and come to the United States to the Kentucky Horse Park where, for the first time, Para Dressage, the newest FEI Discipline will be competed together with the other seven.

    There are a number of changes underway at the Kentucky Horse park as it prepares for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. These permanent additions and upgrades will benefit the Kentucky Horse Park before and long after the 2010 Games. These major changes include:

    • Construction of a climate-controlled, 6,000 seat Indoor Arena. Scheduled to be completed by July 2009.
    • Construction of a new 7,500 seat Outdoor Stadium. Scheduled to be completed by March 2009.
    • Construction of a new vehicle entrance.
    • Upgrades to roads, pathways and visitor gathering points throughout the Park.

    In addition to the permanent construction currently underway at the Park, the organizing committee of the 2010 Games is busy designing temporary additions including:

    • Temporary Seating
      • Outdoor Stadium- 22,500 (additional seats for a total of 30,000 seats)
      • Driving Stadium- 6,000 seat temporary stadium
      • Endurance Course, Cross-Country Course- Temporary Seating- TBD
    • Temporary Structures
      • Main Hospitality Structure and Chalets
      • Media Center
      • Ariat Volunteer Center
      • Grooms Village
      • Main Entry- Over 800,000 square feet of space to be filled with a Trade Show Village, Kentucky Experience, Sponsor Showrooms, Alltech Experience and more.

    The Kentucky Horse Park is the place to get close to horses! It is dedicated to sharing Kentucky’s love of the horse with the world, and is an ideal place to attend the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010.

    It is a working 1,200-acre horse farm, educational theme park, and equine competition facility which welcomes approximately 900,000 visitors and 15,000 competition horses each year to the heart of Kentucky’s famous Bluegrass Region. Featuring dozens of different breeds of horses at work and at play, the park showcases the horse in daily equine presentations, horse drawn tours, horseback riding, a movie presentation, and an exciting array of horse shows and special events throughout the year.

    Visitors have the opportunity to meet living legends of the turf such as Cigar and Kentucky Derby winners Alysheba and Funny Cide, and to learn more about the history of the horse in the International Museum of the Horse, a Smithsonian affiliate, as well as Kentucky’s first native breed of horse in the American Saddlebred Museum.