I had my younger daughter’s 8th birthday party at the local horse racing track. They have (or had) a “Pony Pals Kids Club” and for a very reasonable amount of money, you got a cake and sodas, a tour of the stables, the barns, and the jockey room (very popular with both the kids and the moms — they let the kids ride the little warm up rocking horse type thing, and the moms got to look at the jockeys walking around in their jockeys), the birthday child got a race named for them in the program and got to present the plate or cup or whatever to the winner of that race. We talked about odds (Math!) and made it a learning experience even. LOL Everybody thought it was great. My ex was a little skeptical but got over it.