Hi all
Apologies for missing this week- go to the grocery store to buy milk, and I turn it into an hour long circular sales/closeout hunting/couponing extravaganza
When the Sunshine Millions first came around, they would get full fields with the additional purses; I think it predated the Magna 5 by a year or two. So this *was* a major event for the first few years. Then they started to scale back the purses, and shockingly this turned into a much smaller affair. The Cal horses wouldn't travel to Florida and vice versa with the lower amounts- and so you'd end up with a 7 horse field at Gulfstream with 5 or 6 of the horses based in Florida. Now it's pretty much just keeping the use of the name. <sigh>
But hey, we'll do the Pegasus thing instead, and see if that works out
Have a happy weekend! Time to go handicap the Fair Grounds
Ron