View Single Post
  #6  
Old 08-28-2007, 08:50 AM
philcski's Avatar
philcski philcski is offline
Goodwood
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
Posts: 8,872
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by slotdirt
I was just thinking about a comment Kasept made several months back about how the Preakness was only a million dollar race. If the Kent Breeders Cup, a G3 event, could muster up a $500k purse, why can't Maryland Racing o the same? Oh, that's right...they don't have slot money to augment state purses.
The Belmont and Travers are also "only" million dollar races, which as you state in perspective of the Kent BC being a $500k race is relatively low...
__________________
please use generalizations and non-truths when arguing your side, thank you
Reply With Quote