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Originally Posted by ManilaRose
My friends and I joke about that race all the time. I said it's "The Greatest 50k Stakes Ever Run". Not sure if that's true or not, but three future graded stakes winners came out of it and each of the three ran in seperate Breeder's Cup races as well. Perfect Drift in the Classic, Request For Parole in the Turf and Private Horde in the Sprint.
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Purses have changed in the last half-century. Used to be prep races like the San Antonio and Donn were $50K races and attracted top horses (Ack Ack, Gun Bow, Pretense, etc., in the first case, Forego, Foolish Pleasure, Gun Bow, etc.. in the second), getting ready for the keynote races of the meet, the $100K Big 'Cap and GP H. When I started watching racing, $25K was the standard for the average stakes at a major track and there would be only a handful of $100-granders in a month across the entire nation. Your $50K stakes today would have been a $15-$20K stakes in those days.