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Originally Posted by RollerDoc
The attendance was 17,047. A week earlier, for a card that did not include Big Brown, Monmouth drew 2,587.
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Big Brown wasn't the reason the attendance swelled.
There was a rumor that Frankel was actually going to run one of his horses not named Ginger Punch that he had entered in a race. That drew out over 17k unbelieving New Yorkers and New Joisians.