Turning out there's a bit 'less' to this than it looks..
Original reporting of the story by Tom Luicci/The Star-Ledger
http://www.nj.com/sports/njsports/in...outh_park.html
It's not just 50 days in the summer, and the $50MM number includes the stakes AND overnight programs...There's also a 21 day Sept-Nov meet that will run for $250-$300k/day ($5.5MM), and the stakes program is worth about $5MM. So take $10-$11MM off the $50MM total and you are actually around $775-$800k a day for the summer meet. And even that number is not purse money exclusively.
And I'm being told that the Star-Ledger was very premature releasing this. There are many i's to dot and t's to cross yet...
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Last edited by Kasept : 02-26-2010 at 02:47 PM.
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