DEL: $500k Kent Breeders Cup

[philcski]

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...