Pletcher to have no horses in the Travers

[boswd]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

We saw a public workout from Bernardini last year. No one seemed to care. The fans will come out to see Street Sense, I have no doubt there.

Here's my issue. Pletcher was one of the big supporters of moving the Jim Dandy back a week to give more time in between that race and the Travers. So NYRA does it. He runs Cowtown Cat, his 5th string maybe and runs his #1 in the Haskell. Okay, and now he is skipping the Travers because it doesn't fit. Please. I think if anything increase the purse of the Travers. Make it 1.5 million, because really, it's all about money.

Like I said earlier they might not be scared, but they are in no big hurry to face him.

l like the idea of raising the purse of either the Jim Dandy to $750,00 or The Travers to $1,500,000. If the Travers had that purse all of a sudden that 3 weeks wouldn't seem so short.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by boswd

l like the idea of raising the purse of either the Jim Dandy to $750,00 or The Travers to $1,500,000. If the Travers had that purse all of a sudden that 3 weeks wouldn't seem so short.

What about an appearance fee? $100,000 to the winner of the Dandy for running in the Travers and $200,000 to the winner of the Haskell for running in the Travers. That way they wouldn't get totally burnt with paying out an extra $500,000 in purse money and still not drawing the winner of the Haskell.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

It's not a bad idea, but it rubs me the wrong way. Now we pay these connections just to run? I'm not slamming the idea, I'm just sick of the state of this game right now.

Ditto

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

It's not a bad idea, but it rubs me the wrong way. Now we pay these connections just to run? I'm not slamming the idea, I'm just sick of the state of this game right now.

Yeah, it doesn't thrill me either. Just makes more financial sense than throwing an extra $500,000 into the purse without having any idea if it will impact the field.