Santa Anita's first book out

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

How is the added purse going to make the MSW races any tougher than they would have been all along? Asmussen probably would have sent the same 30 out there without the purse increase.

I remember when Presque Isle was running 80K N1X alw races - and a Lauren Cox horse off of a huge open 4K claiming win at Mountaineer shipped in and won one of them.

I agree that Asmussen probably goes with the change back to dirt, and while I don't think the company will change, i think you will get fuller fields out there because of the increases.

The interesting thing to me will be if the California guys (Mulhall, Kitchingman, O'Neil) will pull out of Pennslyvannia because of the increases out there. I doubt it considering the stock they have at Penn National and Philly is the bottom stuff