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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
I think it would be a fun match-up -- and it would give the sport some attention during the most dull racing month of the year... December.
As for incentive for Drosselmeyer's connections -- Drosselmeyer has twice competed in ungraded 60K stakes this year -- a six figure purse to race against a 5k starter horse in a race that is good for the sport -- against a horse some writers have already said they would vote Horse of the Year.
The eclipse vote for champion older male is going to be split so thin between horses like Acclimation, Tizway, Flat Out, Cape Blanco, Game On Dude, and others ... Drosselmeyer would probably steal all the Rapid Redux votes.
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Not sure how much he's going to be standing for, but don't you think it would be considerably less if he should lose to RR? At least they have the BC Classic to hang their hat on now, I would think the price would drop based on a loss in a gimmick race to a glorified 20k claimer.