Claiming Crown

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Congrats to Mike, a good trainer and a good guy. The claiming crown however needs to do something different because the races this year were softer than usual and with the dramatic increase in purses at some tracks, the lower level claiming crown races have really lost their luster.

I thought the races were more interesting this year. And 50k, 75k 100k and 150k races for starters? What else could they do? Maybe they didn't get a former G3 winner as in prior years but the fields were very full and Ellis handled nearly twice what they did the previous Saturday. I think most people would say they did a great job.