Churchill ups Foster purse to $1 million

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Not difficult to understand. Originally, I was saying it had nothing to do with BRINGING Curlin to the race. At the end, I was allowing that his presence was more than likely a driving force behind the increase, as a sort of thank you for coming. So I think it did have something to do with him but not in the way that most people think so, as a lure to get him, because he was already coming.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Not difficult to understand. Originally, I was saying it had nothing to do with BRINGING Curlin to the race. At the end, I was allowing that his presence was more than likely a driving force behind the increase, as a sort of thank you for coming. So I think it did have something to do with him but not in the way that most people think so, as a lure to get him, because he was already coming.

Perhaps there was an undisclosed offer from some other track to get him to their race that prompted the purse increase. Does Curlin really need to make a start in June?

Maybe Saratoga offered to make both the Whitney and Woodward million dollar affairs that would wrap up his career nice and neat.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Perhaps there was an undisclosed offer from some other track to get him to their race that prompted the purse increase. Does Curlin really need to make a start in June?

Maybe Saratoga offered to make both the Whitney and Woodward million dollar affairs that would wrap up his career nice and neat.

But again, I could maybe see that as possible if the purse increase was announced prior to his people saying he was running there, as a way of inticing them to come to Churchill. It just doesn't seem to make sense to me that they would need to increase the purse for a race to get him to come when he was coming anyway.