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Old 06-23-2009, 09:27 AM
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It's pretty simple. Ellis gets killed off, the horsemen move their lower-level stock to Indiana for the midsummer, Turfway gets killed off, the horsemen move to Tampa or whatever for the winter, next thing you know they don't return for the Churchill or Keeneland meet because they're happy where they are. Churchill and Keeneland cannot exist as boutique meets. If you don't notice the decimation of Churchill this season I can't help you see what I mean.
At least for us, Turfway served a real purpose last Jan-March...The purses obviously aren't great, but if you are based in the midwest and part of your stable are Poly/Grass horses that aren't good enough to run on what FG calls grass and you don't want to ship to Tampa, Turfway was a nice bridge to AP.
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Old 06-23-2009, 09:44 AM
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At least for us, Turfway served a real purpose last Jan-March...The purses obviously aren't great, but if you are based in the midwest and part of your stable are Poly/Grass horses that aren't good enough to run on what FG calls grass and you don't want to ship to Tampa, Turfway was a nice bridge to AP.
Exactly my point...
And to our Tampa contingent, I think we all can agree it's a great place to winter but a lot of people don't want to ship back and forth with cheaper horses because shipping is EXPENSIVE.

P.S. I may be invading on Jul 11th!
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Old 06-23-2009, 09:44 AM
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At least for us, Turfway served a real purpose last Jan-March...The purses obviously aren't great, but if you are based in the midwest and part of your stable are Poly/Grass horses that aren't good enough to run on what FG calls grass and you don't want to ship to Tampa, Turfway was a nice bridge to AP.
Come on Bob, ship to Tampa. It'll give you an excuse to escape Chicago in the winter to watch your horses run.

I'll take over for Scav's drooling in the winner's circle, you'll just need to send me one of those sporty BG tees.

Your horses will also be fit as a fiddle for their return at AP in the spring. Tampa shippers =
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