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Originally Posted by FGFan
It has everything to do with Curlin, did you read the article Ateam posted?
http://www.drf.com/news/article/95158.html
In an overt attempt to secure Curlin as a starter, Churchill Downs announced Wednesday that the purse for the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap on June 14 has been increased to $1 million from the original $750,000 level.
They made the first deal in NOLA and now it's the same thing in Kentucky. They want Curlin to make his 2008 debut in the US at a CD property. |
I think the bottom half of the article is the focus here, namely, the all-time money record. Its basically the only reason Curlin is still racing...you know, aside from the sporting gesture of letting all his North American fans get a final glimpse of him...via satellite.
It's likely that Curlin won't be coming out for the BC because of synthetics, so he needs to race a couple of more times to garner that monumental achievement.
As cool as it sounds for his future starts to possibly include the Arc de Triomphe or the Japan Cup, what's the likelihood his connections are actually going to go through with this? I say zilch. Its much more likely that another rich cakewalk will be engineered to ensure his ascension to pseudo-greatness.
I wonder what the purse of the Clark Handicap, also at CD, will end up being later this fall.