Interesting. This race takes away from the Jerome at Belmont as it lures Phipps Stable's Power Game and NY-bred Tin Cup Chalice.
I realize Shug McGaughey has run in Indiana before (I think he won the Oaks a couple of years back), and Power Game has never run in NY anyways, but it seems that if there were any Jerome hopefuls who wouldn't jump ship because of the big purse it would have been those two.
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