Pletcher and his TC Comments

[whorstman]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I seem to recall way back when that $5 million dollar bonus thing started (and I think it might have been when... Chrysler? Did they sponsor it before Visa? I was a teenager, anyway) that the sponsor offered a one million dollar bonus to whichever horse did the best in all three Triple Crown races- so that even if there was no TC winner, there was still a champ of the TC races, so to speak. They may have only done it for a year or so, but I remember as a very casual fan being interested in the horses competing for that award.

Does anyone else remember this?

Yeah, I think they had a points sytem for that, Can't remeber the year, but I beleive on of those that won the 1st 2 leggs still lost because the winner of the belmont ran well in the 1st 2 and the horse that actually won the 1st two didn't finish well in the belmont and got no points? I dunno