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Old 10-29-2009, 03:33 PM
freddymo freddymo is offline
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Originally Posted by Buckpasser
Wondering why in New York and other major tracks MSW races have such high purses, upwards of $60,000 in some cases. Why couldn't that be spread around to other condition races? The maidens have to run in order to move into other categories so why not have the MSW purses lower?
Think about it.. It costs 25k a year to keep a horse in training.. running for 7k in a Mdn race is insane.. Basically unless the money was completely and I mean completely irrelavant who would take a shot buying a horse?
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