FenceBored
06-26-2009, 10:01 AM
From a story at the Courier Journal this morning.
triggerAd(1,PaginationPage,13); var rnd = Math.round(Math.random()*10000000); document.write(''); http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-e4m3Yko6bFYVc.gif?labels=BusinessAndFinance,NewsAn dReference"I don't want to sit here, stand here, 20 years from now and look back and the first leg of the Triple Crown is the Wood Memorial, because it very well could be," Stumbo said. "Don't think it couldn't happen."Churchill Downs Inc. spokesman Kevin Flanery said the threat is real.
"One of the things that we need to be worried about is that one of the states that have racinos looks at the first Saturday in May (the traditional Derby day) and creates a race with a $5 million purse (http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090625/BUSINESS/906250337/1002/rss07#)," he said. "What will that do to the Kentucky Derby?" The Derby's purse is $2 million.
-- http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090625/BUSINESS/906250337/1002/rss07
triggerAd(1,PaginationPage,13); var rnd = Math.round(Math.random()*10000000); document.write(''); http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-e4m3Yko6bFYVc.gif?labels=BusinessAndFinance,NewsAn dReference"I don't want to sit here, stand here, 20 years from now and look back and the first leg of the Triple Crown is the Wood Memorial, because it very well could be," Stumbo said. "Don't think it couldn't happen."Churchill Downs Inc. spokesman Kevin Flanery said the threat is real.
"One of the things that we need to be worried about is that one of the states that have racinos looks at the first Saturday in May (the traditional Derby day) and creates a race with a $5 million purse (http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090625/BUSINESS/906250337/1002/rss07#)," he said. "What will that do to the Kentucky Derby?" The Derby's purse is $2 million.
-- http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090625/BUSINESS/906250337/1002/rss07