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Each league “event” will include three races open only to horses that are owned by the company, the organizers said. Each team will be able to enter one of their six horses in each of the three races, for a maximum field of six horses in each race. Betting will be allowed on the races, administered by the track, with the proceeds of the betting going to the host track and its horsemen, the organizers said.
Cannot wait for a preplanned set of six horse fields. Better yet, how long does it take for a race not to fill or an "entry" is needed with two horses from one team?
Tom Ludt, a former chairman of Breeders’ Cup Ltd. and former president of the Vinery sales and breeding operation, has been hired as the league’s president of horse operations. Ludt said on Monday that he will begin buying the horses for the company this summer, in anticipation of an early July draft. All the horses will be acquired privately, Ludt said, and the company will be looking for “high-allowance, low stakes-level horses.”
Anyone with NW2/NW3 allowance horses, listed stakes, overnight stakes or even Grade III talent must be looking forward to the $100,000+ claiming tag.
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