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I have mixed feelings about the change.
I don't feel too bad about winners at SAR getting 5% less of an even larger purse. One win at SAR may not pay the training bill for a year but it sure takes the pressure off.
3rd, 4th and 5th get a better deal now, maybe enough to try harder.
Also now, a 6th place horse in a 6 horse field gets paid the same as the 5th place horse. I'm not sure that's right.
And I'm not sure how this makes for larger fields, since the more horses you have after 6 the less each one gets. In a larger field it's likely less than $200 each over last year. Does that tip the decision to keep a new horse on the grounds or to ship it in?
Horses at SAR were already getting paid more than anywhere else in the country and they still are after this change.
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The great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge - Daniel J. Boorstin
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