re: Risen Star day PPs

Purses up at FG this year must be the slot money contributing

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Purses up at FG this year must be the slot money contributing

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They just cut purses 10% across the board. Hard to imagine how betting could be down with all of the 7 horse fields of statebred NW2 5K. to bet (a condition that should NEVER be run at FG, and never was until Churchill brought in these slicks from Evangeline Downs to run the racing).
They care about 3 things:
1)A place for Ky trainers to train their good horses. It's the best training track in the country. This is legit (although fading).
2) 5 or so big days of the year, into which they jam all of the graded stakes..
3) Otherwise, they operate the racing like it's Evangeline Downs. Oh, let's jam 6 2 YO 100K La Bred stakes races (3 for each sex) into Nov and Dec. 8 race cards. Conditioned statebred claiming.

It's ridiculous. Delta is open - if a horse is too lame and slow to run in, dare I suggest, an open 5K, go to freaking Delta.
The purses are low, they don't care that Oaklawn park constantly punches them in the face. Their one competitive advantage is turf racing - and instead of using it as a competitive advantage, they completely mute it by offering lower purses on the turf than dirt.
Oh, and the "new" Racing Commission's first move was to ease medication restrictions - that ran off more out of state barns and/or lessened their participation.
Churchill has a pipeline to top level racing management via U of Louisville's program, and yet the same dude from Evangeline Downs dude's been running the place for nearly 20 years.

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Oh, and the "new" Racing Commission's first move was to ease medication restrictions - that ran off more out of state barns and/or lessened their participation.

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Thats because the HBPA approved it and got the Racing Commission to go along with it which the members of the Racing Commission are just puppets to a certain guy who gets what he wants. And it was a bad look on the Racing Commission

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The purses are low, they don't care that Oaklawn park constantly punches them in the face. Their one competitive advantage is turf racing - and instead of using it as a competitive advantage, they completely mute it by offering lower purses on the turf than dirt.

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Now you are spot on here. Purses are low through the whole condition book turf and dirt. The Casino stays open 365 we have sports betting but the HHR machines are still in a lawsuit. There still should be enough money to offer a purse of 75K for MSW horse state bred and open horses.

Turf purses need to be higher than the claiming price i agree there also. 15K claimers Friday ran for a purse of 21K. That's too low that purse should be 30-35K minimum.

Nothing wrong with the 6-2 yr old stakes in November and December. How do you expect breeders to breed horses if there's no money to run for or stakes money to run for? I don't see you complaining about the QH stake schedule for 2 yr olds. Half million dollar races for the Futurities.


Jason does a good job but ever thought he's handcuffed by his bosses in Louisville.

And purses should of been cut 10% across the board including stakes races.

What graded stakes have they lost?

Simply Joking scratched because her feed was off and a bad blood test. Same for Phil Bauer's horse in the RS. Boulet basically walked arse backwards into that job, thanks to Robbie Alborado. He's nothing more than a slot floor boss. Although his hands are somewhat tied, alot has to do with the cronies on the state racing commission. The purses were cut because there was no money being put into the betting machines for almost a week right after the snow storm. The money not only comes from the slots inside the FG, it also comes from the poker and slot machines at all the OTB's scattered across the region.

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Not really. They give more money out for state breds than open company. State law requires them to write at least 3 state bred races per day. They sure are not attracting bigger outfits. Alot of them just come for the New Orleans food, and party scene. It ain't about the money, that's for sure because Turfway has much larger purses and larger fields. Thr Fairgrounds is nothing more than Delta with turf racing. 3 good cards per meet. Saturday's was #2, and Louisiana derby day, that's about it. Other than that it's a bunch of cheap rats .

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blame cdi, they put nothing into their other tracks

you cant even watch their signal, w/o tvg or roberts, horrendous cdi decisions. Keeneland gives their signal away, and it's become the top track, bcause of management, gambling decisions, and not being part of cdi.

churchill is a mediocre large track living off 1 day a year.

Download the Churchill downs live app on Roku or Firestick. You can watch all the CD owned tracks, including Colonial. I got rid of TVG because they talk too much BS and I get to choose what track I want without a split screen. FYI, just about every major track is available to watch. Gotta know where to look.

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The purses were cut because there was no money being put into the betting machines for almost a week right after the snow storm. The money not only comes from the slots inside the FG, it also comes from the poker and slot machines at all the OTB's scattered across the region.

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Delta had the same problem and didn't cut purses. Same with Oaklawn. If they want to cut purses fine but do it across the board. They didn't and horseman are pissed off.

Oaklawn is kicking there arse in daily purse money and FG needs to get it together. Why you think Asmussen is running 400 horses at Oaklawn to 100 at FG?