Last year's Breeders' Futurity purse was due to increased nominations for the New York-bred program and it has continued to go up. That's why we raised the estimation to 200,000 for this year. We had previously estimated it at 100,000 and, obviously, the last two years it's completely overshot that, so we're anticipating the same type of scenario this year.
Quotes about york-bred (4 Quotes)
Six furlongs is a better distance for him, and he's a New York-bred - he runs for bonus money.
He's just a fast, fast horse. I know he's a New York-bred, but he's a well-bred New York-bred. He does everything right. He's got a real high cruising speed.
He's a nice horse. He tries hard. We're going to stick with the New York-bred races. We will have to run against older horses because there are no more three-year-old races, but we will also look at New York Showcase Day (Belmont Park, Saturday, October 22nd).