You'd think for a million dollars, or roughly 600,000 that the cream 2 year olds would turn out for the Jackpot or at least a few more of the heavy hitting trainers would be there to take a shot. Thats a lot of money to protect horses over. Most of which won't be good enough later on anyway.

To some extent this race reminds me of the first week of the Gulfstream or Saratoga meets. (Horses coming in from everywhere.) This race you have 10 entries coming in from 8 different tracks: Aqueduct, Calder, Delta Downs, Churchill, Hollywood, Houston, Philadelphia and Pimlico. The difference is that most of these horses haven't made a reputation for themselves yet. A couple players came out of this race last year.

CtC