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Communications Hurdle at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, and the Racing International Hurdle at Chepstow, Wales — its owner will receive a $1 million bonus in addition to the other purses won. The winner of all three European races will take home a $100,000 bonus; Cheltenham or Chepstow winners $10,000, and a Callaway Gardens horse that places or shows, $10,000.
If purse amount, spectator attendance and the number of horses running are any indication, the sport of queens continues to grow. The Virginia Fall Races in Middleburg are reenacting their two full days of racing, with the Daniel Sands Cup offering a $15,000 purse Oct. 5. Last year their meet was cut back to only one day.
The purse at Middleburg has increased by $14,000 over last year’s, and Montpelier’s is almost $70,000 — $22,000 more than in 1990.
Colgan attributes the interest and spate of new races to owners who want to become more involved in the sport.
Benson Jones of Avon, N.Y., is a case in point. Jones, whose horses train under Louis “Paddy” Neilson in Unionville, owns
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