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Blue-blooded baby racehorses regularly sell for $1 million and upwards at summer yearling sales; a buyer would have to stake $50,000 or more to own one of today’s active timber champions.
It should come as little surprise, then, that competitors in other racing sports can also be costly. On Saturday, granted, the thoroughbred will be headlining at Great Meadow, but another pre-race activity features a “field” of some other pricey “racers.”
The average racing pigeon, also known as homing pigeons, costs about $2,000, according to Tom Erskine, part of the American Racing Pigeon Union. Champions can cost up to $250,000, making the 12-ounce birds, pound-forpound, far more valuable than the 1,100-pound equine racer.
Racing pigeons have little similarity to their city street counterparts. In fact, to compare a homer to a city pigeon is likened to calling Saluter a plow horse. Horses they both are indeed, but there the similarity stops.
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