WEC $$ Awards

[Steve Shaw <sshaw@pacbell.net>]

If there was a purse at the Dubai WEC for $272,000 it did not all go to 
Valerie. It was split up amoung the various top finishers in some sort 
of formula that none of us know.

I had a chance to talk to the French there at a closing party and one of 
the members at the table was the past French National Champion and owner 
of Nelson I, bought by the Sheik. He paid $500,000 for the horse. Also, 
a certain horse from the midwest was leased for this race, they were 
offered $250,000 for it (after it did well in the Cosequin). The owners 
wouldn't sell but leased it instead for $XXXXX. Both of these 
statements are not rumors.

Michele says that maybe the U.S. should enact a policy of only selling 
endurance geldings, no mares or stallions, out of the country.

Steve Shaw