According to an article on Chron.com, one man is willing to ante up $2 million purse money for a match race between 2009 Preakness Stakes winner Rachel Alexandra and Breeders Cup champ Zenyatta

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Jim McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture, said he would ante up the cash to see the two females slug it out at Sam Houston Race Park later this fall.

“Gallery Furniture would sponsor the race,” said McIngvale, better known as Mattress Mack. “The winner would receive $1.2 million. The other would get $800,000.”

The tentative date for the match race between Zenyatta ($2.6 million in earnings) and Rachel Alexandra ($2.5 million in earnings) would be October 3 – five weeks prior to this year’s Breeders’ Cup

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