"Big Apple" & recent Wikipedia change

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>  '...Der Spitzname bezieht sich auf den Stellenwert der New Yorker
> Rennbahnen Belmont Park und Aqueduct, wo im Pferderennsport "Big Money",
> das große Geld, zu verdienen war. Für die Pferde, denen das Geld nicht
> zugute kam, gab es parallel zum "Big Money", den "Big Apple", den großen
> Apfel....'

My German is a little weak, even weaker than my English. Does this say that
since the big money was of no use to the horses, there were big apples for
them instead? This idea seems a little odd.

-- Doug Wilson


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