user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: What was the Purse for Owner Harold A. Allen prior to 2009?
Columns: ['Year', 'Winner', 'Jockey', 'Trainer', 'Owner', 'Distance (Miles)', 'Time', 'Purse']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [2013.0, 'Abstraction', 'Leandro Goncalves', 'David Carroll', 'My Meadowview Farm', '1-1/16', '1:46.16', '$75,750']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Purse" FROM "Table" WHERE "Year" < 2009.0 AND "Owner" = 'Harold A. Allen';