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Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer
It also is a lot less classy at 1 mile than 1 3/16ths.
There are too few graded races around classic distance as it is. Going from 9.5 to this glorified sprint is pretty disappointing.
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Disappointing? To whom?
Less classy? Really? A legit prep towards the Met Mile is less classy than the famed and storied 9.5f Gulfstream Park Handicap?
What race would you rather have... A plod-fest with a handful of nowhere-else-to-go 7 year olds, or a one turn mile that happens to fit nicely into the run-up towards the Metropolitan with some horses still capable of career form mode?
In point of fact, there is a lot more potential and probable public interest in an expanded series of winter to spring races that culminate with the Met Mile than in a hackneyed mile and three sixteenths crawlathon.
(And P.S., as it happens, there are plenty of the "BC Marathon" preps that pick up the slack for this treasured "division" later in the year...)