Why win and your in sucks...

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

And he is a perfect example of how winning one race that is designated as a "special race" suddenly becomes more important that the rest of the years accomplishments...

Maybe Purim isn't the ideal example but his win in this race is now much more important than the horse who won the Shoemaker, Firecracker, Makers Mark or any other important mile race. What if the full compliment of Euros come and a couple of Discreet cat or Hard Spun types enter in the turf mile. Then we are down to 4 or 5 American turf milers. If you get 2 longshot WAYI winners than you are down to possibly 2 or 3 spots open. That is good? Longshots getting preferential treatment into our premier races is not a good idea in my mind...

Well maybe we look at the Shadwell Mile differently. It didn't take a "WAYI" designation for me to think that it's one of the most important grass mile races in America. Regardless of a gimmicky marketing idea, the Shadwell Mile winner should be a part of the BC Mile field no matter what.

While I understand your concern about an extremely deserving horse being left out, your doomsday scenario is going to need a whole lot of wacky entrants for Purim to actually knock a rock-solid better horse out of the field. So what if he was 20-1 in that race? Look at his PPs, TGs, etc. He had some darkened form over his last few, but his fastest and best races were exactly on par with the favorites in that field the other day.

Really, are you that worried that this year's version of Sleeping Indian is going to get left out of the field because Purim ran his eyeballs out a few times this year, and most importantly on Saturday? I'm willing to bet that once entries are drawn for the mile, it won't be Purim who will seem the most questionable of the lot.