Five New Grade I Races in 2007; Two Others Drop to Grade II

Originally Posted by oracle80

I can think of no races as meaningless or that I would rather watch than a turf sprint. In no way should they get graded status, much less grade one status.
As far as preps not being grade ones, I couldn't disagree more.
Not every three year old is bred to go a mile and a quarter, and in many cases the "prep" is the race.
You'd have no grade ones before the DERby for three year olds in that event, and I just don't think thats proper.

I completely agree with you on the preps if they are indeed not preps for all runner. If we could make 100% sure that every horse running in the so-called prep is actually prepping then fine--but like you pefectly said, some horses are running to get that Grade I win because they can't go 1 1/4 or whatever.