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Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
I'm in your corner on this.
Folks hate on the Dirt Mile, but there's a huge difference between 1m and 1m1/4.
In Europe they have distinct distance divisions (milers being one of them).
The only reason the Dirt Mile poaches from the Classic is because we've had a thin division of 10f runners here for years. Milers had to either go 6f or 10f....they deserve a race at 8f.
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But we don't have a mile division here. The BC Dirt Mile has been around for a while now and it hasn't helped create one. There are three races that matter at one mile, and the two best ones are always around one turn at Belmont. I guess it will be Aqueduct this year but still one turn.
That is a big part of the problem. Two turn miles are not always true tests due to track layout and post position. We only really have a few tracks that can run the one turn miles now, and for whatever reason Churchill doesn't have any top races at the distance.
This lack of a mile division has led to what is happening now, top horses dropping down to cherry pick a much easier race.
