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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
It was a good list and analysis of what those mile races have produced recently.
I think I'm on an island with the BC mile. I love high quality 1 mile races. A lot of them are great tests because the pace is often extremely challenging, but the race is not so long that it automatically turns into a meltdown. A great horse can set a wicked pace and get a mile. When they do, I love it. The BC Mile has just had a few soft fields so far given it's a BC race.
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It's an interesting race to handicap. So is the Met Mile (and it was even more so when it was Memorial Day and it saw more 3 year olds).
But given the purpose of the BC is to decide championships, it's a very bad race to have on the Breeders' Cup card. It's just too tempting as a vessel to duck the Classic.