9/21 (PRX): PA Derby, Cotillion (G1's), Gallant Bob (G3), Amazon, Mile

[Bogey]

The next three Breeders’ Cups Dirt Mile races will be run at two turns, so this race (PARX Dirt Mile) has the potential to attract those runners as a prep.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Bogey

The next three Breeders’ Cups Dirt Mile races will be run at two turns, so this race (PARX Dirt Mile) has the potential to attract those runners as a prep.

The Breeders Cup Mile is the gift that keeps giving that's for SURE

[cakes44]

I like it.

[Kasept]

This Mile isn't really new. They've run the PA Derby Champion S. the last 4 years at 8.5f.

[Merlinsky]

It felt like Lucy with the football. We were Charlie Brown, expecting an intended match up to actually go down with everybody in form and healthy, and the race happening without any disruption.

[Alabama Stakes]

Originally Posted by Kasept

This Mile isn't really new. They've run the PA Derby Champion S. the last 4 years at 8.5f.

Over the years some hosses who really excelled at a flat mile did not have as much luck at a mile 1/16. Would be cool to remember their names, but that ship has sailed.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by freddymo

The Breeders Cup Mile is the gift that keeps giving that's for SURE

Care to elaborate for those of us not as informed.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by jms62

Care to elaborate for those of us not as informed.

I’m going to guess on Freddyspeak here so bare with me. I think he’s saying the BC Mile race has diluted the Sprint and Classic and was unnecessary.

If he’s not saying it, I am.

[Dahoss]

Hard not to see the Mile has meant the Sprint has fewer horses most years. The first year they ran the Mile was 2007. Here are the field sizes for the Sprint since the Mile and for 10 years before the Mile.

2007-10
2008-8
2009-9
2010-12
2011- 9
2012- 14
2013- 12
2014- 14
2015- 14
2016- 7
2017- 10
2018- 9

1997-14
1998- 14
1999- 14
2000- 14
2001- 14
2002- 13
2003- 13
2004- 13
2005- 11
2006- 14

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Hard not to see the Mile has meant the Sprint has fewer horses most years. The first year they ran the Mile was 2007. Here are the field sizes for the Sprint since the Mile and for 10 years before the Mile.

And don't forget that the advent of the F&M Sprint ('07 at MTH I think/Maryfield) siphoned gals out of the Sprint too..

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Kasept

And don't forget that the advent of the F&M Sprint ('07 at MTH I think/Maryfield) siphoned gals out of the Sprint too..

To me, that was a worse move than adding the Dirt Mile because the likes of Safely Kept, Meafara, Soviet Problem, Very Subtle, Xtra Heat, and a few others, proved that they didn’t need to have their own race to have a shot at winning.