Your Proposed BC Format
 

Juvenile Fillies - 1 Mile - $1,000,000
Juvenile - 1 Mile - $1,000,000
Turf Mile - 1 Mile (T) - $1,000,000
Distaff - 1 3/16 Miles - $1,000,000
Turf Dash - About 5 Furlongs (T) - $1,000,000
F&M Sprint - 7 Furlongs - $1,000,000
F&M Turf - 1 3/8 Miles (T) - $1,000,000
Sprint - 7 Furlongs - $1,000,000
Turf - 1 1/2 Miles (T) - $2,000,000
Classic - 1 1/4 Miles - $3,000,000
Total Purses: $13,000,000

Juvenile Fillies Turf
Juvenile Turf
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Colts
Sprint
Turf Mile
F&M Turf
Turf
Distaff
Classic

All at the same distances they were run at this year.

1) No turf sprinter in this country deserves to run for $1 million
2) No true sprinter will be able to win a 7f BC Sprint in a full field; the race will become a prep for comebacking horses targeting the Cigar Mile and Malibu
3) The feminazis will be all over you for the 9.5f Distaff. Putting it back to 10f though would make it a true "championship" race.
4) The purse reductions are spot on.

juvie fillies 1 mile 500k
juvie colts 1 mile 500k
juvie turf 1 mile 500k
sprint 1 million
turf mile 1 million
turf 2 million
distaff turf 1 million
distaff 1.5 million
classic 6 million

I would go back to the the last one day format used, adding only a juvenile turf race open to both sexes. All juvenile races should be a mile and one-sixteenth, subject to track configuration.

Purses should be what the BC can afford--I have no idea.

IF (and only if) the BC were to adopt CD (or Belmont--unlikely) as its permanent home, I would strongly consider keeping the dirt mile, with a purse in line with the other BC races (and a Grade 1 rating), because a one-turn mile IS a classic race in this country, for which there are already two open Grade 1s. It might also encourage more of these races at the tracks configured to run them (BEL, AQU, GP, CD, ARL and CNL), which would suit me just fine, because I love them. The Cigar Mile might have to be moved to Belmont and run as part of the BC preps there, however.

I am agnostic about a turf sprint. Are there any Grade 1 turf sprints in the US? If not (and I don't think there), let's not invent one just for the sake of doing so.

First of all rotate between Belmont and Churchill.

Secondily, always have it the first Saturday of November.

I would go back to the one day format, have it on a Saturday. Cut the time in between races way down to about 20 minutes in between races. Cut out the turf races for 2 year olds, the filly and mare sprint and the dirt mile.

under the lights at churchill.. 4pm start

Scrap the F&M sprint. The Safely Kepts, Pine Tree Lanes, Meafaras, Soviet Problems, and Xtra Heats make the regular Sprint more interesting.

Go back to the original 7 races....just adjust the purses. In the record books only those should matter, not this breeders cup marathon crap, it cheapens everything about the BC.