There are nine graded stakes for turf sprinters (all of which Grade 3's) - and honestly, isn't that nine races too many?
A Breeders Cup Turf Sprint...or anything that legitimizes turf sprints for horses age three and up is a bad idea.
I'd be in favor of a Breeders Cup Starter Allowance race - restricted to horses who raced for a tag of 25K or less during that racing season - before I would be a turf sprint.
A middle distance starter allowance race would feature a massively oversubscribed field of horses with forms dominated by winning performances at a VERY WIDE variety of race-tracks and distances....probably trained by a bunch of move-up artists and undesireables.
The real bright spot of that kind of race would be the fact that it would not siphon out contenders from other BC races. I'd rather see cheaper horses in razor sharp form get to run for a $1 million purse - than have the possibility of the fields for the existing Breeders Cup races being further watered down
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