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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
Wasn't it a Grade I for about one or two years a few years ago?
I know this is probably a minority opinion, but the Arkansas Derby doesn't deserve Grade I status. Yes, it has had an impressive list of winners in the past few years, but the overall quality of its fields has been rather mediocre, and that's what the grade should reflect.
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But Smarty Jones won it!!!! It has to be a Grade 1. He was the most greatest horsey to ever look through a bridle! Hell, the Count Fleet at Aqueduct should be a Grade 1 now too.