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10-26-2011, 08:59 AM
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BC moves Mile up in race order..
Saturday, Nov. 5 (all post time EDT)
The official race order for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs indicates some changes from the tentative order released several weeks ago. The changes occur Nov. 5, the second day of the event. A panel of racing directors and racing secretaries met Oct. 25 to discuss the race order after pre-entries were taken the previous day. Race 1: Allowance, 12:05 p.m. Race 2: Stakes, 12:35 p.m. Race 3: $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Marathon (gr. II), 1:20 p.m. Race 4: $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT), 2:02 p.m. Race 5: $1.5 million Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Sprint (gr. I), 2:37 p.m. Race 6: $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT), 3:21 p.m. Race 7: $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I), 4:01 p.m. Race 8: $3 million Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. IT), 4:45 p.m. Race 9: $2 million Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I), 5:25 p.m. Race 10: $2 million TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT), 6:07 p.m. Race 11: $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I), 7 p.m. Race 12: Stakes, 7:40 p.m.
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10-26-2011, 09:06 AM
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Glad to see they were/are willing to make moves like this. The Turf could be a smallish field again, and sort of a let down pre-Classic... but not anymore.
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10-26-2011, 09:32 AM
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Great move.
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10-26-2011, 10:19 AM
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I'd move it up more to get more people involved earlier in the card. When Goldlikova runs, people are going to pay attention.
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10-26-2011, 10:31 AM
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I think they should run the races in alphabetical order.
$5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Marathon (gr. II) $2 million TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (gr. I) $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. IT) $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT) This makes way more sense to me and is much more attractive to both casual fans and serious bettors.
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10-26-2011, 10:40 AM
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Hopefully the Pk-3 with ALL/Goldikova/Uncle Mo/ will pay what the similar combo paid last year, though that is unlikely. I think it was an $80 horse followed those two last year. My dad had it.
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10-26-2011, 11:04 AM
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10-26-2011, 12:31 PM
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10-26-2011, 04:27 PM
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10-26-2011, 05:34 PM
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10-26-2011, 08:45 PM
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Moving the Mile is partly about Goldikova and partly about Euro participation. Over the last 10-15 years the leaders of the 12f category in Europe have simply not come to the BC. The milers however have continued to show up at the highest levels. The Mile has been for many years a better race.
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10-26-2011, 10:18 PM
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10-27-2011, 08:30 AM
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That was 10 years ago. The race never superceded the Arc, despite the fact that when it was inaugurated the BCT had a purse about 5x that of Longchamp's 12f. Top milers have continued to come so I think it's fair to say that from top to bottom the Mile has been a stronger race over the last 15 years.
Any given year one race may be better than another (You could argue that last year's Juvie grass races were better than the dirt counterparts) but over the long term the dirt races are generally better races in terms of generating productive 3yo's. Similar with the Mile vs. the Turf. Once the top Euros stopped coming in droves the race weakened. Certainly the last 5 runnings of the Turf don't stand up to the Mile and that takes into account that the presence of Goldikova might ave actually scared some good Euro's away.
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10-27-2011, 09:39 AM
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10-27-2011, 01:28 PM
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10-27-2011, 01:31 PM
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As for this years Juvy it feels like 4 horses would all have to run really bad for anyone else to get the $.
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