Arkansas Derby Grade???

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I agree with you that the Arkansas should be on the same level as the Wood, Bluegrass, and Santa Anita Derby but if they made me tzar of racing (which should happen any day now) my solution would be to downgrade those other races to G2 status (along with a bunch of others) rather than to upgrade the Arkansas Derby.

I agree with that...Dave Litfin wrote a column a long time ago about how he gets annoyed with 3YO Derby preps being Grade Is. I really think his point was excellent, that it would make great sense to make them all Grade IIs (those being the big ones of course). It would also go a long way towards uniformity.

NT