metroj Wrote:
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> fwiw, actually Keeneland is running the BC Dirt
> Mile at two turns, their moving the starting gate
> up a 1/16th of a mile and will finish where their
> 1 1/16th mile dirt races always do. Heard that
> even with the gate moving up they will still have
> more run to the 1st turn than Santa Anita does
> when that venue conducts mile dirt races.
>
> ....mainly just a lurker here but wanted to pass
> that along since the BC dirt mile has been
> mentioned in some other threads as well.


Actually I am hoping this is the case because even though I have no doubt that
a 6f sprint and a 7f sprint would each draw full fields, the Mile should be
run at something close to a one mile distance.

Or should it? Just guessing here, but if you take all the dirt races run at
two turns in the US, the average distance of these races would likely be
closer to 1-[sup]1/[/sup][sub]16[/sub] miles rather than a "flat" mile.

Probably a fairer race with the longer run to the turn, this BC Dirt Mile+. If
the BC is awarded to a venue which has a mile chute (such as Belmont, if NYRA
survives the K-Bomb and somehow falls into the hands of competent leadership),
revert to the one mile distance.