Miracle Mile 2022

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The Miracle Mile has been run at Menangle since 2009. I thought I would look at the barrier stats.
But where do you find them?!
Online Results only go back to 2012 so I needed YouTube to fill in the gaps - poor quality video I'm afraid but the whip use still stands out in some. (We may as well get rid of them now as there is no way they will acceptable in the future)

It was a bit of a chore to research this as you have to do a horse search for each winner, look up their performance record to get the MM date, then look up that date in results. (Horse Performance links to the races do not include barriers)
Having gone to this trouble I thought I may as well include where they settled in the run (in brackets)

You would think that this should already be recorded somewhere (I probably should have asked if anybody knew where first LOL)

2009 Monkey King - ? (4)
2010 Smoken Up - 4 (2)
2011 Smoken Up - 1 (L)
2012 not held
2013 Baby Bling - 2 (5)
2013 Beautide - 4 (5)
2014 Christen Me - 4 (6)
2015 not held
2016 Have Faith In Me - 5 (6)
2017 Lennytheshark - 5 (2)
2018 My Field Marshal - 3 (6)
2019 Spankem - 6 (L)
2020 King Of Swing - 3 (L)
2021 King Of Swing - 5 (L)

I have always thought that the horses that settle 7 and 8 have no chance and this confirms it.
Why not have a field of 6?
Spankem is the only horse to win from wider than 5 and he did it by leading
Terror To Love (2013 MM) is the only horse drawn wider than 6 and to settle further back than 6 to place
History (albeit short) is suggesting Bondi and Eclipse have no chance

Here are the links to the race results for 2013 - 2021

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...13#MEM28041301

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...13#PCM30111301

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...14#PCM29111401

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...16#PCM28021601

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...17#PCM25021701

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...18#PCM24021801

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...19#PCM02031905

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...20#PCM07032001

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...21#PCM06032101

These are the links to the Monkey King and Smoken Up wins from their performance records (but no barrier positions)

http://www.harness.org.au/ausbreed/r...de=XMM29110901

http://www.harness.org.au/ausbreed/r...de=XMM27111001

http://www.harness.org.au/ausbreed/r...de=MEM26111101