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He ultimately held strong to win by
nearly four-tenths of a second, earning his
75th career Grand National Champion
-
ship victory in the process. It also further
underlined his modern-day Mile mastery,
representing his 28th such victory to
move within one of Chris Carr for second
in the discipline's all-time order. Remark
-
ably, 25 of those 28 have come since he
joined Indian in 2017, an era in which he's
racked up a stunning 64 percent (and
climbing) victory rate on the Miles.
The only downside of Mees's domi
-
nant evening was that his primary title
rival, Estenson Racing Yamaha's Dallas
Daniels, also accomplished exactly what
he needed at the DuQuoin Mile.
While Daniels would have loved to
have beaten Mees straight-up at one of
the rounds where his hopes for an un
-
precedented 10th Grand National Cham-
pionship appear to hinge, merely contain-
ing the ground gained by the champ to
four points when down by 19 with just
six races remaining was a significant big-
picture win for the challenger.
Jared Mees celebrates
winning the DuQuoin
Mile with his tuner
Kenny Tolbert.
MEES MAGNIFICENT
JARED MEES CHALKS UP TH CAREER GRAND
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY
