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Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships
Distance:
See individual races
Race type: Thoroughbred
Age: (G1) 3 Year Olds & Up
Sex: Male & Female
Purse: Varies by Race; Between
$2 Million - $5 Million
Location: Changes yearly
Inaugurated: 1984
Track: Turf, Dirt
Weight: See individual races
Website:
Official Breeders' Cup website
 Every
year, the sport of Horse racing comes to a fitting
finale with the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred
Championships. This traveling year-end championship
features eight all-star horse races collectively
worth $14 million in purses, showcasing the world's
best in thoroughbred horses racing.
Unrivaled in its millions in prize money and its
international cast of talent, the prestigious Breeders'
Cup races offer nonstop action in horse racing betting
and handicapping..
Breeders' Cup Limited was founded in 1982 to stage
an annual series of championship Thoroughbred races
with a multi-million-dollar total purse. The first
series of seven races was held Nov. 10, 1984 at
Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California, before
64,254 horse racing fans..
In 1986, a separate $250,000 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase
was added to the program, it was run two weeks earlier
than the series at a different track. But the race
was discontinued after 1993. A turf race for fillies
and mares was added in 1999..
But the most important race in the series is the
Breeders' Cup Classic. It has a total purse of $4
million with a winner's share of more than $2 million.
Purses for the eight races now total $13 million.
Breeders' Cup Races
The Breeders' Cup Classic
Distance: 1 Miles
Age: (G1) 3 Year Olds & Up
Sex: Male & Female
Purse: $4 Million
The Breeders' Cup Classic is considered the most
important race in the series of Breeders' Cup World
Thoroughbred Championships events. This race has
produced nine Horses of the Year in its first 20
runnings.
Run at 1 and miles on dirt, the Breeders' Classic
kicked off in 1984 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood,
California. Of the $14 million total purse for the
eight Breeders' Cup races, the Classic accounts
for $4 million, with a winner's share of more than
$2 million.
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The Breeders' Cup Distaff
Distance: 1 1/8 Miles
Age: (G1) Fillies & Mares 3
Year Olds & Up
Sex: Female
Purse: $2 Million
The Breeders' Cup Distaff has produced three of
the seven highest-priced winners in the Breeders'
Cup event's history to date. This $2 million race
for fillies and mares has actually been among the
most consistent and predictable of the original
seven Breeders' Cup races (not counting the Filly
& Mare Turf, which begun in 1999).
That record of consistency can be traced back as
early as to the inaugural Breeders' Cup Distaff
in 1984 at Hollywood Park. Princess Rooney, winner
of the Vanity Handicap (G1) and Spinster Stakes
(G1) in prior starts, went off as the 7-to-10 favorite
and rolled to a seven-length victory.
The Breeders' Cup Mile
Distance: 1 Mile (Turf)
Age: (G1) 3 Year Olds & Up
Sex: Male & Female
Purse: $1.5 Million
The Breeders' Cup Mile has created an interesting
pattern of sorts in that, for this $1.5 million
series on turf good things have come in two's. Four
Mile events of the Breeders' Cup races have had
repeat winners. Also, the Mile has had three horses
who have posted two victories each.
Miesque, bred by owner Stavros Niarchos' Flaxman
Holdings Ltd., sparkled in the Breeders' Cup Mile
in 1987 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, and conquered
a significantly slower surface at Churchill Downs
in Louisville the following year. Trained by Francois
Boutin, the remarkable filly won by 3 lengths in
California and by 4 lengths in Kentucky - the largest
winning margins in the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred
Championships race's history.
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
Distance: 1 3/8 Miles
Age: (G1) Fillies & Mares 3
Year Olds & Up
Sex: Female
Purse: $1 Million
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf was not
a part of the original seven Breeders' Cup races
group that was begun in 1984. It was in 1998 that
the Breeders' Cup board of directors voted on the
decision to fill an obvious gap in the lineup by
creating a $1 million race for fillies and mares.
The first Filly & Mare Turf was held in 1999
at Gulfstream Park.
Until that time, the female turf division had no
definitive championship race, and distaffers were
forced to race in open company. The audacious misses
had to settle for competing against their male counterparts
in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) and the Breeders'
Cup Turf (G1).
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Distance: 1 1/16 Miles
Age: (G1) Colts & Geldings
2 Year Olds
Sex: Male
Purse: $1.5 Million
This $1.5 million race is regarded more as a measure
of 2-year old-form, as it is basically intended
to be among the Breeders' Cup races, and less as
a reliable yardstick of classic potential.
For 19 years now, the Juvenile has not been able
to field a Kentucky Derby winner, and has only produced
one classic winner - Preakness Stakes 1995 victor
Timber Country. With regularity, however, the Derby
winner and other classic winners have been in the
beaten Juvenile field, suggesting that classic winners
were either not sufficiently precocious to win the
Juvenile or found its distance to be too short for
their best efforts.
The Breeder's Cup Juvenile has been run at 1 1/16
miles since 2003. It was originally a 1-mile race
in 1984, 1985, and 1987, and was run at 1 1/8 miles
in 2002.
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
Distance: 1 1/16 Miles
Age: (G1) Fillies 2 Year Olds
Sex: Female
Purse: $1 Million
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies has produced
the most champions in year-end Eclipse Award balloting
among the Breeders' Cup races. The race is widely
regarded as one of the most all-American of the
Breeders' Cup races, this $1 million series produced
17 out of 20 winners that were subsequently voted
year-end champions.
The first Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies was the
second race on the Breeders' Cup inaugural card
in 1984 at Hollywood Park.
The Breeders' Cup Sprint
Distance: 6 Furlongs
Age: 3 Year Olds & Up
Sex: Male & Female
Purse: $1 Million
The Breeders' Cup Sprint gathers the world's fastest
horses yearly to create some 70 seconds' worth of
high-speed action that have provided some wild results
at the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships.
This $1 million race has certainly been a competitive
one, primarily among North American runners, proving
to be a nightmare for handicappers among the Breeders'
Cup races.
As a championship event, the Breeders' Cup Sprint
has been especially decisive in years when no horse
clearly dominated the division. In 12 of the Sprint's
20 runnings, the Eclipse Award for champion sprinter
has gone to the winner.
The Breeders' Cup Turf
Distance: 1 Miles (Turf)
Age: (G1) 3 Year Olds & Up
Sex: Male & Female
Purse: $2 Million
Of the Breeders' Cup races, the Breeders' Cup Turf
follows racing conditions akin to the classic standard
of European thoroughbred racing: 1 miles on grass
at weight for age. As a result, overseas runners
have won a majority of these $2 million races of
the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships.
However, the European contingents have not exactly
been dominant. One reason is the racing schedule,
set in late October or early November. This is beyond
the European calendar, which traditionally culminates
for top horses in early October with the running
of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Fr-G1). Plus European
race horses do not adapt well to warm weather at
the Florida or Southern California sites. In fact,
American owners and trainers have fielded some outstanding
grass runners and defeated top-level European competitors
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