This Breeders Cup has been run since 1984 and has gone through a few changes over the years. Starting as a one-day event, it has since expanded into a two-day extravaganza of horse racing. Now one of the biggest paydays in horse racing the Breeders Cup has become a worldwide known event.
This Breeders Cup has been run since 1984 and has gone through a few changes over the years. Starting as a one-day event, it has since expanded into a two-day extravaganza of horse racing. Now one of the biggest paydays in horse racing the Breeders Cup has become a worldwide known event.
There are many different races over the two-day event:
Friday
$500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon (gr. III)
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IIT)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT)
$1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I)
Saturday
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT)
$1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IIT)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT)
$1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I)
$3 million Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT)
$5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I)
The Filly & Mare Sprint, Juvenile Turf, and Dirt Mile were not eligible to be graded stakes in 2007 or 2008. In addition, the Juvenile Fillies Turf, Marathon, and Turf Sprint were unable to be graded in 2008 or 2009.
The American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, the body that controls grading of North American stakes races, requires that a race be run under the same conditions for at least two years before it can be graded.
Starting in 2009, the Filly & Mare Sprint and Dirt Mile became Grade I races, while the Juvenile Turf was Grade II. Although the latter event is the first Breeders' Cup race not to receive Grade I status, it is in a racing category that has no US Grade I events (2-year-olds on turf).
For 2010, the Juvenile Fillies Turf and Turf Sprint received Grade II status, with the Marathon becoming Grade III. The remaining races kept their previous grading.
The 2007 Dirt Mile was run over 1 mile and 70 yards, while the 2007 Filly & Mare Sprint was run over six furlongs. These distances were required because of the configuration of the dirt track at the 2007 Breeders' Cup site of Monmouth Park.
The 2008 and 2009 Turf Sprints were contested on Santa Anita Park's signature El Camino Real “downhill” turf course, with a maximum of 14 starters. In future years, the distance will depend on track configurations.
Beginning in 2007, a new qualifying process took effect, in which the winners of certain races earned automatic entry to the event in their respective divisions.
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