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The Breeders’ Cup Challenge is adding 4 horse races that will give the winners automatic bids to the Breeders’ Cup on October 24-25 at Santa Anita Park.
Three of the four added Breeders’ Cup Challenge horse races are automatic qualifiers for the new $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Marathon, to be run at 1 1/2 miles for 3-year-olds and up. They are the Greenwood Cup at Philadelphia Park, the Cougar II Handicap at Del Mar and the Turfway Park Fall Championship at Turfway Park in Kentucky.
The one-mile Tiznow Stakes at Louisiana Downs is a qualifier for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.
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The 2008 Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Santa Anita Park on October 24-25 will card 5 races for females on the opening day Friday, October 24. The remaining 9 Breeders’ Cup races, 7 of them open to males and females, will be held Saturday, October 25.
The Breeders’ Cup also announced Wednesday, February 27, that it has renamed the Breeders Cup Distaff the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic. The Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic will be the premier race on the Breeders’ Cup Friday program.
View the 2008 Breeders Cup Schedule.
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The Breeders’ Cup Challenge, a series of automatic qualifying races for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, will be expanded from 24 races to a minimum of 49 races at 12 of North America’s premier horse racing venues in 2008, Breeders’ Cup announced today.
The expanded Breeders’ Cup Challenge will now include six international races at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. Other new markets and tracks for the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge include Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash.; Suffolk Downs in Boston; Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del.; Calder Race Course near Miami; and Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.
The 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races will begin on July 5 with races from Monmouth Park, host of last year’s Breeders’ Cup. The Monmouth races are the Salvator Mile (gr. III) at 1 mile on dirt and the United Nations (gr. I) at 1 3/8 miles on turf.
Breeders’ Cup Challenge races will be televised on ABC, ESPN, TVG and HRTV in more than 120 countries.
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The 2009 Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships will be held at California’s Santa Anita Park, which is also this year’s host. It is the first time in Breeders’ Cup history that the event will be hosted in the same site for 2 consecutive years. The 2008-09 BC will be held during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet.
The Breeders’ Cup is not a stranger in southern California. Santa Anita has hosted the Breeders’ Cup three times, in 2003, 1993 and 1986. Three of the first four Breeders’ Cups were held in California, in 1984 at Hollywood Park, 1986 at Santa Anita Park and 1987 again at Hollywood Park.
The Breeders’ Cup is horse racing’s most prestigious event. It annually attracts the best race horses from North America and Europe. Over the past 3 years, the Breeders’ Cup has experienced unprecedented growth, with total races expanding from 8 to 14, and total purses increasing from $14 million to $25.5 million, the richest prize-money event in sports.
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Breeders’ Cup 2008 just got bigger as the officials of Breeders’ Cup Limited announced Monday, December 10, the addition of three new Breeders’ Cup World Championships races in 2008, increasing the event to a record 14 races and raising total purses to an all-time high of $25.5 million. The 25th Breeders’ Cup will be held on October 24-25 at the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calififornia.
The new Breeders’ Cup World Championships races, which will be run on Breeders’ Cup Friday, October 24, are:
Friday’s program of six Breeders’ Cup races will be followed on Saturday, October 25, by eight more Breeders’ Cup races worth $20 million. It is headed by the following grade I races: $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic and the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf.
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The American Graded Stakes Committee which held a grading session on November 27 released the results on November 28. The committee reviewed 718 unrestricted U.S. stakes with a purse of at least $75,000, and assigned graded status to 481, seven more than last year. In 2008, 67% of eligible races will be grade I, II, or III.
In all, 10 races were upgraded; three to grade I and seven to grade II. There will be 18 new grade III events in 2008. No races were downgraded from grade I to grade II. Meanwhile, three grade II events and three grade III events are no longer eligible for grading.
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Curlin, 2007 Preakness Stakes winner, dominated Monmouth Park Saturday, October 27th to win the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. His performance settled the question on who should have the honor of being the 2007 Horse of the Year.
Curlin covered 1 1/4 miles in 2:00.59 and paid $10.80, $5.20 and $4.20. He is ridden by Robby Albarado and trained by Steve Asmussen. It is their first Breeders’ Cup win.
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By GREG MELIKOV
Rain may be a major player in the 24th Breeders Cup on Friday and Saturday at Monmouth Park. There’s an 80 percent chance of rain on Friday and Saturday, according to the Weather Channel, up from forecasts earlier in the week.
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By GREG MELIKOV
One thing is certain Saturday at Monmouth Park, the racing conditions will be off and soft for the remaining eight Breeders’ Cup races.
The main track is sealed and depending on the amount of rain, the surface will be either muddy or sloppy. The turf course will be yielding.
On Thursday, the first two contests were on a muddy main track. Surprisingly, winner of the first race, with a claiming purse of $32,000, covered the six furlongs in 1:08 4/5.
“Idiot Proof who is in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint is the record holder her and set it this summer – 1:07 2/5,” said Paul Grimm, editor of the Oceanport Racing Report. “If we see this same muddy condition on Saturday we could see another track record at this distance.”
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In a short period of time, Tiago, the half brother of the 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giancomo, achieved an unsual amount of success leading into the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
On April 7, 2007, Tiago burst onto horse racing’s national stage by winning the Grade I Santa Anita Derby. This triumph was followed by a seventh-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. After skipping the Preakness Stakes, Tiago finished a credible third in the Belmont Stakes. He then rebounded with an authoritative score in the Grade II Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park.
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