2008 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships Racing Picks & Tips
Every year, the sport of horse racing comes to a fitting finale with the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships. This traveling two-day championship features eleven all-star horse races collectively worth $23 million in purses, showcasing the world's best in thoroughbred horses racing.
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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 November 10th, 1984 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California, before 64,254 horse racing fans.
From its inception in 1984 through 2006, it was a single-day event. Starting in 2007, it expanded to two days. The location changes each year. All sites have been in the United States, except in 1996, when the races were at the Woodbine Racetrack in Canada.
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.
A new qualifying process took effect in 2007, where the winners of 24 races at six tracks - Saratoga Race Course, Arlington Park, Del Mar Racetrack, Belmont Park, Keeneland and Santa Anita during the Oak Tree meeting - will automatically be entered for the event in their respective divisions. Three new races were also added in the same year: Filly & Mare Sprint, Juvenile Turf and Dirt Mile.
But the most important race in the series is the Breeders' Cup Classic. It has a total purse of $5 million with a winner's share of more than $2 million. Purses for the eleven Breeders' Cup races now total $23 million.
The Breeders' Cup races include the following:
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