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Breeders Cup Odds - World Championships Online Information, Coverage, Stats and Prizes
The Breeders Cup Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races that provides Breeders Cup Odds and horse racing betting options that gives gamblers the chance to win great prizes, besides it also offers a platform to enhance and promote Thoroughbred racing.
Since its inception in 1984, it has been a single-day event, but will expand to two days starting in 2007, pending regulatory approval. 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. |
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The event was created as a year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and also attracts top horses from other parts of the world, especially Europe. The Breeders' Cup was founded in 1982 by John R. Gaines, a leading thoroughbred owner and breeder. It is either the richest or second-richest day in sports, worth $20 million in prize money in 2006 and rising to $23 million for the second day of the 2007 event.
As an international program, the Breeders’ Cup has instituted a nomination process to breeders around the world. Stallion owners annually pay a nomination fee that is the equivalent of a stallion's advertised stud fee, or a minimum of $1,000. Breeders pay a nomination fee of $500 for each foal. Nominated horses are eligible to compete for millions in both the Breeders’ Cup Stakes program and the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships events. Annual nominations from all over the world have made the Breeders’ Cup a truly global institution.
A new qualifying process will take effect from 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, to be held October 27 at Monmouth Park.
For the second consecutive year, ESPN will televise live the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. With the introduction of the new two-day format, live coverage of the race from Monmouth Park will begin on Friday, October 26 (4-6 p.m. ET) on ESPN2 with the three new $1 million Breeders’ Cup races. ESPN’s coverage resumes on Saturday, October 27 with a seven-hour program (12 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET) live from Monmouth with the final eight races.
This horse racing event has no doubt accomplished what its founders set out to do, and more. Today, after 21 years and running, the Breeders’ Cup remains the definitive test of Horse racing champions, and has become thoroughbred racing’s most recognizable and successful showpiece worldwide.
The Last 10 championships have been held at the following tracks:
- 2006 - Churchill Downs
- 2005 - Belmont Park
- 2004 - Lone Star Park
- 2003 - Santa Anita Park
- 2002 - Arlington Park
- 2001 - Belmont Park
- 2000 - Churchill Downs
- 1999 - Gulfstream Park
- 1998 - Churchill Downs
- 1997 - Hollywood Park Racetrack
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