Pre-Entries Level to a Most Worldwide 2024 Breeders’ Cup

The anticipated intercontinental showdown on this yr’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Basic took one other step towards actuality Oct. 23 with the announcement of pre-entered runners in that $7 million showcase in addition to the opposite 13 races within the Breeders’ Cup World Championships set for Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar.

Among the many horses pre-entered within the Nov. 2 Breeders’ Cup Basic are the same old high North American stars, together with DraftKings Travers Stakes winner Fierceness, in addition to Japan-based standouts Endlessly Younger, Ushba Tesoro, and Derma Sotogake, and from Eire, Metropolis of Troy.

Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries

These worldwide horses are anticipated to be main gamers as Endlessly Younger positioned on this yr’s Kentucky Derby Offered by Woodford Reserve, Ushba Tesoro gained the 2023 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline and positioned second on this yr’s version of that race, Derma Sotogake completed second in final yr’s Breeders’ Cup Basic, and Metropolis of Troy, a Kentucky-bred son of 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify, counts the Epsom Derby amongst his three Group 1 wins this yr.

Total, these abroad runners pre-entered within the Basic are simply the beginning as horses from a report 5 continents – Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America – have focused this yr’s occasion as a report 80 worldwide contenders have been pre-entered. The earlier report was 60, set in 2023. 

These 80 worldwide entries have paced Breeders’ Cup to 212 horses pre-entered this yr, essentially the most since 2018 at Churchill Downs.

The 41^st operating of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, with purses and awards totaling greater than $34 million, will likely be at Del Mar for a 3rd time after coming to the seaside oval in 2017 and 2021. Future Stars Friday options 5 World Championships races solely for 2-year-olds, whereas a 12-race card that includes 9 Breeders’ Cup races makes up the Championships Saturday program.

This yr 49 pre-entered horses earned automated beginning positions into the World Championships races by way of the Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection: “Win and You’re In.”

“The report variety of excellent worldwide contenders pre-entered this yr speaks to the actually world nature of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships and is a testomony to the connections who’ve focused our pageant of racing,” mentioned Breeders’ Cup president and CEO Drew Fleming. “We specific our gratitude to the expert people worldwide who present the distinctive care that enables these exceptional Thoroughbreds to excel on the highest stage.

“We additionally thank our hosts at Del Mar Thoroughbred Membership for his or her fantastic hospitality and lengthen our appreciation to our breeders and nominators, whose dedication helps underwrite the World Championships. We additionally thank the bettors and followers from across the globe for his or her unwavering assist, and look ahead to internet hosting a Breeders’ Cup for the ages at Del Mar.”

Entry a full checklist of pre-entries at this hyperlink.

2024 Submit Instances, Wagering Menu

This yr’s occasion contains 4 earlier Breeders’ Cup winners on the lookout for extra success. Included in that group is champion Juddmonte homebred Idiomatic, who will attempt to defend her 2023 Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff victory in an anticipated discipline of 12 fillies and mares that may embody Thorpedo Anna, who has unofficially locked up the 3-year-old filly Eclipse along with her 4 Grade 1 wins together with the Longines Kentucky Oaks and her runner-up end to Fierceness within the Travers. Fierceness gained final yr’s FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Offered by TAA and figures to be among the many favorites for this yr’s Basic.

Whereas Auguste Rodin is just not again to defend his victory within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, that discipline does function 2022 Turf winner Insurgent’s Romance, a Godolphin homebred. The 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Dash winner Large Evs is also again, and this yr will sort out the Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash.

As beforehand reported, The Chosen Vron was pre-entered within the Cygames Breeders’ Cup Dash however won’t be able to make the race after being positioned on the vet’s checklist. With The Chosen Vron out, Meta Max, a Kentucky-bred, Group 3-placed runner in Japan, is within the discipline of 14.

One other late change following pre-entries entails Group 2 winner Working Lion, who was entered within the Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf however won’t run in that race. That transfer opens a spot for Godolphin’s Fasig-Tipton Jockey Membership Oaks Invitational Stakes winner Stunning Love.

Tv

The Breeders’ Cup will likely be televised stay domestically on NBC, Peacock, USA Community, and FanDuel TV. The NBC protection features a community window from 3:30-6 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 2. Followers can go to BreedersCup.com/Look ahead to an in depth broadcast and streaming schedule. Worldwide stay protection is led by ITV4, Sky Sports activities, and RacingTV in the UK and Eire, together with Inexperienced Channel in Japan, which is able to broadcast stay from Del Mar. Moreover, the NBC World Feed will likely be despatched to greater than 150 international locations across the globe.

The Breeders’ Cup Basic, broadcast stay on NBC and streamed stay on Peacock, would be the centerpiece of the Championships Saturday program. New this yr, to reap the benefits of the two ½-hour nationwide broadcast window on NBC, submit time for the Basic will likely be 2:41 p.m. PT/5:41 p.m. ET. There will likely be 4 Championship races earlier than and 4 Championship races after the Basic, centering the marquee race as the top of the center Decide 5 and the beginning of the late Decide 5 on the wagering menu. 

Fields

A most of 14 starters are allowed in every of the 14 Breeders’ Cup World Championships races apart from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Dash and the Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash, that are every restricted to 12 starters.

Breeders’ Cup Restricted has adopted a discipline choice system to pick out runners within the occasion fields are oversubscribed. This technique ranks horses so as of choice based mostly on (i) Breeders’ Cup Problem race winners, (ii) some extent system, and (iii) the judgment of an impartial worldwide panel of racing specialists. The sphere choice system was carried out following the taking of pre-entries Oct. 21 to formally rank the oversubscribed fields. The Racing Secretaries and Administrators Panel ranked all of the horses pre-entered within the oversubscribed races as described above. After pre-entry, any vacancies within the fields will likely be crammed by horses so as of panel choice.

There will likely be as much as 4 also-eligible horses for every Championship race, apart from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Dash and Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash, which could have as much as six. The also-eligible horses will likely be designated in accordance with the panel’s order of choice for every Championship race that was oversubscribed on the time of pre-entry.

Scratch time for Friday Championship races will likely be 8 a.m. PT, Nov. 1, and scratch time for Saturday’s Championship races will likely be at 8 a.m. PT Nov. 2.