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

The anticipated intercontinental showdown on this 12 months’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional 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 Traditional are the same old prime North American stars, together with DraftKings Travers Stakes winner Fierceness, in addition to Japan-based standouts Ceaselessly 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 Ceaselessly Younger positioned on this 12 months’s Kentucky Derby Introduced by Woodford Reserve, Ushba Tesoro received the 2023 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline and positioned second on this 12 months’s version of that race, Derma Sotogake completed second in final 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Traditional, 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 12 months.

Total, these abroad runners pre-entered within the Traditional are simply the beginning as horses from a document 5 continents – Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America – have focused this 12 months’s occasion as a document 80 worldwide contenders have been pre-entered. The earlier document was 60, set in 2023. 

These 80 worldwide entries have paced Breeders’ Cup to 212 horses pre-entered this 12 months, probably 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 probably 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 12 months 49 pre-entered horses earned computerized beginning positions into the World Championships races by the Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection: “Win and You’re In.”

“The document variety of excellent worldwide contenders pre-entered this 12 months speaks to the really world nature of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships and is a testomony to the connections who’ve focused our competition of racing,” mentioned Breeders’ Cup president and CEO Drew Fleming. “We categorical our gratitude to the expert people worldwide who present the distinctive care that enables these exceptional Thoroughbreds to excel on the highest degree.

“We additionally thank our hosts at Del Mar Thoroughbred Membership for his or her great hospitality and prolong 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 stay up for internet hosting a Breeders’ Cup for the ages at Del Mar.”

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

2024 Put up Instances, Wagering Menu

This 12 months’s occasion consists of 4 earlier Breeders’ Cup winners searching 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 received final 12 months’s FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Introduced by TAA and figures to be among the many favorites for this 12 months’s Traditional.

Whereas Auguste Rodin just isn’t 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 Massive Evs is also again, and this 12 months will deal with 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 record. 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 Operating Lion, who was entered within the Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf however is not going to run in that race. That transfer opens a spot for Godolphin’s Fasig-Tipton Jockey Membership Oaks Invitational Stakes winner Lovely Love.

Tv

The Breeders’ Cup will probably be televised reside 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 reside protection is led by ITV4, Sky Sports activities, and RacingTV in the UK and Eire, together with Inexperienced Channel in Japan, which can broadcast reside from Del Mar. Moreover, the NBC World Feed will probably be despatched to greater than 150 international locations across the globe.

The Breeders’ Cup Traditional, broadcast reside on NBC and streamed reside on Peacock, would be the centerpiece of the Championships Saturday program. New this 12 months, to reap the benefits of the two ½-hour nationwide broadcast window on NBC, publish time for the Traditional will probably be 2:41 p.m. PT/5:41 p.m. ET. There will probably be 4 Championship races earlier than and 4 Championship races after the Traditional, 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 applied 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 probably be stuffed by horses so as of panel choice.

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