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The 2007 Breeder's Cup Word Championships will be held for the first time on the Jersey Shore this year as Monmouth Park will be the host track. The event will be held on October 26-27.
For the first time in the history of the Breeders' Cup, it will be a two-day event. Three races have been added to the menu and will be contested on Friday. The remaining eight races will be run on Saturday.
The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile will be run for the first time at Monmouth Park. The race is for three year olds and upward. The race will actually be contested at one mile and 70 yards this year because of the configuration of the Monmouth Park dirt track.
Filly and mare sprinters will no longer have to take on the boys. The females now have their own race, the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, going six furlongs on the main track.
The third new race is the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf for two-year-old colts, geldings & fillies. The three new additions to the Breeders' Cup each have a $1 million purse.
The three new races are not graded. The American Graded Stakes Committee, the body that controls grading of stakes races in the United States, requires that a race be run under the same conditions for at least two years before it can be graded.
The eight races on Saturday are all Grade 1 events.
Monmouth Park's summer meeting runs from May 12 through September 2. The track will reopen on Wednesday, October 24 and run through Saturday, October 27.
ESPN and ESPNHD will cover all eleven of the Breeders' Cup races.
D. Wayne Lukas leads all trainers with 18 Breeders' Cup wins. The hall of fame trainer has sent out 146 starters and his stock has accumulated $19,645,520 in earnings.
Jerry Bailey leads all jockeys in wins with 15. The recently retired jockey's mounts have earned $22,006,440. That total is second to Pat Day, his mounts earning $23,033,360.
Mike Smith is the leading active jockey with 10 Breeders' Cup wins.
Here is a breakdown of the eleven Breeders' Cup races:
Breeders' Cup Day One Friday October 26
Friday marks day one of the inaugural two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships. Ten races will be run including three million dollar Breeders' Cup races.
$1 Million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
$1 Million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint
$1 Million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf
Breeders' Cup Day Two Saturday October 27
Saturday marks day two of the inaugural two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships. Eleven races will be run including eight Breeders' Cup races worth a combined $20 million.
$2 Million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
$2 Million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile
$2 Million Emirates Airlines Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf
$2 Million TVG Breeders' Cup Sprint
$2 Million NetJets Breeders' Cup Mile
$2 Million Emirates Airlines Breeders' Cup Distaff
$3 Million John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf
$5 Million Breeders' Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge
Breeders' Cup Challenge Races: Win and Your In
The winners of certain graded stakes known as Breeders' Cup Challenge Races will earn the right to start in the championship race that corresponds to the Breeders' Cup division of the Challenge Race. In the event a horse wins Challenge Races in more than one Breeders' Cup division, that horse may be entered in the Championship Race that
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