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2009 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing at Santa Anita Park

Where: Santa Anita in Arcadia, California
When: Breeders Cup - November 6 - 7, 2009
Watch: See it on TV with ESPN at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time

The Breeders' Cup World Championships. This year the Breeders' Cup is at Santa Anita in Los Angeles, CA, for a second consecutive year on November 6 and 7.

The new Breeders’ Cup World Championships races, which will be run on Breeders’ Cup Friday, October 24, are: the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint for 3-year-olds and up to be run in 6 1/2 furlongs on turf; $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf for 2-year-old fillies to be run in 1 mile on turf; and the $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Marathon for 3-year-olds and up to be run in 1 1/2 miles.

The Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint will be contested on Santa Anita’s signature El Camino Real “down the hill” turf course, with a maximum of 14 starters. The Juvenile Fillies Turf will be limited to 12 starters. The institution of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Marathon boosts total purses for the 14 Breeders’ Cup races to $25.5 million.

The addition of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint comes less than one year after the establishment of three new Breeders’ Cup $1 million races “ the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf which were all held for the first time at Monmouth Park at the 24th Breeders’ Cup on Friday, October 26. Next year, those three races and the new Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Marathon will increase Breeders’ Cup Friday purses past $5 million.

BREEDERS' CUP 2009 RACE SCHEDULE

November 6, 2009 Breeders' Cup Races at Santa Anita Park

* Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT), $2,000,000g, 3&up, f/m, 11f (turf).
* Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I), $2,000,000g, 2yo f, 8.5f.
* Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I), $2,000,000g, 3&up, f/m, 9f.
* Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I), $1,000,000g, 3&up, f/m, 7f.
* Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, $1,000,000g, 2yo f, 8f (turf).

November 7, 2009 Breeders' Cup Races at Santa Anita Park

* Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I), $5,000,000g, 3&up, 10f.
* Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT), $3,000,000g, 3&up, 12f (turf).
* Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I), $2,000,000g, 2yo, c/g, 8.5f.
* Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT), $2,000,000g, 3&up, 8f (turf).
* Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), $2,000,000g, 3&up, 6f.
* Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I), $1,000,000g, 3&up, 8f.
* Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT), $1,000,000g, 2yo, 8f (turf).
* Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, $1,000,000g, 3&up, 6.5f (turf).
* Breeders' Cup Marathon, $500,000g, 3&up, 12f.

BREEDERS' CUP 2009 CLASSIC ENTRIES

Breeders' Cup History

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 Nov. 10, 1984, before a crowd of 64,254 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.

In 1986, a separate $250,000 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase, run two weeks earlier than the series at a different track, was added to the program. That race was discontinued after 1993. A turf race for fillies and mares was added in 1999.

Three new races were added in 2007: the filly and mare sprint, the juvenile turf, and the dirt mile. They were raced on Friday, the day before the other eight races.

The most important race in the series, the Breeders' Cup Classic, has a total purse of $5 million, with a winner's share of more than $2 million. Purses for the eleven races total $23 million.

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