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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 idea for the Breeders' Cup was proposed at the 1982 awards luncheon for the Kentucky Derby Festival by pet food heir John R. Gaines (1928–2005), [ 9 ] a leading ...
American Pharoah: 2015 winner of the U.S. Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup World Championships in Lexington, Kentucky at Keeneland Race Course; Animal Kingdom: American Thoroughbred racehorse; won 137th Kentucky Derby and 2013 Dubai World Cup; Apapane: 2010 Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown winner; Archer: first and second winner of the Melbourne Cup
The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
The Classic field was among the 212 horses, including a record 80 from overseas, pre-entered Wednesday for the more than $34 million, 14-race world championships on Nov. 1-2 at the seaside track ...
The Classic is one of 14 World Championship races taking place in Arcadia, California, on Nov. 3-4, an event that will bring 205 of the world’s best thoroughbreds together in pursuit of year-end ...
The Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race whose first running was on January 28, 2017 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is run over the dirt at the distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (9 furlongs) and is open to horses four years old and up.
Bob Baffert's Arabian Knight is the favorite in the $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic. There are no Triple Crown race winners in the field of 12.
He won the Breeders' Cup Classic and was named the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and World's Best Racehorse of 2016. As a four-year old, Arrogate won the 2017 Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup. Upon returning to the United States, however, Arrogate suffered three straight defeats.