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Breeders' Cup Juvenile

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Location
  
North America

Website
  
www.breederscup.com

Inaugurated
  
1984

Surface
  
Dirt

Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually in early November at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships.

Contents

Distance : 1 mile (1984-1985, 1987);  1 1⁄16 miles (1986, 1988-2001, 2003 to present);  1 1⁄8 miles (2002).

In 2006, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) wrote in Part 2 of their special series titled Spiraling To The Breeders' Cup that "Arazi turned in what many still consider to be the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history."

Timber Country went on to become the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner to win one of the U.S. Triple Crown race for three-year-olds when he won the 1995 Preakness Stakes. The 2006 winner, Street Sense, became the first to capture the Kentucky Derby.

Automatic Berths

Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup developed "The Breeders' Cup Challenge," a series of races in each division that allotted automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the thirteen divisions has between two and twelve of these "Win and You're In" qualifying races.

In the Breeders' Cup Juvenile division, the number of runners is limited to 14 with up to four automatic berths. Note though that one horse may win multiple challenge races, while other challenge winners will not be entered in the Breeders' Cup for a variety of reasons such as injury or travel considerations.

The 2016 "Win and You're In" races are:

  1. the Iroquois Stakes, a Grade 3 race run in September at Churchill Downs in Kentucky
  2. the FrontRunner Stakes, a Grade 1 race run in October at Santa Anita Park in California
  3. the Champagne Stakes, a Grade 1 race run in October at Belmont Park in New York
  4. the Breeders' Futurity, a Grade 1 race at Keeneland in Kentucky

Records

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1985, 1986, 1988)
  • 3 - Jerry Bailey (1996, 1998, 2000)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - D. Wayne Lukas (1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1996)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Eugene V. Klein (1987, 1988)
  • 2 - Overbrook Farm (with partners in 1994, 1996)

    • Winners of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile

    † - 1984, 1985, 1987 were run at 1 mile, current distance is  1 1⁄16 miles

    References

    Breeders' Cup Juvenile Wikipedia
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