The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982. It was created as a year-end championship for North American Thoroughbred racing and also draws top horses from Europe and elsewhere. The first event was in 1984; through 2006 it was a single day, and from 2007 it expanded to two days. Every site has been in the United States except 1996, when the races were held at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada. The Classic, Turf and Mile are ranked among the top Grade I races in the world, and the purses total over thirty million dollars.
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when the races were at the Woodbine Racetrack in Canada
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a year-end championship for North American Thoroughbred racing
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is an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races
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The first event was in 1984.
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an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races
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All sites have been in the United States, except in 1996
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when the races were at the Woodbine Racetrack in Canada
View the SourceVictor Espinoza (Wikipedia)
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he won the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Spain
Mike E. Smith (Wikipedia)
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has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories
Gary Stevens (Wikipedia)
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won eleven Breeders' Cup races
Pat Day (Wikipedia)
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Day won 9 Triple Crown races and 12 Breeders' Cup races.
Chris McCarron (Wikipedia)
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McCarron won nine Breeders' Cup races, including five Breeders' Cup Classics
Javier Castellano (Wikipedia)
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including the 2004 Breeders' Cup Classic
Joel Rosario (Wikipedia)
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A winner of 15 Breeders' Cup races
Flavien Prat (Wikipedia)
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including four Breeders' Cup races
Kent Desormeaux (Wikipedia)
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Unrivaled Belle gave Desormeaux his fifth Breeders' Cup win
Corey Nakatani (Wikipedia)
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He has won ten races in the Breeders' Cup
Luis Saez (Wikipedia)
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Saez won his first Breeders' Cup race in 2020
Rajiv Maragh (Wikipedia)
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He rode his first Breeder's Cup winner on Caleb's Posse in the dirt mile.
Brian Hernandez Jr. (Wikipedia)
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he won the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Fort Larned at Santa Anita Park
Chantal Sutherland (Wikipedia)
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finished 12th aboard Mine That Bird in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita
Garrett K. Gomez (Wikipedia)
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Gomez won two Breeders' Cup events, the Breeders' Cup Juvenile with Stevie Wonderboy and the Breeders' Cup Mile with Artie Schiller
Fernando Toro (Wikipedia)
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Fernando Toro rode the filly Royal Heroine to victory in the 1984 inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Mile
John R. Velazquez (Wikipedia)
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A winner of fifteen Breeders' Cup and six Triple Crown races
Jerry D. Bailey (Wikipedia)
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scored a record five wins in the Breeders' Cup Classic
Calvin Borel (Wikipedia)
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he won his first Breeders' Cup on Street Sense in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Craig Perret (Wikipedia)
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Perret won the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 1984 and 1990
Jorge Velásquez (Wikipedia)
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won the 1985 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Breeders' Cup Classic
Angel Cordero Jr. (Wikipedia)
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Cordero was the winner of four Breeders' Cup races
Julie Krone (Wikipedia)
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first female jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race
Martin Garcia (jockey) (Wikipedia)
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he rode Bayern to a gate-to-wire victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic
Eddie Delahoussaye (Wikipedia)
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as well as seven Breeders' Cup races
Rosie Napravnik (Wikipedia)
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having won the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Shanghai Bobby
Hollie Doyle (Wikipedia)
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she made her debut at the Breeders' Cup, riding Mighty Gurkha in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint
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