Breeders Cup Betting Guide
June 9, 2009
The Breeders Cup is a two day festival of top class Group One horse races run in America during the Fall each year. Dates vary, but the Breeders Cup meeting is usually held on either the last weekend of October or the first weekend in November and is staged at some of the United States’s leading Race tracks including Sant Anita Park, CA, (venue in 2008 and again in 2009), Monmouth Park, NJ, Chuchhill Dows, KY, Belmont Park, NY, Arlington, IL, amongst others.
The meeting is made up of 14 races across the two days, eight of which are Grade One races and the total prize money for the meeting stnads at in excess of $25 million. The different races are run over a variety of distances on either the Turf or Dirt track and open to Colts, Fillies, Mares, Geldings or a combination of all. The various entry requirements for each of the races means that the winners can be crowned champions for that given discipline (distance, surface etc).
Such is the prestige of winning one of the Breeders Cup races, together with the prize money on offer, the best thoroughbreds from around the world descend on the host racetrack in a bid for victory. This includes the leading horses from Europe as well as America and much media hype is often made about the battle between the horses, trainers and owners of the two continents in the build up to the Breeders Cup meeting.
Due to its huge popularity with race fans on both sides of the Atlantic, Breeders Cup Betting is big business for the bookmakers in Europe and the Sportsbooks in the USA. Punters both on track, in sports books like those found in Las Vegas and online in Europe are keen to get invovled in the fantastic race action by betting on which horses will the various Breeders Cup races and they can subsquently enjoy the action as all races are shown live on TV.
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