The Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic is likely one of the most essential races on this planet and the horses who compete in it race for a share of a $6 million purse that additionally makes it one of many richest races globally.
This 12 months’s race shall be held Nov. 6 at Del Mar and – because it normally does – the Basic can have main implications on figuring out the winner of Horse of the Yr on the 2021 Eclipse Awards.
Go behind the numbers of this 12 months’s Basic with the details and figures under.
0 – The variety of instances anticipated Breeders’ Cup Basic favourite Knicks Go has competed in a race longer than 1 1/8 miles. The front-runner would want to hold his pace an additional eighth of a mile Nov. 6 at Del Mar within the 1 ¼-mile Basic.
7-to-10 – Odds to win on each Corridor of Famer Cigar (1996) and 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (2015), tied for the shortest-priced winners within the race’s historical past with a $3.40 return on a $2 win guess.
1 – The variety of lifetime losses from 9 profession begins for Essential Quality, the winner of the 2020 TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Offered by TAA who has amassed 5 wins in six begins this season. Important High quality’s wins in 2021 embrace the 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and the 1 ¼-mile Runhappy Travers Stakes. His lone defeat up to now got here when fourth within the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve behind fellow Basic contender Medina Spirit.
1 ¼ miles – The gap of the race. It’s often called the “basic” distance in American racing and it’s the similar distance because the Kentucky Derby.
2 – The variety of Breeders’ Cup Basic wins by Tiznow (2000 and 2001). He’s the only horse to have won it twice.
2 – The variety of horses who’ve each gained the Breeders’ Cup Basic and sired (fathered) a horse who gained the Basic. Superior Once more gained the race in 1998 and sired 2004 victor Ghostzapper; Curlin gained the 2007 Basic and is the sire of 2019 winner Vino Rosso.
3 – The size of the present successful streak for 3 of the main contenders for this 12 months’s Basic. Anticipated favourite Knicks Go, Belmont Stakes winner Important High quality, and Woodward Stakes winner Art Collector all enter the Breeders’ Cup Basic having gained three straight races.
5 – The Basic has been determined by a nostril (the slimmest margin of victory) on 5 events, most just lately when Bayern defeated Toast of New York in 2014.
5 – The document variety of Breeders’ Cup Basic wins shared by Corridor of Fame jockeys Jerry Bailey and Chris McCarron. Fellow Corridor of Famer Mike Smith has 4 wins within the race and will be a part of them this 12 months ought to he be named to trip one of many contenders.
6 ½ lengths – The record-breaking successful margin when American Pharoah gained the 2015 Basic.
18 ¾ lengths – The mixed margin of victory in his final three begins for possible favourite Knicks Go, who enters the Basic off a front-running, four-length romp within the Lukas Classic Stakes Oct. 2 at Churchill Downs.
21 – The variety of instances the Horse of the Yr (racing’s highest year-end honor) title has gone to a horse who competed within the Basic. The Basic winner was named Horse of the Yr on 14 of these events, together with Genuine final 12 months.
24 – The variety of instances the Basic winner was age 4 or older. Within the different 13 editions, the winner was a 3-year-old.
$24.86 – Common successful payout on a $2 win guess on the Basic winner. It has the third-highest common payout of any present Breeders’ Cup race. The Filly and Mare Sprint ranks first at $27.02.
27% – The success fee of the betting favourite within the race. The favourite has gained 10 of 37 editions.
38 – This 12 months is the thirty eighth version of the race. It has been the Breeders’ Cup centerpiece for the reason that occasion’s inception in 1984.
56 – The age of Corridor of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker when he gained the 1987 Breeders’ Cup Basic aboard Ferdinand. Shoemaker is the oldest rider to win a Breeders’ Cup race within the historical past of the World Championships.
$64.60 – Successful $2 payout on the first-ever Breeders’ Cup Basic, when Wild Again won at odds of 31.30-1 in 1984.
$269.20 – The document $2 win payout within the Basic, when Arcangues won at the astronomical odds of 133.60-1 in 1993. It’s the best win payout in all the Breeders’ Cup occasion historical past.
$6,000,000 – Complete purse of this 12 months’s Basic. The winner will get $3.3 million of that.
$9,768,279 – The mixed purse earnings of the 2 main contenders for the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Basic, each skilled by Brad Cox. Knicks Go has amassed $5,553,135 in 4 seasons of racing, whereas Important High quality has earned $4,125144 in two seasons.
