Breeders' Cup Juvenile


The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually in late October or early November at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships. The current purse is $2,000,000, making it the most valuable race for two-year-olds in North America. It is normally run at a distance of miles.
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is typically the first time that the best colts from the various racing circuits across North America meet up with each other. The winner often earns the Eclipse Award for Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, and becomes one of the early favorites for the next year's Kentucky Derby.
In 2006, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association 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 was the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner to win an American Triple Crown race when he went on to win the 1995 Preakness Stakes. The 2006 winner, Street Sense, became the first to capture the Kentucky Derby.In 2016, Nyquist won the Kentucky Derby as well.

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 2019 "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

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