Breeders Cup goes back to Del Mar

[Cork All Star]

I heard on SSR today about how the 2024 Breeders Cup will be at Del Mar.

I do not follow American racing particularly closely. However, if I recall correctly, isn’t the draw a significant factor at the venue? I am sure it was an issue at the first Breeders Cup at Del Mar.

Should the “World Championship” be at a venue where the outcome can literally be luck of the draw?

[IanDavies]

My impression is they don’t move it around as much as they used to.

Hasn’t been at Belmont Park since 2005.

2024 − Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
2023 − Santa Anita Park
2022 − Keeneland
2021 − Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
2020 − Keeneland
2019 – Santa Anita Park
2018 – Churchill Downs
2017 − Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
2016 − Santa Anita Park
2015 − Keeneland
2014 – Santa Anita Park
2013 – Santa Anita Park
2012 – Santa Anita Park
2011 – Churchill Downs
2010 – Churchill Downs
2009 – Santa Anita Park
2008 – Santa Anita Park
2007 – Monmouth Park
2006 – Churchill Downs
2005 – Belmont Park
2004 – Lone Star Park
2003 – Santa Anita Park
2002 – Arlington Park
2001 – Belmont Park
2000 – Churchill Downs
1999 – Gulfstream Park
1998 – Churchill Downs
1997 – Hollywood Park
1996 – Woodbine
1995 – Belmont Park
1994 – Churchill Downs
1993 – Santa Anita Park
1992 – Gulfstream Park
1991 – Churchill Downs
1990 – Belmont Park
1989 – Gulfstream Park
1988 – Churchill Downs
1987 – Hollywood Park
1986 – Santa Anita Park
1985 – Aqueduct
1984 – Hollywood Park

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[Miss Woodford]

Breeders Cup is a week later than it used to be, and New York in November can get awfully cold and sometimes icy. Hollywood and Arlington are closed, Lone Star and Monmouth were both clusterf*cks because the tracks lacked enough capacity for the crowds, and the Stronach Group that purchased Gulfstream in 1999 has made Santa Anita its crown jewel and turned Gulfstream into little more than a casino.

A track that really does deserve to host it is the beautiful and historic Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana, the oldest Thoroughbred racetrack in North America still in operation. If it can handle half a million people for the jazz festival every year it should be fine with a Breeders Cup.

As for Del Mar’s rail bias, I don’t have the statistics on hand but I haven’t noticed it as being much different than any other track of its size.

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