2023 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a race for 3-year-olds and older and will be run around the two turns of the main track.
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
Purse: | $1,000,000 | Grade: | 1 |
Distance: | 1 Mile | Age: | 3+ |
The 2023 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile will be held on Saturday, November 4 at Santa Anita Park. Bet & watch the race with OffTrackBetting.com (OTB) - US Legal Online Wagering.
CODY'S WISH SEEKS TITLE DEFENSE IN BIG ASS FANS BREEDERS' CUP DIRT MILE
OCT 25 - Complementing the FanDuel Mile during the Saturday program is the $1 million Big Ass Fans Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1), headlined by Godolphin's defending champion Cody's Wish. The nation was captivated last year by the incredible story of Cody Dorman, a teenager who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, who bonded with a Gainsborough Farm foal in Versailles, Ky., as a part of Keeneland's association with the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
That foal, of course, became Cody's Wish, and Cody Dorman was at Keeneland last year to see his namesake win the Dirt Mile. This year, Cody's Wish has won three of four starts, including grade 1 wins in the Churchill Downs Stakes presented by Ford (G1) and the Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1).
Big challenges to Cody's Wish could come from SF Racing, Starlight Racing and Madaket Stables et al's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner National Treasure, and Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Practical Move.
2023 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Entries
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Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Winners
Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
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2020 | Knicks Go | Joel Rosario | Brad Cox | 1:33.85 |
2019 | Spun to Run | Irad Ortiz, Jr. | Juan Guerrero | 1:36.58 |
2018 | City of Light | Javier Castellano | Michael McCarthy | 1:33.83 |
2017 | Battle of Midway | Flavien Prat | Jerry Hollendorfer | 1:35.20 |
2016 | Tamarkuz | Mike Smith | Kiaran P. McLaughlin | 1:35.72 |
2015 | Liam's Map | Javier Castellano | Todd Pletcher | 1:34.54 |
2014 | Goldencents | Rafael Bejarano | Leandro Mora | 1:35.19 |
2013 | Goldencents | Rafael Bejarano | Doug O'Neill | 1:35.12 |
2012 | Tapizar | Corey Nakatani | Steven M. Asmussen | 1:35.34 |
2011 | Caleb's Posse | Rajiv Maragh | Donnie Von Hemel | 1:34.59 |
2010 | Dakota Phone | Joel Rosario | Jerry Hollendorfer | 1:35.29 |
2009 | Furthest Land | Julien Leparoux | Michael J. Maker | 1:35.50 |
2008 | Albertus Maximux | Garrett Gomez | Vladimir Cerin | 1:33.41 |
2007 | Corinthian | Kent Desormeaux | James A. Jerkens | 1:39.06 |
About the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
The Breeders' Cup Las Vegas Dirt Mile is a 1-mile (1.6 km) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it is part of the Breeders' Cup thoroughbred championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and is run on a dirt course (either natural dirt or a synthetic surface such as Polytrack). This contrasts with the similar Breeders' Cup Mile, run on grass. All Breeders' Cups to date have been conducted in the United States, with the exception of the 1996 event in Canada.
The Dirt Mile race was run for the first time in 2007 during the first day of the expanded Breeders' Cup at that year's host track, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. It became a Grade I event in 2009.
Occasionally, various track configurations require minor changes in the distance of the race. The 2007 race at Monmouth Park was held at a distance of 1 mile 70 yards (1673 m) instead of the normal distance of 1-mile (1.6 km). The 2015 Breeders' Cup will be held at Keeneland, which does not have the ability to run one mile dirt races, and so the Dirt Mile is scheduled to be run out of the backstretch chute at a distance of 7 furlongs, 384 feet (1525 m).
2024 BREEDERS' CUP RACE SCHEDULE
Breeders' Cup Race | Grade | Purse | Date |
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint | I | $1,000,000 | November 1 |
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies | I | $2,000,000 | November 1 |
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf | I | $1,000,000 | November 1 |
Breeders' Cup Juvenile | I | $2,000,000 | November 1 |
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf | I | $1,000,000 | November 1 |
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile | I | $1,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf | I | $2,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint | I | $1,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Mile | I | $2,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Distaff | I | $2,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Turf | I | $5,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Classic | I | $7,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint | I | $1,000,000 | November 2 |
Breeders' Cup Sprint | I | $2,000,000 | November 2 |