The Breeder's Cup is a horse race that began in the 1980s which allows horses of different ages and from different countries to complete for large purses. Compete in sprints and distance races during the Breeder's cup with insight from a former professional jockey in this free video on horse racing.
Here's some facts and history of the Breeder's Cup. If you're not familiar with the Breeder's Cup, this is an event that happens once a year that invites horses all over the world to come and compete. The best horses of every category. This started back, it was the idea of an owner and breeder named John Gains in the early eighties that thought that, why restrict it to just three year old colts like the Kentucky Derby? Why restrict it just horses in America? This was an open invitation to bring horses in all over the world to compete for these championship series. Now these championship series, what would be the incentive to have people bring their horses in from all over the world? Well, these amazing purses that they developed. And the idea was for the owners and breeders, for a small nomination fee, they could put up this nomination fee to be Breeder's Cup eligible, and because this is a big world and there's thousands and thousands of foals bred every year, that these nomination fees created these amazing purses. So, what this became was more than...in more than like the Kentucky Derby being just restricted to one category of horses, this is colts and fillies. This is two year olds and three year olds, and older horses. This is turf and dirt. These are sprints and distance races. This is a great big world series of horse races where horses are invited all over the world to come compete in. And that's what we know as the Breeder's Cup.
Specialty: Horseracing/Jockey
