Gstaad closed Future Stars on Friday at the Juvenile Turf. (Jenny Doyle/Beyond the Wire)
At the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for the fifth year in a row
Release of the Breeders Cup
DEL MAR, Calif. – The total for the 10-race schedule on the first day of the 42nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Oct. 31 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club was $62,008,354. It was the fifth year in a row that the Friday value exceeded $60 million.
The Future Stars Friday card featured five Breeders’ Cup races for 2-year-old horses, the eighth consecutive year that the Breeders’ Cup has carded all of its juvenile races on the same day since the event expanded to the two-day format in 2007.
The number of visitors on Friday was 30,059. The handle on the job was $6,216,798.
Breeders’ Cup Friday Attendance and records processing
2025: Del Mar – 30,059; $62,008,354
2024: Del Mar – 30,982; $63,679,944
2023: Santa Anita Park – 43,377; $62,136,939
2022: Keeneland – 39,851; $66,141,766
2021: Del Mar – 20,536; $61,696,893
2020: Keeneland – No attendance reported due to COVID-19; $51,409,606
2019: Santa Anita Park – 41,243; $56,517,228
2018: Churchill Downs – 42,249; $53,636,272
2017: Del Mar – 32,728; $52,273,883
2016: Santa Anita — 45,673; $49,651,600
2015: Keeneland – 44,497; $46,251,965
2014: Santa Anita — 37,205; $47,666,982
2013: Santa Anita — 35,633; $52,594,370
2012: Santa Anita — 34,619; $48,997,009
2011: Churchill Downs – 40,677; $52,095,202
2010: Churchill Downs – 41,614; $54,889,388
2009: Santa Anita — 37,651; $50,662,945
2008: Santa Anita — 31,257; $49,473,304
2007: Monmouth Park – 27,803; $31,499,007
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