Breeders Cup 2020 Betting

The 2018 Breeders' Cup was staged at Churchill Downs Racecourse in Kentucky and ran from November 2-3, with the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic as the last race of the Championships on Saturday. The Breeders' Cup is the biggest US horse racing betting event of the year, and this year had brand new bets.

With $28 million in prize money, across 14 races, more than $120 million is wagered annually on Breeders' Cup betting, making it the one of the biggest betting events across the US. Top horse racing betting sites across the world also handle millions of dollars of bets on Breeders' Cup odds.

It is the international element of the Breeders Cup Championships that draws so much interest from bettors, with a series of global ‘Win And You’re In’ qualifying races, bringing champions from horse racing events in Europe, South America, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong and Japan.

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Breeders' Cup 2018 Betting Results

The 2018 Breeders' Cup betting schedule saved the best until last. For connections of winning horses, no Breeders Cup race is worth less than $1 million dollars, and the highlight of the Breeders Cup Championships, the Breeders Cup Classic, has a prize fund of $6 million.

Future Stars Friday Race Results - Friday, November 2

Winner	Race	Bets Available	Distance	Purse
Bulletin	Juvenile Turf Sprint	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 5, SH5	5.5 furlongs (T)	$1m
Newspaperofrecord	Juvenile Fillies Turf	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 4, SH5	1 mile (T)	$1m
Jaywalk	Juvenile Fillies	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, SPDD, Pick 4, SH5	1.5 miles	$2m
Line of Duty	Juvenile Turf	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, SPDD, SH5	1 mile (T)	$1m
Game Winner	Sentient Jet Juvenile	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, DD, SPDD, SH5	1.5 miles	$2m

Breeders' Cup Race Results - Saturday, November 3

Winner	Race	Bets Available	Distance	Purse
Shamrock Rose	Filly & Mare Sprint	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, SH5	7 furlongs	$1m
Stormy Liberal	Turf Sprint	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 4, SH5	5.5 furlongs (T)	$1m
City of Light	Dirt Mile	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, SH5	1 mile	$1m
Sistercharlie	Filly & Mare Turf	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 6, SH5	1 mile 3 furlongs (T)	$2m
Roy H	TwinSpires Sprint	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 5, SH5	6 furlongs	$2m
Expert Eye	Breeders' Cup Mile	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 4, SH5	1 mile (T)	$2m
Monomy Girl	Breeders' Cup Distaff	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, Pick 4, SH5	1 mile 1 furlong	$2m
Enable	Breeders' Cup Turf	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, P3, DD, SH5	1 mile 4 furlongs (T)	$4m
Accelerate	Breeders Cup Classic	WPS, EX, TRI, Super, DD, SH5	1 miles 2 furlongs	$6m

The 35th Breeders' Cup Championships will take place from November 1-2 at Santa Anita Racecourse in Arcadia, California. It will be the 10th time Santa Anita has hosted the Breeders' Cup, a feat no other racecourse has achieved, Churchill Downs sitting second with nine stagings.

How To Bet On The Breeders Cup

The Breeders' Cup is the climax of the US horse racing season, and for many the global championships of Flat horse racing. The glitz and glamour of the event, brings nearly 100,000 people to the Breeders' Cup courses, and millions more to the bookmakers.

Breeders Cup Betting Markets Explained

Aside from the Pick 6 bet, there are many popular Breeders Cup betting markets beyond the ‘win’, ‘place’, and ‘show’ standard horse racing wagers.

Exacta - Pick the first and second horse home in any race, in the correct order. A Trifecta bet is predicted the first three home, and a Superfecta bet predicts the first four to finish.
Quinella - This bet boxes an Exacta, meaning you still win as long as the two picks finish in the first two, regardless of their order. You can also box a Trifecta and Superfecta.
Daily Double - The simplest exotic Breeders Cup bet, select the winners of any two consecutive races. Pick 3 follows the same principles for three consecutive races, Pick 4 for four, and Pick 5 for five.

New Breeders' Cup 2018 Wagers

For 2018, there were a host of new wagers available to Breeders' Cup bettors, including Head2Head wagering, a late Pick 5 wager, and a Jackpot Super High 5. There were also bets linking Friday and Saturday races. Here's a guide to Breeders' Cup 2018 betting:

Head2Head - The Breeders' Cup allows players to bet on a match-race between two parties. There will be set variables for each Head2Head wager, which could be as simple as one horse versus another in a race, or it could be more complex like Europeans v Americans in a particular race.
Super Daily Double - SPDD bets are doubles placed on one race on Friday and one race on Saturday.
Late Pick 5 - Ordinary Pick 5s run from races 1-5 on the card, the late Pick 5 runs from races 5-9 on Friday with a $1 million guaranteed pool, and from races 7-11 on Saturday with a guaranteed pool of $2 million
Jackpot Super High 5 - To win this wager, pick the first five home in the race, in the correct order! You can also box the bet: which means the five horses you pick only have to make the first five, in any order, for the bet to come in.

Breeders Cup Pick 6 Betting

The most popular bet at the Breeders Cup is the Breeders Cup Pick 6. The Pick 6 is a bet that requires a player to pick 6 horses to win in 6 different Breeders' Cup races.

It is a pool bet that has yielded multiple $1 million payouts, a minimum bet of $2 producing a Pick 6 payout of $2.7 million back in 2003. It is the ultimate small stakes for massive wins bet at the Breeders Cup. In 2018, Saturday's Pick 6 races are 6-11 with a $1 million guaranteed pool.

How Does the Pick 6 Work?

The Breeders Cup Pick 6 runs from races 4-9 on Future Stars Friday, and from races 6-11 on Breeders Cup Classic Saturday. The minimum bet is $2, but punters can wager more on the Pick 6, and can also boost their chances of victory by picking more than one horse in each of the Pick 6 races.

The Breeders Cup Pick 6 is available to bet on at the track via the American PMU, but is also online via other betting pools like Ireland’s Totepool, and the online betting exchange Betfair. This is also true for the Pick 5s and Pick 4, the latter offering a $1.5 million guarantee on Friday, and $3 million on Saturday (races 8-11)

Top Breeders Cup Betting Tips

The Breeders Cup venue may change regularly, but the races remain the same, and the results have continuous trends than can be value to Breeders Cup betting strategy year after year.

The draw - In Breeders Cup history, 30+ winners have come from each of posts 1, 2, 4, and 5. The only posts producing less than 20 winners are 10, 12, 13, 14 - the latter pair rarely getting used.
Favourites - A total off 99 favourites have won in more than 318 Breeders Cup races. They have a 31% strike rate.
Top jockey - Mike Smith holds the record for Breeders Cup wins by a jockey, riding 22.
Top trainer - D. Wayne Lukas has saddled the most Breeders Cup winners, boasting 20.
Internationals - The field of non-US horses grows every year, and while overall they have a 9% strike rate, in recent times that has grown to 13%, and they perform best at Santa Anita - where the win rate is 14%. They took home a record six races from Santa Anita in 2009.