2026 Breeders' Cup World Championships

Breeders' Cup World Championships

2026 at Keeneland

9 days until the 2026 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland, Lexington, Kentucky, on October 30 and 31, 2026.

Fourteen championship races over two days at Keeneland, Lexington, Kentucky. Nothing on this page predicts the 2026 running. Each race is shown with its last recorded running, because that is the part anybody has written down.

Races: 14
Runnings recorded: 422
Winners linked to a record here: 314
Winners left unlinked: 108

Results are the winners tables from each race's English Wikipedia article, republished under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution on every race below. A winner links to a horse in this archive only when the name matches exactly one record and that record's foaling year agrees with the horse's age in the race. 103 winners have no record here at all, 4 share a name with another horse, and 1 contradicted its record; all of them are printed as names without links rather than pointed at a guess.

Future Stars Friday, October 30

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint

Turf · first run 2018 · 8 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Cy Fair
Trainer: George Weaver
Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.
Time: 56.20
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf

Turf · first run 2008 · 18 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Balantina (IRE)
Trainer: Donnacha O'Brien
Jockey: Oisin Murphy
Time: 1:35.07
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies

Dirt · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Super Corredora
Trainer: John W. Sadler
Jockey: Hector Berrios
Time: 1:43.71
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf

Turf · first run 2007 · 19 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Gstaad (GB)
Trainer: Aiden O’Brien
Jockey: Christophe Soumillon
Time: 1:34.93
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Dirt · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Ted Noffey
Trainer: Todd A. Pletcher
Jockey: John R. Velazquez
Time: 1:42.25
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Juvenile (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Championship Saturday, October 31

Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint

Dirt · first run 2007 · 19 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Splendora
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Flavien Prat
Time: 1:21.79
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint

Turf · first run 2008 · 18 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Shisospicy
Trainer: Jose Francisco D'Angelo
Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.
Time: 0:55.24
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

Dirt · first run 2007 · 19 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Nysos
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Flavien Prat
Time: 1:34.71
Purse then: $1 million

History: Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf

Turf · first run 1999 · 27 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Gezora (FR)
Trainer: Francis - Henri Graffard
Jockey: Mickael Barzalona
Time: 2:12.54
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Sprint

Dirt · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Bentornato
Trainer: Jose Francisco D'Angelo
Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.
Time: 1:08.20
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Sprint (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Mile

Turf · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Notable Speech
Trainer: Charlie Appleby
Jockey: William Buick
Time: 1:33.66
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Mile (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Distaff

Dirt · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Scylla
Trainer: William I. Mott
Jockey: Junior Alvarado
Time: 1:48.07
Purse then: $2 million

History: Breeders' Cup Distaff (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Turf

Turf · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Ethical Diamond (IRE)
Trainer: Willie Mullins
Jockey: Dylan Browne McMonagle
Time: 2:25.45
Purse then: $5 million

History: Breeders' Cup Turf (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Breeders' Cup Classic

Dirt · first run 1984 · 42 runnings recorded

Last run: 2025 at Del Mar
Won by: Forever Young (JPN)
Trainer: Yoshito Yahagi
Jockey: Ryusei Sakai
Time: 2:00.19
Purse then: $7 million

History: Breeders' Cup Classic (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Multiple winners held in this archive

Horses with more than one Breeders' Cup win that this archive also holds a record for. It is a statement about what EquinAtlas has, not an all-time ranking: a winner whose name could not be attributed counts towards nothing here.

Beholder3 wins2012 Juvenile Fillies · 2013 Distaff · 2016 Distaff
Goldikova3 wins2008 Mile · 2009 Mile · 2010 Mile
Bayakoa2 wins1989 Distaff · 1990 Distaff
Cody's Wish2 wins2022 Dirt Mile · 2023 Dirt Mile
Conduit2 wins2008 Turf · 2009 Turf
Da Hoss2 wins1996 Mile · 1998 Mile
Goldencents2 wins2013 Dirt Mile · 2014 Dirt Mile
Groupie Doll2 wins2012 Filly & Mare Sprint · 2013 Filly & Mare Sprint
High Chaparral2 wins2002 Turf · 2003 Turf
Knicks Go2 wins2020 Dirt Mile · 2021 Classic
Lure2 wins1992 Mile · 1993 Mile
Midnight Lute2 wins2007 Sprint · 2008 Sprint

Most recorded wins

Counted across every running in the tables above, whether or not the winner has a record in this archive.

Trainers

Aidan O'Brien19
Bob Baffert19
Chad C. Brown19
D. Wayne Lukas19
Todd A. Pletcher16
William I. Mott15
Charlie Appleby12
Brad H. Cox11
Richard Mandella7
Neil Drysdale6

Jockeys

Irad Ortiz Jr.22
Mike E. Smith20
Joel Rosario16
Ryan Moore16
Frankie Dettori15
Jerry Bailey15
John R. Velazquez15
Javier Castellano12
Pat Day12
Gary Stevens11

Where it has been run

The championship moves. Only the years the cited source states are listed, which is why this table is short rather than running back to 1984.

2026Keenelandscheduled
2025Del Mar
2024Del Mar
2023Santa Anita Park
2022Keeneland
2021Del Mar
2020Keeneland

Sources

Breeders' Cup: Breeders' Cup | Oct. 30-31, 2026The 2026 championship dates, as published on the event's own front page. Checked 2026-09-20.
Wikipedia: Breeders' CupHost site by year, founding history, and the current race list with purses. Checked 2026-09-20. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.