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Good evening (if you’re on GMT or similar) from Santa Anita racecourse in Arcadia in southern California, and good afternoon if you’re lucky enough to be Stateside for the Breeders’ Cup 2023 – the nearest thing that racing has to a world championship, with horses from the US, Britain, Ireland, France and Japan going to post for 14 races with prize funds that range from $1m (£807k) to $6m (£4.8m).
The “Future Stars Friday” card includes five Breeders’ Cup races, all of which, as the name suggests, are for juveniles. European stables are strongly represented in the three races on turf – the Juvenile Sprint, the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf and the Juvenile Turf – while the main event for US fans is the Juvenile on dirt, offering possible clues to the early favourites for next year’s Kentucky Derby.
