- Updates from Keeneland with feature race at 9.40pm (GMT)
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Hello, good afternoon and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the main card at the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Keeneland in Kentucky. The five races for juveniles on Future Champions Friday provided their usual mixture of drama, excitement, close finishes and upsets, and now it’s the turn of the actual, here-and-now champions to strut their stuff across the course of nine Grade One races, culminating in Flightline’s attempt to achieve equine immortality in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at 9.40pm UK time.
Along the way, more than $20m [£18.4m] in prize money is up for grabs, but it is the glory and the chance to call your horse a Breeders’ Cup winner that matters above all, perhaps more so than ever at Keeneland, which is the rough equivalent of Newmarket in terms of its central position in America’s breeding industry in particular.
