Breeders Cup Classic Betting Tips

The Breeders’ Cup Classic is the undisputed highlight of the annual Breeders’ Cup meeting. With qualification open to 3-year-old and above thoroughbreds, the race has a tendency to attract a selection of the finest thoroughbreds in training from around the world.

The quality of the racehorses in the field, many of whom have never raced against each other, combined with the intense competition amongst trainers for the multi-million dollar prize fund, make this races one of the hardest group one races for stayers to call.

While the Breeders’ Cup Classic has produced several long-shot winners, a number of trends have emerged in the course of the short history of this race to assist punters in narrowing down prospective race winners:

Breeders’ Cup Classic Tips

The vast majority of Breeders’ Cup Classic winners range between 3 and 4 years of age. 5-year-olds win around 1 in 5 Breeders’ Cup Classic races, and generally enter the race at long odds.
It is the norm rather than the exception for the Breeders’ Cup Classic to produce an upset. Antepost odds therefore give little real indication of a horse’s prospects in this race, with the starting price of winners varying from as low as 3-1 to as high as 133-1.
The open age group qualification for the Breeders’ Cup Classic means that the defending champion has the option to take part in the race, and can attract strong support in the betting markets as a result. It is therefore worth keeping in mind that a racehorse has only defended the Breeders’ Cup Classic title once in the history of the race.
Racehorses will enter the Breeders’ Cup Classic having qualified in some of the top group one races on the planet. This makes it difficult to chart which races have produced Breeders’ Cup winners, as horses can take wildly divergent routes to this race.
Winners of European group 1 races will often receive good backing in the Breeders’ Cup betting markets. It is therefore worth noting that British, Irish and European champion thoroughbreds have traditionally not responded well to the end-of-season travel or the dirt course used to host the race, and have a strike rate of less than 10% in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
While some top rated American thoroughbred racehorses have proved their class by winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic, the race has the unusual tendency to produce winners who have previously excelled mostly in lower-grade handicap races.

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