Belmont Park Hosts The 2005 Breeders' Cup Saturday, October 29, 2005
The Breeders' Cup Championship culminates the racing season and crowns the fleetest sprinters, the most
promising two-year-olds, the best turf horses. The right to be called the best of the best belongs,
many would argue, to the winner of the day's final and richest race: the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic.
According to June 2005 research done by the Daily Racing Form and Newsday, Belmont has the largest dirt
racecourse of any Thoroughbred track in the North America and Belmont Park also has the largest grandstand
in the sport.
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Belmont Park Race Track is a horse racing facility located just outside New York City, in the adjacent
Nassau County suburb of Elmont, Long Island. It is world-famous as the home of the Belmont Stakes, the
third leg of the Triple Crown. It first opened May 4, 1905.
The 430 acre (1.7 km²) racing, training and barn complex is located on the western edge of the Nassau County
region known as the Hempstead Plains. Just a few miles east on the same plains, the first racing meet in
North America was held in 1665, supervised by colonial governor Richard Nicolls.
The dirt racecourse is known officially as the Main Track and nicknamed Big Sandy by racing followers. It
has a circumference of 11½ miles (2,414 m); immediately inside of this is the Widener Turf Course
(named after the Widener family that has a long and prestigious history in American horse racing) spanning
1 5/16 miles plus 27 feet (2,120 m), which in turn rings an Inner Turf Course 1 3/16 miles plus 103 feet
(1,942 m) round. On the Main Track, it is 1,097 feet (334 m) from the top of the stretch to the finish line,
and the segment between the wire and the start of the first (clubhouse) turn covers 843 feet (257 m)
(this latter segment is shorter by approximately 165 feet (50 m) on both of the turf courses, in order to
accommodate the two chutes that exist on the Widener Turf Course, from which turf races of one mile (1,609 m)
and 1 1/16 miles (1,710 m) are started; an additional chute exists for 1 1/16 mile (1,710 m) races on the
inner turf course).
Post Time for First Race: 12:05 pm ET
Post Time for First Breeders' Cup Race: 1:20 pm ET
| Here is a list of the Breeders' Cup most celebrated champions: |
| Year Winner Jockey Trainer Time |
| 2004 Ghostzapper Javier Castellano Bobby Frankel 1:59.02 |
| 2003 Pleasantly Perfect Alex Solis Richard Mandella 1:59.88 |
2002 Volponi Jos Santos P.Johnson 2:01.39 |
| 2001 Tiznow Chris McCarron Jay Robbins 2:00.62 |
2000 Tiznow Chris McCarron Jay Robbins 2:00.75 |
| 1999 Cat Thief Pat Day D. Wayne Lukas 1:59.52 |
1998 Awesome Again Pat Day Pat Byrne 2:02.16 |
1997 Skip Away Mike Smith Sonny Hine 1:59.16 |
1996 Alphabet Soup Chris McCarron D.Hofmans 2:01.00 |
1995 Cigar Jerry Bailey Bill Mott 1:59.58 |
1994 Concern Jerry Bailey R.Small 2:02.41 |
1993 Arcangues Jerry Bailey A.Fabre 2:00.83 |
1992 A.P. Indy Eddie Delahoussaye Neil Drysdale 2:00.20 |
1991 Black Tie Affair Jerry Bailey E.Poulos 2:02.95 |
1990 Unbridled Pat Day Carl Nafzger 2:02.20 |
1989 Sunday Silence Chris McCarron Charlie Whittingham 2:00.20 |
| 1988 Alysheba Chris McCarron Jack Van Berg 2:04.80 |
1987 Ferdinand Bill Shoemaker Charlie Whittingham 2:01.40 |
1986 Skywalker Laffit Pincay Jr. M.Whittingham 2:00.40 |
1985 Proud Truth Jorge Velasquez John Veitch 2:00.80 |
1984 Wild Again Pat Day V.Timphony 2:03.40 |
Throughout the years, the Breeders' Cup has seen many new thoroughbred champions race to the finish.
It truly is horse racing's most successful showpiece.
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