The 2022 Breeders’ Cup will be held at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky. The two-day event will be held Nov. 4 and 5.
Breeders Cup 2022 : Prize money | Tv schedule
The 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships is the 39th edition of the premier event of the North American Thoroughbred horse racing year.
Race information | |
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Distance | See individual races |
Surface | Turf, Dirt |
Purse | Varies by Race; from $1 million to $6 million |
And the 14 races, all of which are Grade I, take place on November 4 and 5 at Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Breeders’ Cup is generally regarded as the end of the North American racing season, although a few Grade I events take place in later November and December.
The event typically determines champions in many of the Eclipse Award divisions.
Breeders Cup 2022 prize money
This year’s Breeders’ Cup has a $31 million purse for the races held on Friday and Saturday.
Winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday evening will take home the biggest grand Prize of $6 million.
It will be distributed through the allocation process described for each of the 12 race disciplines –
Race | Prize Money |
Juvenile Turf Sprint | $1 million |
Juvenile Fillies | $2 million |
Juvenile Fillies Turf | $1 million |
Juvenile | $2 million |
Juvenile Turf | $1 million |
Filly & Mare Sprint | $1 million |
Turf Sprint | $1 million |
Dirt Mile | $2 million |
Filly & Mare Turf | $2 million |
Sprint | $2 million |
Mile | $2 million |
Distaff | $2 million |
Turf | $4 million |
Classic | $6 million |
Five races on Friday and nine races on Saturday give out prize money. All 14 races offer at least $1 million in prize money.
Tv Schedule
Like every year, the 2022 Breeders’ Cup will be a 2-day event. It will initiate on Friday, November 4, 2022, and run till Saturday, November 5, 2022. The inaugural race of the event will begin at 03:00 p.m. ET.
Date | Race | Time (ET) |
November 5, 2022 | Juvenile Turf Sprint | 03:00 p.m. |
Juvenile Fillies | 03:40 p.m. | |
Juvenile Fillies Turf | 04:20 p.m. | |
Juvenile | 05:00 p.m. | |
Juvenile Turf | 05:40 p.m. | |
November 6, 2022 | Filly & Mare Sprint | 11:50 a.m. |
Turf Sprint | 12:29 p.m. | |
Dirt Mile | 01:10 p.m. | |
Filly & Mare Turf | 01:50 p.m. | |
Sprint | 02:30 p.m. | |
Mile | 03:10 p.m. | |
Distaff | 03:55 p.m. | |
Turf | 04:40 p.m. | |
Classic | 05:40 p.m. |
The following channels are the official TV broadcast distributors of the upcoming premier thoroughbred horse racing event in their territory –
Country | TV Channel |
United States | NBC |
NBCSN | |
TVG | |
United Kingdom | ITV (Turf & Classic) |
ITV4 (Other races except Filly & Mare Sprint) |
In the United States, the races will be telecast on Friday and early Saturday by USA Network and FanDuel TV, with NBC covering the last three races on Saturday.
In the United Kingdom, ITV will be broadcasting all the races live, with day 1 on ITV3 and day 2 on ITV4.