# Breeders' Cup Juvenile

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually in late October or early November at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships. The current purse is US$2,000,000 making it the most valuable race for two-year-olds in North America. It is normally run at a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles.
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is typically the first time that the best colts from the various racing circuits across North America (in New York, Kentucky and California in particular) meet up with each other. The winner often earns the Eclipse Award for Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, and becomes one of the early favorites for the next year's Kentucky Derby.
In 2006, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) wrote in Part 2 of their special series titled Spiraling To The Breeders' Cup that "Arazi turned in what many still consider to be the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history."
Timber Country was the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner to win an American Triple Crown race when he went on to win the 1995 Preakness Stakes. The 2006 winner, Street Sense, became the first to capture the Kentucky Derby. In 2016, Nyquist won the Kentucky Derby as well.

## Automatic berths

Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup developed the Breeders' Cup Challenge, a series of "Win and You're In" races that allot automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the fourteen divisions has multiple qualifying races, which change somewhat from year to year. Note that one horse may win multiple challenge races, while other challenge winners will not be entered in the Breeders' Cup for a variety of reasons such as injury or travel considerations.
In the Juvenile division, the number of runners is limited to 14. The 2022 "Win and You're In" races were:
* the American Pharoah Stakes, a Grade 1 race run in October at Santa Anita Park in California
* the Champagne Stakes, a Grade 1 race run in October at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York
* the Breeders' Futurity, a Grade 1 race at Keeneland in Kentucky

## Records

Most wins by a jockey:
* 3 – Laffit Pincay Jr. (1985, 1986, 1988)
* 3 – Jerry Bailey (1996, 1998, 2000)
* 3 – Mike E. Smith (1995, 2002, 2021)
Most wins by a trainer:
* 6 - Bob Baffert (2002, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2021, 2024)
Most wins by an owner:
* 2 – Eugene V. Klein (1987, 1988)
* 2 – Overbrook Farm (with partners in 1994, 1996)
* 2 – Michael Tabor & Susan Magnier (2001, with partners in 2012)
* 2 – Gary & Mary West (2013, 2018)
* 2 – Godolphin (2009, 2020)
* 2 – Repole Stable (2022, 2023)

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time | Distance | Purse | Grade |
| 2024 | Citizen Bull | Martin Garcia | Bob Baffert | SF Racing, Starlight Racing et al | 1:43.07 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2023 | Fierceness | John R. Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stable | 1:41.90 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2022 | Forte | Irad Ortiz Jr. | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stable & St. Elias Stables | 1:43.06 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2021 | Corniche | Mike E. Smith | Bob Baffert | Speedway Stables LLC | 1:42.50 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2020 | Essential Quality | Luis Saez | Brad H. Cox | Godolphin Stables | 1:42.09 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2019 | Storm the Court | Flavien Prat | Peter Eurton | Exline-Border Racing LLC et al. | 1:44.93 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2018 | Game Winner | Joel Rosario | Bob Baffert | Gary and Mary West | 1:43.67 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2017 | Good Magic | José L. Ortiz | Chad C. Brown | e Five Racing & Stonestreet Stables | 1:43.34 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2016 | Classic Empire | Julien Leparoux | Mark E. Casse | John C. Oxley | 1:42.60 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2015 | Nyquist | Mario Gutierrez | Doug O'Neill | Reddam Racing | 1:43.79 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2014 | Texas Red | Kent Desormeaux | Keith Desormeaux | Erich Brehm, Wayne Detmar et al. | 1:41.91 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2013 | New Year's Day | Martin Garcia | Bob Baffert | Gary and Mary West | 1:43.52 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2012 | Shanghai Bobby | Rosie Napravnik | Todd A. Pletcher | Starlight Racing, John Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith | 1:44.58 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2011 | Hansen | Ramon Domínguez | Michael Maker | Kendall Hansen, MD & Sky Chai Racing | 1:44.44 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2010 | Uncle Mo | John Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stable | 1:42.60 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2009 | Vale of York (IRE) | Ahmed Ajtebi | Saeed bin Suroor | Godolphin | 1:43.48 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2008 | Midshipman | Garrett Gomez | Bob Baffert | Darley Stable | 1:40.94 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2007 | War Pass | Cornelio Velásquez | Nick Zito | Robert V. LaPenta | 1:42.76 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2006 | Street Sense | Calvin Borel | Carl Nafzger | James B. Tafel | 1:42.59 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $2,000,000 | I |
| 2005 | Stevie Wonderboy | Garrett Gomez | Doug O'Neill | Merv Griffin Ranch Company | 1:41.64 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,500,000 | I |
| 2004 | Wilko | Frankie Dettori | Jeremy Noseda | J. Paul Reddam | 1:42.09 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,500,000 | I |
| 2003 | Action This Day | David R. Flores | Richard Mandella | B. Wayne Hughes | 1:43.62 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,500,000 | I |
| 2002 | Vindication | Mike E. Smith | Bob Baffert | Padua Stables | 1:49.61 | 1+1⁄8 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 2001 | Johannesburg | Michael Kinane | Aidan O'Brien | Michael Tabor & Susan Magnier | 1:42.27 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 2000 | Macho Uno | Jerry Bailey | Joseph Orseno | Stronach Stables | 1:42.05 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1999 | Anees | Gary Stevens | Alex Hassinger Jr. | The Thoroughbred Corp. | 1:42.29 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1998 | Answer Lively | Jerry Bailey | Bobby C. Barnett | John A. Franks | 1:44.00 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1997 | Favorite Trick | Pat Day | Patrick B. Byrne | Joseph LaCombe Stable | 1:41.47 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1996 | Boston Harbor | Jerry Bailey | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm | 1:43.40 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1995 | Unbridled's Song | Mike E. Smith | James T. Ryerson | Paraneck Stable | 1:41.60 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1994 | Timber Country | Pat Day | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm, Gainsway Farm & Robert B. Lewis | 1:44.55 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1993 | Brocco | Gary Stevens | Randy Winick | Albert R. Broccoli | 1:42.99 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1992 | Gilded Time | Chris McCarron | Darrell Vienna | David Milch, Jack Silverman & Mark Silverman | 1:43.43 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1991 | Arazi | Pat Valenzuela | François Boutin | Allen E. Paulson | 1:44.78 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1990 | Fly So Free | José A. Santos | Scotty Schulhofer | Tommy Valando | 1:43.40 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1989 | Rhythm | Craig Perret | Claude R. McGaughey III | Ogden Mills Phipps | 1:43.60 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1988 | Is It True | Laffit Pincay Jr. | D. Wayne Lukas | Eugene V. Klein | 1:46.60 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1987 | Success Express | José A. Santos | D. Wayne Lukas | Eugene V. Klein | 1:35.20 | 1 mile | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1986 | Capote | Laffit Pincay Jr. | D. Wayne Lukas | Barry A. Beal, Lloyd R. French Jr. & Eugene V. Klein | 1:43.80 | 1+1⁄16 miles | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1985 | Tasso | Laffit Pincay Jr. | Neil Drysdale | Gerald Robins | 1:36.20 | 1 mile | $1,000,000 | I |
| 1984 | Chief's Crown | Don MacBeth | Roger Laurin | Star Crown Stable (Andrew Rosen, et al.) | 1:36.20 | 1 mile | $1,000,000 | I |