City of Troy, Fierceness, Forever Young Lead 2024 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic Pre-Entries

DEL MAR — Led by top U.S. contender Fierceness, Ireland-based City of Troy, and Japan’s Forever Young (JPN) in the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), Rebel’s Romance (IRE) in the $5 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), and Idiomatic in the $2 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1), 212 of the best Thoroughbreds from around the globe have been pre-entered for the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. 

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The 41^st running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious two-day global event with purses and awards totaling more than $34 million, will be held Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif. for a third time after coming to the seaside oval in 2017 and 2021. “Future Stars Friday” features five World Championships races exclusively for 2-year-olds, while a 12-race card featuring nine Breeders’ Cup Championship races makes up the “Championships Saturday” program.  

Horses from a record five continents – Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America – have targeted this year’s event as 80 international contenders have been pre-entered. The previous record was 60, set in 2023. 

CHAMPION FIERCENESS LEADS LONGINES BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC 

Sixteen horses have been pre-entered in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic, run on the main track at 1 1/4 miles, led by Repole Stable’s homebred Fierceness. A son of 2018 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner City of Light, Fierceness will take on older horses for the first time off back-to-back victories in the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) and the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) in July. The Todd Pletcher trainee upset the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to cap his 2023 season and was named champion 2-year-old male last year on the merits of that win. He held the No. 1 place in the 2024 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings for the final five weeks of the 11-week poll. 

City of Troy, the highest-rated turf horse in the world after his remarkable win in the Aug. 21 Juddmonte International Stakes (G1), looks to give trainer Aidan O’Brien an elusive Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic score as the trainer’s 18th starter in the marquee event. Bred in Kentucky but campaigned exclusively in Europe to date by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith, the son of 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify has won three in a row in Great Britain, starting with the June 1 Epsom Derby (G1) and adding the Coral Eclipse Stakes (G1) in July before his Juddmonte International tour de force.   

Susumu Fujita’s Forever Young prepped for a return to the United States with an easy win in the Oct. 2 Japan Cup Dirt Classic at Ohi and has his connections dreaming of revenge after a narrow loss in the Kentucky Derby (G1) one start prior. The Real Steel (JPN) colt punched his ticket to the United States earlier this season with back-to-back wins in the Saudi Derby (G3) and UAE Derby (G2) and finished a narrow third behind fellow Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic contender Sierra Leone in the May 4 Run for the Roses. 

The pre-entries for the Classic are completed by Arthur’s Ride, Derma Sotogake (JPN), Highland Falls, Mixto, Newgate, Next, Senor Buscador, Sierra Leone, Skippylongstocking, Tapit Trice,and Ushba Tesoro (JPN). Also-Eligible are Pyrenees and Rattle N Roll.  

Next has second preference in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf while Senor Buscador, Skippylongstocking, and Derma Sotogake (JPN) have second preference in the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1).                   

A total of 16 horses that have won the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic have gone on to be named Horse of the Year.  

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