Defending Champion Idiomatic, Thorpedo Anna Headline Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff 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. 

IDIOMATIC AND THORPEDO ANNA FACE OFF IN LONGINES BREEDERS’ CUP DISTAFF 
 
Soaring in off a dominant 6 1/2-length victory in the Oct. 6 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland, 2023 Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) winner Idiomatic faces 3-year-old Thorpedo Anna in the 2024 renewal of the 1 1/8-mile test.          

Bred and raced by Juddmonte, 5-year-old Idiomatic followed the same path to success for trainer Brad Cox last year, earning an automatic berth into the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff in the Spinster Stakes via the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series before finding the Breeders’ Cup winner’s circle. The daughter of 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin is a five-time Grade 1 winner. 

Thorpedo Anna, campaigned by Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, breeder Judy B. Hicks, and Magdalena Racing, will make her way to the World Championships for the first time. Her fantastic sophomore season for trainer Kenny McPeek has included victories in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) in May, the Acorn Stakes (G1) in June, and the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) in July, a narrow runner-up finish to Fierceness in the Travers Stakes in August, and a return to victory in the Sept. 21 Cotillion Stakes (G1), her most recent start.   

The 12 pre-entries for the Distaff are completed by Awesome Result, Batucada, Candied, Che Evasora (ARG), Honor D Lady, Miss New York, Musical Mischief, Raging Sea, Sugar Fish, and Alice Verite (JPN). Alice Verite (JPN) has first preference in the Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

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