Future Stars Friday Posts Second-Highest Friday Handle Ever For Breeders' Cup

The Breeders' Cup statuette | Horsephotos

All-sources handle for the 10-race program on the first day of the 41st Breeders' Cup World Championships Nov. 1 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club was $63,679,944, the second-highest handle for a Breeders' Cup Friday and the fourth consecutive year the Friday handle has topped $60 million.

The Future Stars Friday card featured five Breeders' Cup races for 2-year-old horses, the seventh straight year the Breeders' Cup has carded all its juvenile races on the same day since the event expanded to its two-day format in 2007.

Friday's on-track attendance was 30,982 and on-track handle was $6,683,373.

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