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The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is a 7-furlong (1408 m) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred fillies and mares three years old and up. As its name implies, it is a part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the ''de facto'' year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, generally held in the United States (also held one time in Canada). The race is run on a dirt course (either natural dirt or a synthetic surface such as Polytrack). The race was run for the first time in 2007 during the first day of the expanded Breeders' Cup at that year's host track, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Beginning in 2009, this race will be a Grade I event.〔(Six New Grade I Races for 2009 - bloodhorse.com )〕 The 2007 race was held at a distance of 6 furlongs (1207 m) instead of the normal distance of 7 furlongs because of the configuration of the dirt track at Monmouth Park. == Automatic Berths == Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup developed "The Breeders' Cup Challenge," a series of races in each division that allotted automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the fourteen divisions has between three and ten of these, "Win and You're In," qualifying races. In the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Division runners are limited to 14 and there are three automatic berths. The "Win and You're In" races are: # the A Gleam Handicap, a Grade 2 race at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Hollywood, California;〔(Breeders Cup Challenge )〕 # the Ballerina Stakes, a Grade 1 race at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga, New York〔 and # the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes, a Grade 2 race at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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