The Breeders’ Cup Challenge, a series of automatic qualifying races for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, will be expanded from 24 to a minimum of 49 races at 12 of North America’s premier racing venues in 2008, Breeders’ Cup announced today.

The expanded Breeders’ Cup Challenge will now include 6 races at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Other new markets and tracks for the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge include Emerald Downs in Auburn, Washington; Suffolk Downs in Boston; Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware; Calder Race Course near Miami; and Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey.

The 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races will begin on July 5 with races from Monmouth Park, host of last year’s Breeders’ Cup.

Curlin, 2007 Preakness Stakes winner, dominated Monmouth Park Saturday, October 27th to win the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

2007 Breeders’ Cup World Championship Race Results

OCEANPORT, NEW JERSEY (TICKER) — Curlin answered any questions of who should be Horse of the Year.

Putting an exclamation point on a sensational year, Curlin pulled away to win Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Monmouth Park.

In a race billed as the “War at the Shore,” Curlin won the battle, roaring past Hard Spun and Lawyer Ron around the final turn en route to reaching the the winner’s circle by 4 1/2 lengths in North America’s richest race.

Thoroughbred racing biggest day is almost around the corner and New Jersey is ready to take part in the history as the 2007 Breeders’ Cup World Championship races jump-starts on October 26 and 27.
The 137-year old Monmouth Park racetrack received a $30 Million make-over in last year. The re-design of the grass course for the [...]

Bodog Racebook has released the latest odds for the 2007 Breeders’ Cup World Championships horse races on October 26-27 at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. This year’s Breeders’ Cup has been expanded to two days and includes three new races, the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint and Breeders’ Cup [...]

OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — The order of races and post times for the $23 million, 11-race Breeders’ Cup at Monmouth Park on Oct. 26-27 was announced Tuesday.
The three new Breeders’ Cup races will be run Oct. 26, the Filly & Mare Sprint, the Juvenile Turf and the Dirt Mile, each with a $1 million purse. [...]

The Breeders’ Cup month will begin on Friday, Sept. 28, with a kickoff cocktail party at the Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club in Oceanport, followed the next day, September 29th with a sailing regatta and ending Saturday, October 20th with a 5K run.
This year the Breeders’ Cup has been expanded to two days and includes [...]

Lawyer Ron will look to add a fifth graded stakes victory to his resume when he takes on four others in the $150,000 Salvator Mile Handicap (gr. III) at Monmouth Park June 23.
The 4-year-old Langfuhr colt, owned by Hines Racing and trained by Todd Pletcher, has been assigned highweight of 121 pounds in what will [...]