Breeders' Cup Record Friday Handle

Friday, November 1, 2019 | 8:31 pm

Updated: November 1, 2019 at 9:19 pm

November 1, 2019: British Idiom, ridden by Javier Castellano, wins the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Breeders' Cup World Championship Friday at Santa Anita Park on November 1, 2019: in Arcadia, California. /c30a5e//Eclipse Sportswire/CSM

The all-sources handle for Friday's 10-race program at Santa Anita–the first day of the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships–was $56,517,228, a record for Breeders' Cup Friday and a 5.4% increase over last year's 10-race Breeders' Cup Future Stars Friday card at Churchill Downs.

The Future Stars Friday card featured five Breeders' Cup races for 2-year-olds, the second consecutive year of grouping all of the juvenile races on the same day since the event expanded to its current two-day format in 2007.

Friday's attendance was 41,243 and Friday's on-track handle for the 10-race card was $6,340,351.