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2023 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile

The 2023 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile will be held at Santa Anita Park on Saturday, November 4th.

Official Entries & Morning Line Odds

Race 3, Post Time 2:30 pm (ET)

The BIG ASS FANS BREEDERS' CUP DIRT MILE (GI) is a one mile race for 3-year-olds and up. The race carries a guaranteed purse of $1 million, including travel awards. Official entries and morning line odds will be available here once announced.

**denotes Breeders' Cup Challenge Winner

*denotes qualification based on points

Information and winners of the “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series races for the 2023 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile:

Recent Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile News

2023 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Results and Payouts

Below are the final results and payouts for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile:

Exotic Payouts:

• $1.00 Exacta (3-9) Paid: $7.20
• $0.50 Trifecta (3-9-6) Paid: $16.85
• $0.10 Superfecta (3-9-6-5) Paid: $7.84

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The BC Dirt Mile History

The Dirt Mile started in 2007 with the addition of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series offering more races during the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Goldencents is the only two-time winner of the Dirt Mile (2013, 2014). The 1-mile race record was set by Albertus Maximus in 2008 in a time of 1:33.41.

In the first 10 runnings of the Dirt Mile, the post-time race favorite won just two times, and both at less than 4-5 odds: Goldencents in 2014 at Santa Anita and Liam’s Map in 2015 at Keeneland. The longest shot to win the race is Dakota Phone in 2010 when he pulled of the upset at 37-1 odds at Churchill Downs.

In a race with very fast fractions, Dakota Phone closed from the very back of the pack in a field of 12 and caught the leader in the deep stretch to win by a head for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer with top jockey Joel Rosario aboard.   

Goldencents, ridden by Rafael Bajarano, won both his Dirt Miles wire-to-wire by more than a length for trainer Leandro Mora and Doug O'Neal. Goldencents retired following his 2014 victory, winning a total of 7 races and 7 runner-up finishes in 18 career starts with earnings of more than $3 million. 

The 2016 winner was impressive as Tamarkuz settled off the pace and jockey Mike Smith made a bold move along the far turn. As they turned for home, Tamarkuz caught the favorite Dortmund and the future dominant colt Gun Runner, passing them with a furlong to run and drawing clear to finish 3 1/2 lengths in front of Gun Runner. 

Tamarkuz was retired after the race to stand at Shadwell Stud near Lexington, KY. He finished his racing career with 8 wins in 20 starts, and the Breeders’ Cup 1st place prize of $920,000 doubled his career earnings to $1.84 million. 

Tamarkuz owns the biggest upset in Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile history with his incredible victory in 2016. While his 11/1 odds aren’t considered all that cavernous, he bested 6/5 favorite Dortmund, 3/1 second choice Runhappy and 9/2 third choice Gun Runner. At six-years-old, Tamarkuz was also the oldest horse to ever win the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, He retired following his 2016 win to Shadwell Stud.

The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile has just three prep races which offer automatic berths. These are the Metropolitan Handicap, which is also known as “The Met Mile”, the Pat O’Brien Stakes, and the Ack Ack Stakes. Goldencents won both the 2014 Pat O’Brien and the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. 2023 Winner Cody's Wish became the first winner of the Met Mile to go on to with the Dirt Mile that same year.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Historical Records:

Corinthian was the first winner of the race in 2007 and also ran the slowest recorded time ever, with a one-mile pace of 1:39.06. Albertus Maximus set the speed record at Santa Anita with a time of 1:33.41.

Goldencents and Cody's Wish are the most prolific winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, and is also the only horses to have won the event twice. After finishing 17th in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and 5th in the Preakness Stakes, he would go on to win the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile as a 4/1 shot. He would repeat the feat the following season in 2014 before retiring. 

Cody's Wish battled for his victory in 2022, rallying in the final turn and edging multiple Grade I race winner Cyberknife by a head. In 2023, as part of an already impressive five-year-old season, found himself breaking toward the back of the pack before gaining steam and dueling 2023 Preakness Stakes winner National Treasure in the final stretch to win by a nose. Cody's Wish was named for Cody Dorman, a young Kentucky native born with Wolf-Hischhorn syndrome. Cody connected with the horse during a visit to Godolphin's Gainsborough Farm organized by the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2018. Cody was present for both of the wins, but sadly passed away at the age of 17 just one day after his repeat victory. 

Jockey Rafael Bjearano was aboard Goldencents for his two victories and shares the record for the winningest jockey with Javier Castellano, Irad Ortiz Jr., Joel Rosario and finally Junior Alvarado, who piloted Cody's wish to his back-to-back victories. Trainers Jerry Hollendorfer, Todd A. Pletcher and William I. Mott share the record for most wins by a trainer with two each.