Numbers have been released for the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships, with total all-sources, global common-pool handle for the two-day event at $179,218,631, marking a 1.7% bettering of the 2023 total handle. The 41st running of the Breeders' Cup was held Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar, while the 2023 event was held at Santa Anita.
The 2024 handle of $179,218,631 marked the third-highest in Breeders' Cup history since the event went to two days in 2007. Only the 2022 event at Keeneland (with $189,060,373 in handle) and the 2021 event at Del Mar (with $182,908,409) in handle have topped it.
Total common-pool handle on Saturday's 12-race Breeders' Cup card was $115,538,687, with Friday's 10-race card ringing in at $63,679,944. On-track handle for both days was $18,450,724.
Attendance is capped at Del Mar with Saturday's attendance ringing in at 36,436 and the total two-day attendance at 67,418. The Breeders' Cup will return to Del Mar in 2025. The last time it was held back to back at the same track was in 2012-14, when Santa Anita hosted for three years in a row.
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