Breeders Cup Post Position Draw 2018

Breeders' Cup Draw 2018: Post Positions Draw Start Time and Lineup Info

October 29, 2018

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Horse racing does not get better than the Breeders' Cup.

This year's event takes place at the historic Churchill Downs inLouisville, Kentucky, the home of theKentucky Derby.

A spectacular two-day festival of the highest quality racing on offer, there will be five races on Friday, November 2, and nine on Saturday, November 3.

The action will culminate with theBreeders' Cup Classic at 5:44 p.m. ET on Saturday, with the in-formAccelerate well backed to prevail.

Here is the schedule for the weekend:

Friday's races

Juvenile Turf Sprint, 3:21 p.m. ET

Juvenile Fillies Turf, 4 p.m. ET

Juvenile Fillies, 4:40 p.m. ET

Juvenile Turf, 5:22 p.m. ET

Juvenile, 6:05 p.m. ET

Saturday's races

Filly & Mare Sprint, noon ET

Turf Sprint, 12:38 p.m. ET

Dirt Mile, 1:16 p.m. ET

Filly & Mare Turf, 2:04 p.m. ET

Sprint, 2:46 p.m. ET

Mile, 3:36 p.m. ET

Distaff, 4:16 p.m. ET

Turf, 4:56 p.m. ET

Classic, 5:44 p.m. ET

The post positions for all 14 races will be drawn on Monday, beginning at 4 p.m. ET.

The event will be streamed on theBreeders' Cup website.

Accelerate heads the field going into theBreeders' Cup Classic due to a recent run ofthree consecutive Grade 1 wins.

Two of them came at Santa Anita Park and the other atDel Mar racetrack, and theJohn W. Sadler trainee will be eager to finish the year in style at Churchill Downs.

But there will be plenty of competition in the blue riband event.

Thepurse of $6 million is a substantial incentive, andAccelerate is going to have to beat some of the best horses around over the 10-furlong run.

McKinzie,Catholic Boy and West Coast are also well fancied:

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Odds to win the Breeders Cup Classic (@betonline_ag): Accelerate +350 McKinzie +500 Catholic Boy +700 West Coast +700 Roaring Lion +1000 Mendelssohn +1200 Mind Your Biscuits +1200 Yoshida +1200 Thunder Snow +1400 City of Light +2000 Discreet Lover +3300 Pavel +4000 Axelrod +5000

The latter, trained by Bob Baffert, has experience in the Classic having finished third last year.

Meanwhile,McKinzie has four wins from five career starts, the most recent coming at the Pennsylvania Derby in September.

Aidan O'Brien's Mendelssohn could also be a contender along with Roaring Lion, who has enjoyed recent success at Ascot,Leopardstown and York.