breeders cup 2024
Highclere Thoroughbred Racing owners head out to America to watch Soprano and Believing in the Breeders Cup.
The Breeders’ Cup was conceived 40 years ago to create a year-end championship for horse racing and celebrate the best of the sport. This year marked the 40th anniversary of the Breeders’ Cup which was first run at Hollywood Park in 1984, to this year in Del Mar ‘where the surf meets the turf’.
Highclere Thoroughbred Racing have sent some brilliant horses over the years to compete on this world stage with some notable success. Petrushka, the European Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, finished 4th in the Breeders’ Cup Fillies & Mares Turf in 2000; Telescope was 4th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf in 2014; and our brilliant 1,000 Guineas winner Cachet finished 4th in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf in 2021.
This year we were double handed with two superb fillies, Soprano and Believing, both trained by George Boughey. Soprano has excelled this year winning at Royal Ascot in June, with her stablemate Believing finishing placed in a staggering 6 Group 1 races. They weren’t quite able to make history for Highclere at this year’s Breeders Cup but their loyal owners have been taken on a fantastic journey round the world, enjoying the finest American hospitality at one of the world’s greatest weekends of racing.
