Breeders' Cup Limited has announced its broadcast coverage schedule for the 40th Breeders' Cup World Championships on Nov. 3-4 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. The two-day championship event will be shown live across NBC, Peacock, USA Network, and FanDuel TV on Friday and Saturday.
Saturday will feature a revamped race order with two Breeders' Cup races slated for after the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). The $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) and the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) plus a final undercard race will all follow the $6 million Classic. This year marks the first time that Breeders' Cup races will be held after the Breeders' Cup Classic. The race 12 finale will have a published post time of 8:32 p.m. ET.
This year's Breeders' Cup begins Nov. 3 with Future Stars Friday, featuring all five Breeders' Cup World Championships races for 2-year-olds. There will be four undercard races preceding the first Breeders' Cup race on Friday's 10-race program, with the first race post time at 2:30 p.m. ET.
USA Network and FanDuel TV will both televise the first day of this year's World Championships. USA Network coverage will take place from 4-8 p.m. ET and will include one undercard race and all five Breeders' Cup races, concluding with the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) at 7:40 p.m. ET. FanDuel TV coverage will begin at 2:30 p.m. ET with the first undercard race and will conclude with undercard race 10 at 8:10 p.m. ET.
Nine Breeders' Cup races anchor a 12-race card on Saturday, Nov. 4. First post is 1:10 p.m. ET, with two undercard races preceding the first Breeders' Cup race, which will have a post time of 2:30 p.m. ET.
The USA Network coverage on Saturday is from 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET, followed by an extended 3 1/2 hours of live programming on NBC and Peacock from 3:30-7 p.m. ET that will feature five World Championship races, concluding their coverage with the Breeders' Cup Classic. Post time for the Breeders' Cup Classic, race 9, will be 6:40 p.m. ET. The Classic will lead into NBC Sports' Big Ten Football coverage.
FanDuel TV will also televise the first two undercard races and eight of the nine Breeders' Cup World Championships races on Saturday. Following the running of the Breeders' Cup Classic on NBC and Peacock, FanDuel TV will televise the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and the Breeders' Cup Sprint and will conclude its coverage with a final undercard race with a post time of 8:32 p.m. ET.
The official race order and final post times for the 2023 World Championships will be released Oct. 25.
