2024 Pacific Classic at Del Mar
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The 33rd running of the $1,000,000 Pacific Classic will be held on Saturday, August 31 at Del Mar.
The Pacific Classic is the signature race of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and one of the most important races of the summer in southern California. The race was first run in 1991 and is contested at 1 1/4 miles on the main track for horses 3 years old and older.
When is the Pacific Classic?
The Pacific Classic is on Saturday, August 31, 2024!
Where is the Pacific Classic?
The Pacific Classic is raced at Del Mar in Del Mar, California
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Del Mar's 34th edition of the Pacific Classic
August 8 - The 34th running of $1,000,000 Guaranteed Grade 1 Pacific Classic ("Win and You're In Classic Division") for three-year-olds and upward and will be raced at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club on Saturday, August 31, 2024.
The Pacific Classic has been selected as one of the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" Challenge Races.The nominated winner of the Pacific Classic will be entitled to automatic entry into the 2024 Breeders' Cup Classic.
The nominated winner of the Pacific Classic will also be entitled to have pre-entry and entry fees waived for the Breeders' Cup Classic or will receive a credit equal to the Breeders' Cup Classic pre-entry and entry fee amount towards any other 2024 Breeders' Cup Championship Race.
All horses will be entitled to receive a travel stipend if traveling from a base located outside the state of California. To be eligible for the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships to be held at Del Mar on November 1 and 2, all horses must be pre-entered by noon (local standard time at the designated place of pre-entry) by Monday, October 21, 2024. Winner must be Breeders' Cup nominated by pre-entry deadline to receive Challenge rewards.
All Breeders' Cup Challenge Races and Breeders' Cup World Championship races are to be run Lasix free and in accordance with Breeders' Cup Limited rules as they may be published from time to time which rules are hereby expressly incorporated by this reference. All runners nominated to Challenge races and all Challenge winners are subject to out-of-competition testing by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit on behalf of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (or their respective designees). Breeders' Cup Limited reserves the right in its sole discretion to postpone discontinue, amend, or change the conditions of all or any part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win & You're In" race program. Trophies will be presented to the winning owner, trainer and jockey.
Nominations Close Thursday, August 22, 2024.
Pacific Classic History
The Pacific Classic Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for runners aged 3-year-old or up run at the classic American distance of a mile and a quarter (10 furlongs, 2 km). It is run each year in August at Del Mar Race Track in Del Mar, Calif., and the Grade 1 race has become one of the top prizes for older horses racing in the United States each year.
First run in 1991, the Pacific Classic offers a purse of $1-million and is the premier event of the season at one of the nation's premier race meetings conducted for seven weeks each year at the seaside racing plant just north of San Diego. Notable among the runnings of the race was the 1996 renewal that saw champion Cigar attempt to best Citation's mark of 16 straight victories, but fall to a shocking upset ($81.20) by the unheralded Dare And Go and jockey Alex Solis. Another exciting running saw Hall of Fame Jockey Julie Krone become the first female rider to win a million-dollar race when she guided Sid and Jenny Craig's Candy Ride to victory in track record time of 1:59:11.
Del Mar switched its main racing surface from dirt to safer synthetic footing Polytrack in 2007 and the Pacific Classic winner that year was long-shot Student Council, who was handled by veteran Richard Migliore. Starting in 2008, the Pacific Classic is a part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge, where the winner of the race will automatically earn a spot in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Oak Tree.
