Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Horses from five continents, including eight winners from previous years, were pre-entered Wednesday for the Breeders' Cup World Championships Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
The 14 Grade 1 races, worth more than $34 million, are set to include a rematch of the first three finishers from last year's $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic -- Sierra Leone, Fireceness and Japan's Forever Young.
The Classic also attracted this year's top 3-year-olds, Sovereignty and Journalism, to one of the most exciting fields in the history of the race.
In all, 191 individual contenders were pre-entered, 46 of them qualified through the "Win and You're In" program, which offers guaranteed spots and travel subsidies to winners of selected races around the world.
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