Here’s an interesting wager I haven’t seen before.

      According to Matt Hegarty of  the Daily Racing Form, the Breeders’ Cup plans to offer a parimutuel bet on which jockey has the most wins in the 14 Breeders’ Cup races, scheduled for Nov. 6-7 at Santa Anita Park, the organization announced on Thursday.

     Though the field for the wager has yet to be set, the bet will likely have 14 wagering interests, according to Ken Kirchner, the simulcasting consultant for Breeders’ Cup. The 14th betting interest will be a field comprising all jockeys that are not named individually, and ties will be treated as a dead heat, Kirchner said. Wagering will open on Nov. 5, after riders have been named.

    This is the first time Breeders’ Cup has offered a bet on jockeys, though the organization has offered other proposition-type bets in the past, with limited success.

   “We think it’s important to be able to come up with these types of products to stay competitive,” Kirchner said. “The marketplace is going to allow us to move more in this direction in the future.”

     Also on Thursday, Breeders’ Cup announced its official race order, post times for the 14 races, and the wagering menu.

     The Friday card will start at 11:15 a.m. Pacific with two allowance races. The first Breeders’ Cup race, the Marathon, will go off at 12:35 p.m., and will be followed by the Juvenile Fillies Turf (1:08), the Juvenile Fillies (1:45), the Filly and Mare Turf (2:23), the Filly and Mare Sprint (3:02), and the Ladies’ Classic (3:45).

     On Saturday, the first Breeders’ Cup race, the Juvenile Turf, will go off at 10:45 a.m., followed by the Turf Sprint (11:23), the Sprint (12:10), the Juvenile (12:49), the Mile (1:28), the Dirt Mile (2:12), the Turf (2:57), and the Classic (3:45).

     A pick six on the Saturday card will link the Sprint to the Classic and carry a $2 million guarantee, according to Breeders’ Cup. A pick six on the Friday card will link the Marathon through the Ladies’ Classic and carry a $500,000 guarantee. If no one correctly selects all six winners on Friday, then 75 percent of the net pool will carry over to Saturday’s pick six. Saturday’s pick six must be paid out and will not carry over.

    A pick four on the Friday card linking the Juvenile Fillies to the Ladies’ Classic will have a $500,000 guarantee. An early pick four on Saturday linking the first four Breeders’ Cup races on the card, the Juvenile Turf through the Juvenile, will have a $1 million guarantee, and a late pick four linking the Mile through the Classic will have a $1.5 million guarantee.

     Breeders’ Cup is also offering a super high five on the Ladies’ Classic and the Classic. A super high five requires bettors to pick the first five finishers in order. A daily double will also link the Ladies’ Classic and the Classic for the first time.

      Form, Win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, and superfectas will be offered on all races, along with rolling daily doubles and rolling pick threes. Takeout will be 15.43 percent on all win, place, and show bets, and 20.68 percent on all other wagers.

      Last year, bettors wagered $155 million on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races offered over two days at Santa Anita.

WANT TO VISIT WITH RACHEAL ALEXANDRA?

       A personal visit with champion thoroughbred filly Rachel Alexandra goes on the auction block tomorrow-the grand final item in Kendall-Jackson’s “Rachel Alexandra Running Auction,” benefiting The V Foundation for Cancer Research. The auction will end
after seven days; at noon, Wednesday, November 4.

      The winning bid will gain a trip for two to New Orleans and a private visit with the phenomenal Super Filly who ran undefeated in 2009, winning the Preakness and defeating both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winners in her three victories against Grade 1 colts. Rachel Alexandra, thought by many to be the front-runner for Horse of the Year honors,
broke the stakes and/or track records in many of her races, as well as set records for largest winning margins. In 2009, she won all eight of her races.

       The auction is being held at ww.kj.com, where full details of the final item will be described. The cumulative total of all auction proceeds will be given to the V Foundation during The Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita.

      In June, Kendall-Jackson Winery announced the five-month-long charity auction featuring new items each month, donated by winery owners Jess Jackson and Barbara Banke, that are related to Rachel Alexandra’s historic 2009 thoroughbred racing season.
        As bids are taken and recorded, a real-time total shows where the price stands at any given moment. In addition, a cumulative total of money raised to date will be featured on the Kendall-Jackson web site home page. Though 100% of each auction purchase will go the V Foundation for Cancer Research, a nonprofit organized under Section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code, purchases of auction items are not tax-deductible.
        The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded by ESPN and Jim Valvano in 1993. Since that time The V Foundation has raised more than $80 million and has awarded cancer research grants in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Researchers have developed their laboratories and taken their science from the labs to the clinics with the help of funds
raised by The V Foundation.