I think people were curious more than anything about the Breeders Cup being run for the 1st time back in 1984. I remember that I had to miss the live telecast (attended a family wedding), but video-recorded the entire day on VHS and could not wait to get home to see it.
Remember there were no cell phones let alone smart phones and the best you could do was call a betting service that might announce the official order of finish just after the race was official.
The following year I was lucky enough to attend the 1985 Breeders Cup event at Aqueduct. The Big A never seemed so exciting, festive and crowded (and cold) to me than on that day.
So I would say that initial BC in 1984 was a huge success....
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