Interesting Question

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Originally Posted by jnunan4759

They say that Saturday's Whitney will include 7 Grade 1 winners. I can't recall a race with that in my memory. I was thinking maybe a BC race might have, but not even sure about that. I'm not sure a non-BC race ever had 7 Grade 1 Stakes winners in the field. Actually, I'm not sure a BC race had 7 Grade 1 winners in a field.

Anybody got a better memory than me ?

I know they've had 4, 5 and 6.

1998 Breeders Cup Classic. The only non Grade 1 winner was Swain.

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