Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

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The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a 1-mile Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it will be a part of the Breeders' Cup, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and will be run on a dirt course (either natural dirt or a synthetic surface such as Polytrack). This contrasts with the similar Breeders' Cup Mile, run on grass. All Breeders' Cups to date have been conducted in the United States, with the exception of the 1996 event in Canada.

The race was run for the first time in 2007 during the first day of the expanded Breeders' Cup at that year's host track, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Because of technical requirements, it is not eligible for classification as a graded stakes race in its first two runnings^[1].

The initial purse will be $1 million US. The 2007 race was held at a distance of 1 mile 70 yards (1673 m) instead of the normal distance of 1 mile because of the configuration of the dirt track at Monmouth Park.