Officials at the Breeders' Cup have announced five of Britain's Group One contests have this year been selected as part of the 2011 Breeders' Cup Challenge series.
Winners of Ascot's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the QEII, Newmarket's Fillies' Mile, the Dewhurst Stakes and the Nunthorpe at York will all earn automatic starting berths into a corresponding race at Churchill Downs in November.
The Pretty Polly Stakes, the Moyglare Stud Stakes, the National Stakes and the Irish Champion Stakes are the four 'Win And You're In' races in Ireland.
As part of the enhanced benefits program for Breeders' Cup Challenge winners introduced this year, the Breeders' Cup will pay the entry fees of all challenge winners into the championships and provide a travel allowance of 20,000 to the winning connections.
William Derby, chief executive and clerk of the course at York, said: "We are delighted that the Coolmore Nunthorpe will be part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge in 2011.
"The race is one of the leading five-furlong contests in Europe and has a great roll of honour.
"Of course, Sheikh Albadou and Dayjur wrote their own chapters in Nunthorpe/Breeders' Cup history.
"By including free entry and a travel allowance for the winner of the Nunthorpe to the 1million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint the stakes and competition during the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival is set to be even higher."
