LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Handle on the five Breeders’ Cup races held on a revamped Friday card at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., was $38.1 million, according to charts of the races, up 21 percent over the handle on four Breeders’ Cup races on the Friday card last year at Del Mar in Southern California. The $38.1 million was the highest handle ever on a Friday card at the two-day event, although that record comes with an asterisk due to the additional race. Average handle on the five races on Friday was $7.62 million, compared to average handle last year on four races of $7.9 million. Breeders’ Cup revamped its schedule this year to put all five of its races restricted to 2-year-olds, including a new race this year, the Juvenile Turf Sprint, on the Friday card. Last year, the four races held on Friday were the Juvenile Fillies Turf, the Dirt Mile, the Juvenile Fillies, and the traditional Friday anchor of the Distaff. The Friday total this year was also boosted by the addition of a pick five into the handle total, since the first pick five ended on the first Breeders’ Cup race held on the card. Daily Racing Form calculates handle totals from charts based on the race in which a wager pays off. Handle on the early pick five was $1.3 million. Attendance on Friday, a brisk fall day in Louisville with low clouds, was 42,249, according to Breeders’ Cup. Last year, the Friday attendance at Del Mar was 32,578, but attendance at that event was capped. The Friday attendance was 4 percent higher than the Friday attendance the last time that the Breeders’ Cup was held at Churchill, in 2011. Total handle on the full 10-race card was $52.2 million, according to Breeders’ Cup, just shy of the handle for the 10-race card last year. Breeders’ Cup said it was the fourth-highest handle total for a Friday card since the event was split into two days in 2007. Ontrack handle was $7.25 million, Breeders’ Cup said. Breeders’ Cup offered several new wagers on the Friday card this year, including a rolling Super Hi-5 with a jackpot element in which the total pool would only pay out if there was a single winner who picked the first five finishers in order. The bet attracted approximately $110,000 in total wagers during the five-race Breeders’ Cup sequence. Breeders’ Cup also offered three head-to-head matchups during the five-race sequence. Handle on the head-to-head bet offered in the Juvenile Fillies Turf pitting U.S.-based horses against European-based horses attracted $21,688 in bets, and an identical wager in the Juvenile Turf attracted $28,258 in bets. The chart for the Juvenile did not include a total for a head-to-head bet matching the even-money favorite and eventual victor, Game Winner, and Complexity, who finished 10th. Comparisons to last year also suffer from the difference between the time when the races went off. Last year, the races went off approximately 90 minutes later than this year due to the location of the host in the Pacific Time Zone. So this year, bettors on the West Coast were being asked to make time for the first Breeders’ Cup race at just after noon locally, rather than 1:30 p.m. That dynamic may have influenced betting on the first Breeders’ Cup race in the sequence, the Juvenile Turf Sprint. Handle on win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, and superfecta were all down double-digits in the race. Average field size for the five Breeders’ Cup races this Friday was 12.6 horses, while field size in the four Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday last year was 11.5 horses.