[1] The inaugural running took place on the first day of the Breeders' Cup at the 2011 host track, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
In March 2013, the Breeders' Cup board of directors voted to drop the race from its program of championships after it had only five competitors in 2012.
"The number of starters and overall quality of the Juvenile Sprint fields for its two runnings did not meet the standards expected for the Championships," said Craig Fravel, Breeders’ Cup president and CEO.
"[3] The small field for the 2012 race was attributed in part to the newly enacted ban on the race-day use of Furosemide for two-year-olds competing in the Breeders' Cup.
The drug, also known as Lasix, is widely used by North American trainers to inhibit pulmonary bleeding in a horse that has just raced.