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NBC Sports To Provide Live Coverage Of Saturday’s $4.5 Million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series

NBC Sports presents horse racing's first major event of the year, the $4.5 million Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series from Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida this Saturday, Jan. 29, live at 4:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

The 2022 Pegasus World Cup features reigning champion and 2021 Eclipse Award Horse of the Year finalist Knicks Go. Also expected to compete in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) are Big Fans Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) champion Life Is Good and 2019 Belmont Stakes winner Sir Winston.

Colonel Liam, last year's $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf winner, will look to defend his title against a field that includes Man o' War Stakes (G1) winner Channel Cat and Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes (G1) champion Hit the Road.

In its sixth year, the Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series will include the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), to be contested by the expected nine-horse field on the dirt at 1-1/8 miles, and the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1). NBC Sports will also present highlights of the inaugural Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf (G3), which will run earlier in the day on Saturday, during the show. The Pegasus World Cup, which is known for world class racing, features a special race day that combines the fusion of celebrity attendees, fashion, and live performances.

Ahmed Fareed hosts Saturday's coverage alongside Hall of Fame jockey and analyst Jerry Bailey, reporters Britney Eurton and Nick Luck, and analyst/handicapper Matt Bernier from on-site at Gulfstream Park.

NBC Sports Audio on SiriusXM channel 85 will carry live coverage of the event.

In addition to Peacock, all NBC coverage will be streamed live on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.

For more information about the Pegasus World Cup, visit www.pegasusworldcup.com and follow @PegasusWorldCup #RunWithUs on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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NBC Sports To Present 11.5 Hours Of Live Breeders’ Cup Coverage

NBC Sports presents 11.5 hours of live coverage of the 2021 Breeders' Cup World Championships this weekend – the richest two days in horse racing – with $31 million in prize money at stake in 14 races. Highlighting the coverage is the $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic this Saturday, Nov. 6, live from Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, Calif. at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

Highlighting Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic field:

Essential Quality: 2021 Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes winner, trained by Brad Cox;
Knicks Go: Korea Racing Authority's five-year-old has won four of six starts this year, including victories in the Pegasus World Cup and the Whitney;
Medina Spirit: Finished first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, trained by Bob Baffert;
Hot Rod Charlie: Trained by Doug O'Neill, finished second in the 2021 Belmont Stakes and won the Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 25.

Live coverage of the 38th Breeders' Cup World Championships begins Thursday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN with handicapping special “Betting the Breeders' Cup.” Live racing coverage begins Friday, Nov. 5, at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, followed by 6.5 live hours on Saturday, Nov. 6, beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN and continuing on NBC and Peacock at 8 p.m. ET.

2021 BREEDERS' CUP TELEVISION SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES ET)

Date Time Event Platform
Thurs., Nov. 4 5 p.m. Betting the Breeders' Cup NBCSN
Fri., Nov. 5 5 p.m. Breeders' Cup World Championships NBCSN
Sat., Nov. 6 2:30 p.m. Breeders' Cup World Championships NBCSN
Sat., Nov. 6 8 p.m. Breeders' Cup Classic NBC, Peacock

COMMENTATORS: Ahmed Fareed hosts coverage throughout the weekend alongside analyst and Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey, who owns 15 Breeders' Cup wins; analyst Randy Moss; reporters Laffit Pincay III and Nick Luck; analyst/handicapper Eddie Olczyk and handicapper Matt Bernier; insights analyst Steve Kornacki; and reporters Kenny Rice, Donna Brothers, and Britney Eurton. NBC's Triple Crown race caller Larry Collmus will call all of the Breeders' Cup races. Maria Taylor makes her horse racing debut as the host of the primetime show Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Thursday afternoon's “Betting the Breeders' Cup” special features Eurton, Luck, Olczyk, Bernier, and Kornacki.

Programming highlights include:

Unique perspectives from the track through multiple live jockey cams and jockey and trainer/owner mics
This year, jockey cams will connect to real-time data viewers will see reflected in graphic overlays on replays, including speed, current position, distance from the leader, and distance from the finish
Breeders' Cup Contender Cam featuring 14 paddock ISO cameras and 10 front-side ISO roof cameras
Drone camera coverage and Megladon camera
An outrider camera capturing intimate moments with the winning jockey immediately following the race
Celebrities make their Breeders' Cup Classic picks
Maria Taylor catches up with the members of Boat Racing, the five former Brown University football teammates who are part-owners in Hot Rod Charlie
A feature on Distaff favorite Letruska – a horse of the year candidate – and what she means to her trainer, Fausto Gutierrez
Nick Luck interviews Charles Scheeler, the Chairperson of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority
A tribute to the late Bob Neumeier, who was a fixture on NBC Sports' Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup horse racing coverage
Access to approximately 75 video sources, including cameras and feeds

NBC Sports' coverage of the Breeders' Cup World Championships is produced by Lindsay Schanzer and Billy Matthews, and directed by Kaare Numme. The coordinating producer of NBC's horse racing coverage is Rob Hyland, who has been a part of the network's horse racing coverage since 2001. Executive producer and president, production, NBC Sports and NBCSN is Sam Flood.

BREEDERS' CUP COVERAGE ON COVERAGE ON NBCSPORTS.COM, NBC SPORTS APP & PEACOCK

NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app will stream live coverage to desktops, mobile, tablets, and connected TVs via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value to their subscription service, and making high-quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. The full HD-quality video stream will come directly from NBC's broadcasts. NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Samsung Smart TVs, Xbox, and Chromecast. NBC Sports.com, the NBC Sports app, and Peacock – NBCUniversal's streaming service – will provide a full race replay of the Breeders' Cup Classic.

BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: The 2021 Breeders' Cup World Championships consists of 14 races over two days at Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, Calif. and features a total of $31 million in purses and awards. The culminating event of the Breeders' Cup, the Breeders' Cup Classic, is contested at 1 ¼ miles on the main track, for 3-year-olds and older. Breeders' Cup Limited administers the Breeders' Cup World Championships, Thoroughbred racing's year-end Championships. The Breeders' Cup also administers the Breeders' Cup Challenge qualifying series, which provides automatic starting positions into the Championships races. Breeders' Cup press releases appear on the Breeders' Cup Web site, www.breederscup.com. You can also follow the Breeders' Cup on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

NBC SPORTS AND HORSE RACING: NBC Sports is the exclusive home to the most important and prestigious events in horse racing, including the Triple Crown, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, Royal Ascot, and Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series. NBC has been the exclusive home of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes since 2001, and the Belmont Stakes since 2011, when NBC Sports Group reassembled the Triple Crown.

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Larry Collmus To Move Into Expanded Role With TVG; International Expert Adam McGrath Joins Roster

After joining the TVG broadcast team for select days this summer, Larry Collmus will move into an expanded role at America's horse racing network. Best known as the voice of the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup on NBC, Collmus will be covering the races from Gulfstream Park this winter as well as joining in on additional broadcasts.

“I have really enjoyed working with the great folks at TVG and doing something new besides race calling has been a fun experience,” said Collmus. “I'm looking forward to expanding this relationship and also returning to Gulfstream where I called races for ten years. It'll be a fun – and warm – winter!”

In addition to his time at Gulfstream Park from 2006 through 2017, Collmus has been the track announcer at major tracks across the country including the NYRA circuit, Monmouth Park and Del Mar, and has worked as the race caller for NBC Sports' coverage of the Triple Crown since 2011 and the Breeders' Cup since 2012. He will be reprising his role as the announcer for the Breeders' Cup which will be held at Del Mar November 5-6.

International expert Adam McGrath, formerly a host at Racing.com with years of experience in Australia, has also joined the TVG talent roster and will be adding his expert insights into coverage of international racing. McGrath currently resides in Ohio but will be relocating to Los Angeles in the new year.

“We are thrilled to continue to bring world class talent to expand our roster,” said Kevin Grigsby, TVG Executive Producer. “Larry brought so much to our coverage this summer at Monmouth Park and I am looking forward to watching his insights from Gulfstream Park and Andrew's global expertise in our coverage of international racing.”

Headquartered in Los Angeles, TVG, a FanDuel Group company, is one of the largest legal online gaming services in the US, processing more than $2 billion in horse racing wagers annually from residents of 34 US states. TVG network airs races from more than 150 racetracks worldwide and is among the most widely distributed horseracing networks in the world, operating TVG and TVG2 in more than 50 million US homes and in HD on Spectrum and DirecTV. The company has demonstrated its commitment to the racing industry, its horse owners, tracks and fans through sponsorship of several prominent races including the TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile, the FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile, the TVG.com Haskell Invitational and the TVG Pacific Classic. For more information about TVG, visit: tvg.com.

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Sportscaster Bob Neumeier Passes Away

Bob Neumeier, whose career as a sportscaster included a long stint with NBC's horse racing team, died Saturday. He was 70.
In 2014, Neumeier, known as “Neumy,” suffered a stroke and had battled health ailments ever since. Boston radio host Tony Massarotti reported that Neumeier died from heart disease/congestive heart failure.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Neumeier broke into broadcasting 1975 as the radio play-by-play man for the Hartford Whalers. In 1981, he was hired by WBZ-TV in Boston, where his duties included working as the weekend sports anchor. He was there for 20 years.

“We are saddened to offer our condolences to the friends and family of Bob Neumeier, who passed away last night,” an NBC spokesperson said in a statement. “In the midst of a prominent career in Boston, Neumy joined NBC Sports and for more than two decades was a beloved member of our family working on horse racing, football and Olympics, among other events. Our thoughts are with Bob's wife Michele, and the many sports fans to whom he meant so much.”

While at WBZ, he also served as the play-by-play commentator for the Boston Bruins.

After leaving WBZ, Neumeier went to work at WEEI, an all-sports radio station in Boston. From 2002-2005, Neumeier served as co-host with Dale Arnold on the station's midday “Dale & Neumy” show. After leaving WEEI, Neumeier covered such events as the Tour de France and the Turin Olympics, as well as racing's biggest events. He also hosted a show on Comcast SportsNet New England.

“It saddens me to report that my friend and former partner, Bob Neumeier, passed away yesterday,” Arnold tweeted Sunday. “Neumy was one of a kind, and all who knew him were better for it.”

“The Boston Bruins are saddened by the passing of our former radio play-by-play voice and longtime Boston sports media personality Bob Neumeier,” read a tweet from the Bruins. “We send our thoughts and condolences to Bob's family, friends, and colleagues.”

“We were very saddened to learn today of the passing of Bob Neumeier,” said the Breeders' Cup in a statement. “Bob was a big part of the NBC Breeders' Cup World Championships broadcasts for many years as a handicapper, reporter and analyst. Bob brought his expertise of Thoroughbred racing and a great sense of humor to every show. We extend our sincere condolences to Bob's wife Michele and to his extended family.”

In 2009, he collapsed while covering the GI Kentucky Oaks for NBC and was briefly hospitalized.

The 2014 stroke, which occurred shortly before he was to leave to California to cover the Breeders' Cup, required 5 1/2 hours of surgery and involved a stay in an intensive care unit. He went back to work seven months later.

“I was really nervous,” Neumeier told the Boston Globe about his return to the airwaves. “I didn't think there would be [butterflies], but there were. There's a lot of people involved here, colleagues and cohorts. They have an eye out, to see how I'm doing. Viewers have an eye out. People are saying, 'What is he doing? What does he sound like? What does he look like?' I didn't want it to be a freak show, not that it would have been. I just wanted it to be seamless. Maybe they missed me, maybe they didn't, but I wanted [viewers to think] my work would be the same. Maybe even better. That was how I thought about it.”

Just three months after the stroke, Neumeier won the inaugural NTRA National Handicapping Championship Charity Challenge.

An enthusiastic racing fan, handicapper and horseplayer, Neumeier was a staple of NBC's horse racing coverage for several years as he covered the Triple Crown, the Breeders' Cup and other major events. Along with Mike Battaglia, he was one of the network's go-to analysts for handicapping insights and betting advice. He had a smooth but dry delivery and an ability to relate to the $2 bettor.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Boston and New England Chapter honored Neumeier with its Silver Circle Award in 2017.

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