Watch: Breeders' Cup returns to Keeneland in 2020

Keeneland hosted its first Breeders’ Cup in 2015, an event that culminated in that year’s Triple Crown champion, American Pharoah, winning his final race in the Breeders’ Cup Classic against older horses.

During a series of announcements Friday officially naming the 2019-2021 host sites, Keeneland was the second racetrack to deliver the message and announced it would be home to the 2020 Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

The announcement follows the Breeders’ Cup Tax Incentive permanently being signed into Kentucky law this spring. The pari-mutuel tax exemption was last renewed prior to the 2015 Breeders’ Cup, the last time the event was hosted in Kentucky.

On the West Coast, Santa Anita Park announced it would host the Breeders’ Cup for the 10th time in 2019 and Del Mar, which hosted the event for the first time in 2017, announced the event would return in 2021.

The 2018 Breeders’ Cup will be held at Churchill Downs on Nov. 2-3. The Louisville track, which has been home to the World Championships eight times before, last hosted the event in 2011.