There have been 13 graded stakes races throughout North America final week from coast to coast, leading to numerous exercise on the 2024 Equibase earnings leaderboard.
Rattle N Roll scored a 105 Equibase Pace Determine in his three-quarter size victory within the Clark Stakes Offered by Norton Healthcare final Friday at Churchill Downs for coach Ken McPeek with Brian Hernandez Jr. within the irons. The 4-year-old son of Join earned his first win of 2024 within the Clark after he completed third within the Lukas Basic Stakes in his solely different begin this 12 months, and ends his 5-year-old marketing campaign with $409,500 in earnings. McPeek and Hernandez Jr. have been a well-recognized duo within the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs in 2024, successful the Longines Kentucky Oaks with Thorpedo Anna, Kentucky Derby Offered by Woodford Reserve with Mystik Dan and now the Clark Stakes with Rattle N Roll. McPeek turned the primary coach in historical past to win all three of these graded stakes races in a single season, and he ranks seventh on Equibase’s 2024 earnings leaderboard amongst trainers in North America.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s Godolphin swept the Stars of Tomorrow II Day at Churchill final Saturday, successful the Golden Rod Stakes with Good Cheer and the Kentucky Jockey Membership Stakes with First Resort who each earned 10 factors on the Street to the Kentucky Oaks and Street to the Kentucky Derby, respectively. After an undefeated 2-year-old season successful 4 races by a mixed 32 ½ lengths, Good Cheer is 13th in earnings on the 2-year-old Equibase standings with $457,630, and second on the Street to the Kentucky Oaks rankings with 20 factors. First Resort is nineteenth within the Equibase standings with $338,671 in earnings and is seventh within the Street to the Kentucky Derby chart with 10 factors. Godolphin, a six-time Eclipse Award recipient for Excellent Proprietor, leads Equibase’s 2024 proprietor standings with 98 wins and $19,754,341 in earnings this 12 months, together with two Breeders’ Cup wins.
Sacred Want cracked the highest 100 within the standings and is now 92nd after her win within the Matriarch Stakes at Del Mar on Sunday for coach George Weaver with John Velazquez aboard. Sacred Want held off closely favored Gina Romantica to take the Matriarch by a neck at odds of 12.80-1 to present Corridor of Fame rider Velazquez his second graded stakes win on Sunday’s card “the place the turf meets the surf.” John Velazquez had simply three mounts throughout Del Mar’s Bing Crosby meet and completed with two wins and a 3rd. Velazquez is at the moment eighth on the 2024 Equibase jockey leaderboard with 97 wins and $16,384,528 in earnings.
Flavien Prat prolonged his lead over Irad Ortiz Jr. in Equibase’s jockey standings to almost $5 million; nevertheless, the third- by way of fifth-ranked jockeys all had over one million {dollars} in earnings final week. Luis Saez (ranked fifth) had 9 wins from 51 mounts and $1,171,385 in earnings and clinched his third Churchill Downs jockey title within the course of. Saez was aboard each Good Cheer within the Golden Rod Stakes and First Resort within the Kentucky Jockey Membership Stakes and ended the Churchill Downs fall meet with 42 wins, 20 greater than Tyler Gaffalione who completed second. Gaffalione (ranked third on the North American leaderboard) had seven wins from 42 mounts with $1,056,294 in earnings together with a win on Thanksgiving Day within the Falls Metropolis Stakes at Churchill Downs aboard Liked for coach Brendan Walsh. Jose Ortiz (ranked fourth) received at a formidable 41% clip final week with 13 wins from 32 begins and bankrolled $1,023,330 in earnings.
Chad Brown, who sits atop Equibase’s coach earnings leaderboard, had a quiet week with only one win from 9 begins, and that helped second-ranked Steve Asmussen reduce into Brown’s lead by over one million in earnings after Asmussen scored 15 wins totaling $1,301,726 final week. Asmussen traveled out west to New Mexico the place he had three stakes wins at Zia Park final Monday, all three winners ridden by Jose Ortiz. Asmussen is at the moment second within the Equibase coach standings by earnings with $27,983,775 and first by wins with 381.
Different notable performances embody Formidable Man who received the Hollywood Derby at Del Mar for coach Michael McCarthy, Mi Hermano Ramon who received the Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar (scoring the very best Equibase Pace Determine of a 120 throughout North America final week) and Clock Tower who received the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes at Del Mar for coach Wesley Ward with Velazquez within the saddle.
