After a yr away, Chad Brown returned to the highest spot on the record of main trainers by North American earnings in 2024.
Horses educated by Brown earned $30,866,710 in 2024 — the third time he has surpassed $30 million in purse earnings since 2019. It’s the sixth time since 2016 that Brown has topped the North American earnings record, as his horses posted a report of 211-160-130 from 925 begins. These 211 wins ranked seventh in North America for the season.
Brown was paced by 3-year-old Sierra Leone, who led all runners in 2024 North American earnings at $5,911,250. Sierra Leone simply missed supplying Brown together with his first Kentucky Derby Offered by Woodford Reserve win when second by a nostril to Mystik Dan however he wouldn’t be denied within the fall, topping older rivals to win North America’s most profitable race, the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional.
“I’m simply so happy with the horse,” Brown stated after the Breeders’ Cup Traditional. “To lose the Kentucky Derby by a nostril — for a coach, horse, connections, jockey — is about as heartbreaking a loss as you possibly can have on this sport of horse racing. For him to come back out of that race and a grueling Triple Crown path and present a lot bodily and psychological structure, consistency, and soundness to final the entire yr … and get to the winner’s circle as we speak; all of the credit score goes to the horse. He’s only a exceptional horse in soundness, thoughts, and expertise.”
Equibase Checklist of 2024 Main Trainers by North American Earnings
Different Grade 1 winners for Brown in 2024 embrace: Chancer McPatrick, Gina Romantica, Carl Spackler, Home Product, Raging Sea, Methods and Means, Whitebeam, Randomized, Chili Flag, Program Buying and selling, and Beaute Cachee.
Rounding out the highest 5 in earnings had been: Steve Asmussen, $29,338,851; Brad Cox, $28,301,397; Todd Pletcher, $19,901,016; and Mark Casse, $17,721,580.
Asmussen led the way in which with 407 wins in North America. It’s the fifteenth time that the Racing Corridor of Famer has completed atop the wins record as he added to his report profession complete, which by Jan. 7, 2025, stood at 10,761.
Grade 1 winners in 2024 for Asmussen embrace Gun Pilot, Cogburn, and Society.
Rounding out the highest 5 trainers by North American wins are Jamie Ness, 364; Saffie Joseph Jr., 264; Cox, 243; and Casse, 231.
The main coach by win share in 2024 North American races (a minimum of 100 begins), is Puerto Rico-based Edwin Diaz Jr., who posted a 143-77-57 report from 383 begins—good for a 37% win charge. The main coach by win share in North American races (25 or extra begins) is Midwest-based Jason Clever at 55% behind a 18-8-3 report from 33 begins.
The finalists for this yr’s Eclipse Award as excellent coach are Brown, who received 4 earlier instances; Cox, who has earned two accolades, and Kenny McPeek, on the lookout for his first win within the class. McPeek is the coach of Mystik Dan in addition to a number of Grade 1-winner Thorpedo Anna, who’s a lock for champion 3-year-old filly and a powerful contender for Horse of the Yr.
