With lower than three months remaining till the primary Friday and Saturday in Could at Churchill Downs, prep races for the Kentucky Derby Offered by Woodford Reserve are in full swing. Among the many standouts from final weekend, Citizen Bull, the Eclipse Award winner as champion 2-year-old colt of 2024, dominated in his 3-year-old debut, successful the Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita Park by 3 ¾ lengths Feb. 1 whereas incomes a career-best 107 Equibase Velocity Determine for coach Bob Baffert. The son of Into Mischief consequently is ranked 18th within the Equibase earnings standings for North American racehorses with $120,000 in earnings, and he’s ranked eighth within the 3-year-old division.
The 2 different Derby prep winners on Feb. 1, Burnham Highway (Holy Bull Stakes) and Captain Cook dinner (Withers Stakes), additionally entered the highest Equibase rankings, with the previous 12th total and fourth within the 3-year-old division ($151,900) and the latter 15th total and seventh amongst 3-year-olds ($137,500).
The highest Equibase Velocity Determine of the week was 120, earned by El Potente within the Grade 3 Thunder Highway Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 1. El Potente’s 120 is the highest velocity determine earned on turf up to now this 12 months. The general prime Equibase Velocity Determine this 12 months is 122, earned by Tapit Sneakers on Jan. 24 on the all-weather observe at Turfway Park.
Chad Brown, the 2024 Eclipse Award winner as excellent coach, surpassed $1 million in earnings this previous week and moved up one spot into seventh within the coach earnings standings in North America. Brown received at an impressive 70% clip and 90% within the cash final week with earnings of $298,670 from seven wins, together with a graded stakes double on Feb. 1 at Tampa Bay Downs. Brown received the Endeavour Stakes with Saffron Moon and the Tampa Bay Stakes with Working Bee. He had 4 wins from 5 runners final Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs, bringing his profession win proportion on the observe to 33% with 98 wins from 301 profession begins.
Irad Ortiz Jr. and Tyler Gaffalione stay in first and second respectively within the North American jockey earnings standings; nevertheless, Luis Saez had a really profitable week of using and moved up 4 spots into third on the leaderboard. Saez had 10 wins final week, successful at a 34% clip and using 62% within the cash with $565,945 in earnings. 4 of his journeys to the winner’s circle got here on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the place he notably received the Kitten’s Pleasure Stakes aboard Charlie’s to Blame and the Fasig-Tipton Ahead Gal Stakes on Eclatant, and likewise completed second within the Holy Bull Stakes aboard Tappan Road.
North American leaders lists for horses, jockeys, trainers and house owners can be found on equibase.com and you’ll filter the info to view by all kinds of classes together with age, intercourse, floor and race sort.
