Chad Brown tacked on two extra graded stakes victories this previous weekend at Belmont on the Large A, and with these wins he has edged previous Steve Asmussen to guide the Equibase coach standings by earnings.
Brown gained the Sands Level Stakes with Spaliday in addition to the Knickerbocker Stakes with Andthewinneris. With $24,270,409 in general earnings, Brown is adopted carefully by Steve Asmussen who dropped to second, lower than $350,000 behind. Asmussen and Brown have been going head-to-head all yr in a battle for first within the standings and there could possibly be additional shake-ups among the many leaders with the Breeders’ Cup lower than three weeks away. Brown can also be ranked first by wins (45) and earnings within the graded stakes division.
After a record-setting six-length win within the Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup Stakes Offered by Dixiana at Keeneland, She Feels Fairly has cracked the highest 100 within the standings amongst racehorses. She’s ranked seventy fifth general and eleventh within the 3-year-old fillies division. After ending second by a neck to Grayosh within the Lake Placid Stakes Offered by Caesars Sportsbook at Saratoga in August, She Feels Fairly has returned to her finest type, securing a second Grade 1 victory in her profession following a win within the Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes in fall 2023. The filly by Karakontie has completed within the cash in all 4 begins this yr and bankrolled $595,938 in earnings, together with wins within the listed Hilltop Stakes and final Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II. She was purchased for $240,000 as a yearling by 2006 Eclipse Award Excellent Proprietor Lael Stables, who owned that yr’s Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro.
Different notable modifications within the standings embrace Freeway Robber, who jumped up 20 spots within the standings and is now forty first after his win within the Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland. Freeway Robber earned a career-high 120 Equibase Velocity Determine within the Sycamore, profitable by a nostril over Daring Act in a dramatic end and setting a brand new course file at Keeneland going 1 ½ miles on the turf in 2:26.08. Future Is Now has additionally cracked the highest 100 within the standings and is ranked 92nd in earnings following his win in Keeneland’s Franklin Stakes for coach Michael Trombetta. The Maryland-Bred by Nice Notion has 5 wins from 9 begins in 2024, accumulating $513,155 in earnings.
There have been no important modifications within the jockey standings as Irad Ortiz Jr. stays first by wins and earnings in 2024 adopted by Flavien Prat and Tyler Gaffalione. Ortiz Jr., who earned profession win 4,000 final Sunday at Keeneland, has gathered $27,973,646 in earnings, Prat has $27,119,731, and Gaffalione has $24,772,981. Prat may nonetheless be second within the general standings; nevertheless he stays first within the graded stakes division having amassed 47 graded stakes victories and $15,998,673 in earnings whereas profitable at an unbelievable 30%. Gaffalione had yet one more improbable week of driving, with 9 wins from 28 begins (32%) and $675,479 in earnings.
