Flavien Prat set the single-season stakes file on Dec. 7, breaking the earlier file of 79 set by Irad Ortiz Jr. in 2022, and tied Jerry Bailey for the single-season graded stakes file with 55. Prat earned his file eightieth stakes win aboard Poster within the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct for coach Eoin Harty.
Prat rode at a forty five% profitable clip final week and 73% in-the-money with 5 wins from 11 begins and $544,426 in earnings. With 223 wins and $36,758,216 in earnings this yr, Prat leads the North American jockey standings by $5 million over Irad Ortiz Jr. in second.
Poster, an undefeated 3-year-old colt by Munnings, moved into the highest 100 within the 2-year-old division and is now ranked forty third with $241,628 in earnings after his win within the Remsen. The Godolphin homebred added one other graded stakes win to his main proprietor’s resume and banked 10 factors on the Street to the Kentucky Derby introduced by Woodford Reserve leaderboard. Godolphin and coach Eoin Harty received the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Membership Stakes final week at Churchill Downs with First Resort. Poster is now eighth within the Kentucky Derby level standings.
In his second begin after an 11 ½-month layoff, Locked returned to graded stakes-winning type on Dec. 7 at Aqueduct, profitable the Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap introduced by Twinspires.com by a size and a half beneath John Velazquez to earn a 113 Equibase Velocity Determine for coach Todd Pletcher. The Corridor of Fame duo of Pletcher and Velazquez are profitable at an unimaginable 80% in graded stakes at Aqueduct within the final three years. Locked, with a lifetime file of 4 wins from six begins, has solely been overwhelmed by 4 horses; he completed third by 3 ½ lengths to Simply Metal and Be You in his profession debut at Saratoga and completed third by 6 ¾ lengths behind Fierceness and Muth within the 2023 FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Offered by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance at Santa Anita.
Muhimma overcame a gradual begin to set the tempo within the Grade 2 Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct and held off a late charging Ballerina D’Oro within the stretch to win by a size for coach Brad Cox. Muhimma, a $700,000 yearling buy, stays undefeated from three begins and surged up the standings within the 2-year-old division. She now ranks thirtieth with $279,460 in purse earnings. The two-year-old filly joins Poster as one among two graded stakes winners by Munnings final week and likewise earned 10 factors on the Street to the Longines Kentucky Oaks leaderboard.
Likewise, Tenma earned 10 factors towards qualifying for the Kentucky Oaks together with her win within the Grade 2 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos Dec. 7. The two-year-old filly by Nyquist held off a really sport Look Ahead in an exhilarating stretch run and drew clear to win by a size and three-quarters beneath Juan Hernandez. Now with three wins and $369,000 in purse earnings, Tenma moved up one spot into seventeenth within the 2-year-old division standings for coach Bob Baffert.
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