Final Saturday at Saratoga featured 4 Grade 1 stakes value a mixed $3 million in purse cash. Two of these – the Whitney Stakes and FanDuel Fourstardave Stakes – had been Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races. On the opposite facet of the nation “the place the turf meets the surf” at Del Mar, one other Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence race, the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Introduced by Oak Tree Racing Affiliation, was held. The outcomes of those and different races over a improbable coast-to-coast weekend introduced main adjustments to the Equibase leaderboard tabulating 2025 earnings in North America.
Deterministic stole the highlight from favored Johannes within the Fourstardave Stakes and earned an computerized berth into the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Introduced by PDJF in November. The 4-year-old Liam’s Map colt received the Fourstardave by 1 ¼ lengths, marking his third consecutive graded stakes win and second straight Grade 1 victory. With the lion’s share of the $750K purse, Deterministic pushed his 2025 earnings to $1,102,125, transferring him 18 spots up the Equibase leaderboard. He now sits at ninth general and fourth within the 4-year-old and up division.
Saturday’s marquee function at Saratoga was the celebrated $1 million Whitney Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile filth showdown for older horses. For the primary time in historical past, two Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional winners met in the identical race: 2023 champ White Abarrio and 2024 winner Sierra Leone. It was Sierra Leone who emerged victorious, including one other Grade 1 title to his rising résumé and turning into the eighth horse in historical past to win each the Whitney and the Traditional (he earned an computerized bid to repeat within the Traditional through his win Saturday). The Chad Brown trainee rocketed into the highest 100 and is twenty third on the general leaderboard and tenth within the 4-year-old and up division with $798,200.
Practically 3,000 miles away in southern California, Seismic Magnificence, a 4-year-old filly by Uncle Mo, went gate-to-wire to win the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes by 1 ½ lengths below Juan Hernandez. The Maryland-bred moved into the highest 100 in Equibase’s general standings and is now sixty fourth. She earned an computerized berth to the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
There have been no adjustments to the highest 5 jockeys within the standings final week, and Brad Cox continues to dominate the coach standings with over $16.9 million in earnings, with Steve Asmussen trailing in second by extra $2 million; nonetheless, Mark Casse and Chad Brown had been the one two trainers final week with greater than $1 million in earnings they usually each surpassed $13 million for the 12 months. Brown nonetheless stays in third place with $13,806,855 in earnings, however Casse is sizzling on his heels and trails by simply $211,913.
North American leaders lists for horses, jockeys, trainers and homeowners can be found on equibase.com and you’ll filter the information to view by all kinds of classes together with age, intercourse, floor and race sort.
