The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival on the Saratoga Race Course officially concluded after five days of inspiring world-class races in New York. Last week, fans witnessed 27 stakes races at The Spa, featuring thrilling stretch runs, outstanding performances and landmark victory. Once the excitement faded, the impact was reflected in the Equibase leaderboard.
Again, www.americasbestracing.net/horses/sovereignty had the highest ruler and won 157th The Belmont Stakes run presented by NYRA BETS on June 7th saw Baeza finish third in three lengths of journalism. Godolphin’s homebread became the first Kentucky Derby winner in history to skip the Preakness Stakes and win the Belmont Stakes. Following his victory in both the first and third leg of the Triple Crown, the 3-year-old Colt remains in the mischievous position, remaining on the leaderboard this year as the only horse to surpass $4 million in revenue, bringing his total in 2025 to $4,729,520.
The Belmont stakes were the first career history for Jockey Junior Alvarado, with his second career victory in the race for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. After winning six wins a week, including two-stage stakes wins, Mott became the sixth trainer in 2025, surpassing $8 million in revenue, moving from 1st to 6th in the rankings. Alvarado also advanced one position on the Jockey Leaderboard. Currently ranked fifth among North American top riders in a week’s revenue.
Nitrogen became a billionaire on Saturday, remaining unbeaten in the 3-year-old campaign, winning the fifth consecutive Stakes Race of the Year with Wonder Again Stakes. She went up third on the leaderboard and fifth in the 3-year-old division, with trainer Mark Casse earnings of $1,009,000 and trained runner-up Bessie Abbott.
Miguel Clement recorded his first career grade 1 victory on Sunday, winning the Manhattan resort in Saratoga after being handed over to his late father, Christophe Clement. Deterministic scored the highest horse speed figure of all North America last week, hitting 120 in Manhattan’s victory.
Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez dominated the entire festival, winning nine races last week with 31% clips, including four staged stakes wins. He earned $2,242,779 in revenue that week. She was highlighted in the Grade 1 victory in the New York stakes presented by Rivers Casino, which she feels clean, Ogden Phipps stakes presented by Ford riding Dorsvader, and Ogden Phipps stakes presented by Jaipur Stakes of AG Bullets. Velazquez’s strong show pushed him seventh in two spots on the leaderboard, earning nearly $8 million a year.
Current leaders, Flavien Pratt and Brad Cox, are in jockey and trainer positions, respectively, reaching a major milestone last week. Pratt became the first jockey of 2025, surpassing revenue of $14 million, while Cox further solidified his place above the trainer rankings, surpassing revenue of $103 million this year.
Big owner Godolphin, who highlighted the victory of Home Breed Soverey’s Belmont, highlights yet another big weekend for them, surpassing the $10 million revenue last year, and his revenue record breaks the $20 million revenue record.
The North American leader list is available at Equibase.com for a list of horses, jockeys, trainers and owners. Data can be filtered to display in a variety of categories, including age, gender, surface, and race type.
