With simply over three weeks left till the 2025 Breeders’ Cup, fall horse racing is reaching its climax. The spotlight of final weekend’s occasion was 16 “win-it-get-in” Problem Collection races throughout North America, lots of which had been held throughout the first three days of Keeneland’s fall competitors, referred to as Fall Stars Weekend. Because it seems, there have been some massive modifications within the class, which ranks horses, jockeys, trainers and house owners primarily based on their 2025 North American earnings.
Within the proprietor class, Spendthrift Farm was an absolute powerhouse final week, rising to ninth on the 2025 record with six wins, together with 4 main wins within the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (Tommy Joe), Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (Ted Nophy), Chillingworth Stakes (Tamara) and Surfer Lady Stakes (Courageous Deb). At Keeneland, 2-year-old filly Tommy Joe overcame a disqualification from Percy’s Bar to win Alcibiades, whereas younger colt Ted Nophy simply received Breeders’ Futurity. Each are offspring of Spendthrift Farm’s essential stallion, Into Mischief. On the Equibase leaderboard, Tommy Joe and Ted Nophy are within the high 100 of all North American racehorses, at present tied for seventieth place.th He positioned third within the 2-year-old division and received $617,963 in prize cash.
One other standout from Spendthrift was Tamara, the fourth offspring of Corridor of Fame horse Beholder, who returned from an 11-month break and ran wild by three-quarters of a size in Chillingworth at Santa Anita Park for the Corridor of Fame, jockey Mike Smith and coach Richard Mandela.
Within the Keeneland Fall Meet’s costliest race, Rhetoric turned in a standout efficiency in his first begin exterior of New York, successful the $1.25 million Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes by three-quarters of a size and successful a career-best 120 Equibase Velocity Determine, his highest in North America, final week. The win was coach Will Walden’s first profession G1 win. Rhetoric is at present 45th 18th general on Equibase leaderboardth Older males will earn $763,800 in 2025. He earned an automated berth within the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile introduced by PDJF.
At 53 years outdated, Corridor of Fame jockey John Velasquez remains to be energetic. He made eight journeys to the Winner’s Circle final week and had 4 stakes wins, three of which had been graded. Velasquez additionally had 5 wins at Keeneland on Saturday. The jockey ended the week with earnings of $1,617,011, rating him fifth amongst North American jockeys in 2025 with earnings of $16,354,869.
Regardless of having robust weekends, trainers Todd Pletcher and Brendan Walsh are ranked fifth and ninth, respectively, on the Equibase leaderboard. Chad Brown was the one coach to make a big change within the standings after incomes practically $1.2 million final week, shifting up one spot to 3rd place amongst all North American trainers behind Brad Cox and Steve Asmussen.
A frontrunner’s record of horses, jockeys, trainers and house owners in North America is obtainable at equibase.com, the place you possibly can filter and think about knowledge by numerous classes corresponding to age, gender, monitor and race sort.
