It has been a comparatively quiet week for Thoroughbred racing throughout North America, with only one graded stakes race scheduled for Dec. 13, however the Equibase jockey place stays hotly contested, with Irad Ortiz Jr. and Flavien Prat vying for the highest spot primarily based on North American earnings in 2025. With about two weeks left this yr, each have grossed greater than $39 million.
After setting a single-season earnings file final week, Irad Ortiz Jr. added six wins at Gulfstream Park to keep up the lead and push his 2025 earnings to $39,628,385. Flavien Prat is an in depth second with simply $385,204 behind after profitable one from 13 mounts final week. Ortiz Jr. additionally leads North American jockeys with 340 wins, whereas Pratt continues to keep up his place in each stakes wins (71) and graded wins (45). Ortiz Jr. ranks second in each of those classes. Solely 11 main stakes races stay in 2025, six of that are scheduled for opening day at Santa Anita Park on Dec. 26, however the races for year-end honors haven’t but been decided.
The Highway to the Kentucky Derby introduced by Woodford Reserve continued on Dec. 13 with 45 horses.th Los Alamitos Futurity run. Nyquist’s 2-year-old colt, Litmus Check, justified this yr’s 3-5 favourite, taking command on the sixteenth pole, holding off a late comeback from stablemate Blacksmith, and profitable by a size and 1 / 4, ridden by Juan Hernandez, giving coach Bob Baffert a file of 15 wins.th Victory within the race. The win gave Litmus Check 10 Kentucky Derby qualifying factors and moved him into second place on the Highway to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard with 19 whole factors. The horse is within the prime 10 on the 2025 2-year-old colt earnings record and at present ranks ninth with earnings of $350,188.
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