Final week noticed a reshaping of the Equibase leaderboard with a few of the nation’s high graded stakes going down, notably within the 3-year-old division.
Saturday’s card at Gulfstream Park featured eight closely prized stakes races, together with the Grade 2 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes on the Highway to the Kentucky Derby and the Grade 2 Davonadale Stakes introduced by Inglis Digital USA on the Highway to the Kentucky Oaks. Oaklawn Park and Aqueduct added additional depth to the weekend with important Oaks and Derby preparations of their very own, highlighted by a closing run within the historic G3 Gotham Stakes on the “Huge A” and an exhilarating renewal of the $1 million Insurgent Stakes that concluded the weekend in Arkansas on Sunday.
Gulfstream’s Fountain of Youth led to a fierce duel between Commandment and Chief Wallaby, with Commandment narrowly successful beneath Airado Ortiz Jr., taking 50 Kentucky Derby qualifying factors and nearly all of the $400,000 prize cash. Commandment, a stallion of Into Mischief and educated by Brad Cox, is presently on a successful streak in stakes at Gulfstream in his 3-year-old marketing campaign. Commandment earned $329,220 in 2026, transferring him into third place within the 3-year-old stallion division and seventh general, and fourth on the Kentucky leaderboard with 50 factors.
Oaklawn’s Insurgent additionally placed on an unforgettable stretch run between two promising younger stallions and was separated by only a nostril within the picture end. Uncle Mo’s Class President bounced again on the rails, narrowly defeating Silent Ways at odds of 8.50 to 1. Class President began his 3-year-old season with a 2nd place within the Swale Stakes and took his first profession Grade Stakes win at Insurgent in his debut two turns. With $569,700 in prize cash in 2026, Class President positioned second amongst 3-year-old colts and third within the general standings. The 50 factors earned at Insurgent positioned Class President in third place on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard.
Silent Tactical completed an in depth second to Insurgent, however with $721,250 in 2026 prize cash, he turns into the brand new chief within the 3-year-old male division and second general, with solely Skippy Longstocking forward of him when it comes to purse cash. Silent Tactic additionally ranks second on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard.
After ending runner-up within the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in October, Explorer returned as a robust 3-year-old, successful the Santa Ynez Stakes by 5 and 1 / 4 lengths and ending second within the Fasig-Tipton Las Bergenes Stakes in February. In Sunday’s Honey Bee Stakes at Oaklawn Racecourse, he took the lead on the entrance of the straight and gained by a landslide of three-quarters of a size, as anticipated. Filly Blame is the brand new chief within the 3-year-old filly division, transferring into sixth place general with $496,250 in prize cash in 2026. Explorer additionally dominates the Kentucky Oaks leaderboard with a complete of 95 factors following his 50-point win at Honeybee.
Calumet Farm’s home-bred horse Seabee Easy gained the Davonadale Stakes at Gulfstream Park, a qualifying race for the Kentucky Oaks, by six lengths. CB Easy beforehand gained his debut at Gulfstream on January twenty third. Saturday’s win strikes her into sixth place within the 3-year-old filly division and sixth within the 30-year-old filly division.th General income is $162,320. She scored 50 factors within the Kentucky Oaks from Davonadale and presently sits fourth on the Oaks leaderboard.
Final week, Rush Lips earned the very best equibase pace determine of any North American horse for the second 12 months in a row with a 112 within the Grade 3 Honey Fox Stakes introduced by MyRacehorse, ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, who gained three graded stakes on Gulfstream turf on Saturday.
Within the historic Gotham closing race at Suidobashi, Iron Honor swung 5 huge in a straight line to win by one size over coach Chad Brown. The Nyquist stallion earned a career-high 91 Equibase Velocity at Gotham and moved into tenth place with earnings of $165,000 in 2026.th The three-year-old male class is 28 years previous.th entire. Iron Honor, who earned 50 Kentucky Derby factors at Gotham, ranks fifth on the Derby leaderboard.
Gaffalione grew to become the primary North American jockey to earn greater than $4 million in 2026 this 12 months, and he nonetheless maintains a commanding lead over second place Irad Ortiz Jr. This week’s high 4 jockeys remained unchanged, however Flavien Prat moved up one place to fifth place after main all jockeys this week with $1,077,455 in prize cash.
Safi Joseph Jr. and Brad Cox will each earn greater than $4 million in 2026, with Joseph Jr. narrowly main Cox by simply $54,420. Cox gained at a 34% clip final week, main all trainers with 11 wins, and moved into second place forward of Steve Asmussen with 72% and $1,022,194 in prize cash.
Final week’s high incomes trainers — Brad Cox: 11 wins, $1,022,194
Prime incomes jockeys final week — Flavien Prat: 7 wins, $1,077,455
Equibase high pace numbers from final week — Lush Lips: 112
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