Saturday’s 33 stakes races highlighted main prize races on the Fairgrounds, Turfway Park, Oaklawn Park and Santa Anita Park, making for some huge modifications to the Equibase leaderboard within the 3-and-older division.
Among the many main stakes are the primary 100-point Longines Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby, held by the Woodford Reserve Prep race of the season, which reshaped the possible future beneath Twin Spiers in simply over 5 weeks.
The Full Effort jockey, who began his 3-year-old season with runner-up finishes within the Leonatus Stakes and John Battaglia Memorial Stakes, punched his ticket to the Kentucky Derby by rounding the winner’s circle within the $777,000 Jeff Ruby Steak at Turfway on Saturday. He at the moment sits on the high of the Street to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard with 110 qualifying factors. The stallion Liam’s Map gained simply by two and a half lengths, taking coach Brad Cox’s Equibase Pace Determine of 96. Full Effort ranks fifth within the 3-year-old division and eighth total with 2026 earnings of $507,900.
Lower than an hour after Jeff Ruby, Rising Market and Pavlovian put collectively a formidable run within the Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby on the Fairgrounds, Rising Market gained by a head, incomes $600,000 and 100 qualifying factors on the way in which to the Kentucky Derby. Following a formidable debut win at Tampa Bay Downs in February, he improved to 2-2 in his profession in rising markets. He ranks second on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard with coach Chad Brown’s 100 qualifying factors, second amongst 3-year-olds with $618,880 in prize cash, and third on the general leaderboard.
Cox’s go-to mare mare Lifetime of Pleasure had an important run within the Feig-Tipton Fairgrounds Oaks, profitable by 3 3/4 lengths over the clear favourite Vera Ballerina. This was Lifetime of Pleasure’s first win of the 12 months after ending second within the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in February. She is at the moment tied for third within the 3-year-old division with $260,000 in 2026 earnings and leads the Kentucky Oaks leaderboard with 122 qualifying factors.
Skippylongstocking, a 7-year-old out of Exaggerator, stays on the high of the Equibase leaderboard in complete prize cash after a dominant five-and-a-quarter victory within the Essex Handicap at Oaklawn Park on March twenty first. That is his first begin since profitable the G1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes in January, and he has gained $1,971,000 in prize cash in 2026 with two wins and two losses.
Touchpona Star, one other 7-year-old horse who scored a graded stakes win over the weekend, set a document with a half-length win on the Fairgrounds within the New Orleans Basic Stakes Offered by Hagyard, profitable for the second 12 months in a row. The Star Guitar gelding ran the 1 1/8 mile in 1:46.84 for his fifth straight stakes win. Touchpona Star earned $390,000 in 2026 with two wins and two losses, shifting him to fourth place and eleventh place within the senior males’s division.th entire. With this victory, the Touchpona star has earned greater than $2 million in profession prize cash and maintains a 100% in-the-money document with a document of 21 wins, 4 seconds, and three seconds in 28 races.
Raginos earned the best Equibase velocity determine of any North American horse final week with a 118 within the Muniz Memorial Basic Stakes offered by Horse Racing Nation on the Fairgrounds. Raginos coated the 1 1/8-mile turf in 1 minute, 48.17 seconds, lower than a second shy of the course document for 2 consecutive main stakes wins at this 12 months’s Fairgrounds. With an revenue of $305,000 in 2026, Raginos ranks fifth and 14th amongst older males.th entire. With this win, his lifetime earnings exceeded $2 million.
The highest three jockeys in North America stay the identical, with first place Tyler Gaffalione and second place Flavien Prat, each of whom final week earned greater than $5 million in 2026. Gaffalione stays within the lead, however Prat continues to shut the hole and is now separated by simply $33,324. Final week, Pratt led all jockeys with earnings of $1,095,140 and gained six races for a profitable proportion of 33%. On Saturday, Pratt traveled to the Fairgrounds and gained each the Fairground Oaks and the Louisiana Derby.
On the coaching aspect, Cox, Steve Asmussen and Safie Joseph Jr. every revamped $5 million final week. Brad Cox moved into first place on the leaderboard with simply $31,709 forward of Asmussen. Cox completed the week with earnings of $1,105,764 and 9 wins, whereas Asmussen led all trainers with 13 wins whereas incomes $943,633.
Final week’s high grossing trainers — Brad Cox: 9 wins, $1,105,764
Final week’s high incomes jockeys — Flavien Prat: 6 wins, $1,095,140
Prime Equibase velocity numbers from final week — Raginos: 118
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