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Corridor of Famer Coach Casse Jumps to Fifth on Equibase Leaderboard After Banner Weekend



Of the three Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence races final weekend at Woodbine, coach Mark Casse received two of them: the Grade 1 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes with And One Extra Time and the Grade 1 Rogers Woodbine Mile Stakes with Win for the Cash. Casse additionally swept first, second, and third within the Natalma whereas incomes his eighth profession victory within the race.

Along with Casse’s win with Win for the Cash within the Woodbine Mile, he additionally completed second with Filo Di Arianna. On the identical day, virtually 600 miles south in Louisville, Ky., Casse received the Grade 3 Pocahontas Stakes with La Cara, who earned 10 factors at Churchill Downs within the first “Highway to the Longines Kentucky Oaks” race.

The Corridor of Fame coach had a complete of seven wins, 4 seconds, and 7 thirds from 52 begins final week with earnings of $1,522,474, which has propelled him into fifth in the 2024 coach standings by purse earnings, passing Saffie Joseph Jr., who’s now ranked sixth on the Equibase Leaderboard.

The highest 4 trainers by purse earnings remained unchanged with Steve Asmussen main all trainers by practically $2 million, adopted by Chad Brown, Brad Cox, and Todd Pletcher.

Publish Time gave a superb efficiency on Saturday at Laurel Park, profitable the Polynesian Stakes by 11 ½ lengths whereas incomes a 103 Equibase Pace Determine. Publish Time, who’s coach Brittany Russell’s richest horse of all-time, has loved an ideal in-the-trifecta 12 months to date with 4 wins (all stakes races), two seconds, and one third whereas accumulating $745,000 in earnings in seven begins. Publish Time moved up seven spots to thirty ninth within the 2024 standings. His solely losses this 12 months had been seconds within the Grade 1 Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap and Grade 3 Westchester Stakes and a 3rd within the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes.

Different notable performances and adjustments within the 2024 standings embody Zeitlos, who earned her fifth victory in 2024 with a win within the Open Thoughts Stakes. Zeitlos cracked the highest 100 in standings after her win on Saturday and presently is ranked 68th with $565,782 in purse earnings.

Jonathan’s Method is undefeated in two begins after his win within the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes Saturday at Churchill Downs, incomes 10 factors within the first “Highway to the Kentucky Derby” race. The Ohio-bred grew to become the primary graded stakes winner for red-hot, first-crop sire Vekoma.

Irad Ortiz Jr. widened his lead over Flavien Prat this previous week within the 2024 jockey standings and continues to dominate by wins with 236. Ortiz Jr. now has a $1,526,313 lead in purse earnings over Prat.

The star of the North American jockey colony final week was Tyler Gaffalione, who rode eight winners — one at Kentucky Downs and 7 at Churchill Downs —  with $1,056,344 in purse earnings. Gaffalione ranks third within the 2024 standings with $21,420,847 in earnings.

Keep on prime of all divisional standings, together with the flexibility to filter leaders by all kinds of classes, within the statistical part of the web site.

For extra info, in quite a lot of classes, please go to Equibase’s 2024 North American Leaderboard.



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