Godolphin, which has lobbied for 14 North American classified bet winners including four Breeders’ Cup winners, is repeated as the top earners and racers Horse Irad Ortiz, Jr., has set earnings and stakes records in a single season as the top equestrian according to final statistics released on January 3 by Equibase. Chad Brown rose to the top in the final weeks of the year to become the top earnings coach, his first title since 2019.
Year-end compilations are distributed annually by Equibase and include results from the North American Thoroughbred race from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. List of North American race leaders. The US Open includes all trainers, jockeys, owners and horses available in the statistics section at Equibase.com. These lists include the ability to look at leaders in a variety of categories, including age, gender, surface, graded races, year of the horse, and foreign races included. designated, such as the Saudi and Dubai World Championships.
Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) Winner Flight route , who won all three races in North America by a large margin, led all Purebreds in North American earnings with $4,255,000. In addition to his 8 1/4 length win in the Classic, Flightline won the Classic Pacific Share (G1) with 19 1/4 length and the Metropolitan Stock (Gr. 1) with six dimensions. long. When including earnings from Dubai World Cup and Saudi Cup dates, national grammar ended the year with earnings of $10,900,000 thanks to victory at the Dubai World Cup and second place at the Saudi World Cup.
Completing the list of the top 10 horses by income in North America is life is good for $2,882,500, Olympic for $2,862,120, Epicenter for $2,810,000, rich attack for $2,470,200, Rebel’s Romance with $2,080,000, Malathaat for $2,055,675, electronic knife for $2,012,520, Taiba for $1,956,200, and Nest with $1,768,050.
Some of the top horses are also the ones that make the most money from their respective pony crops. The top earners by year of parenting over the past five years are Forte (viaViolence 2020 foal crop), Epicenter (byNot this time 2019), essential quality (via Tapit, 2018), Real (via into naughty 2017) and Knicks go (via payer 2016).
For the second year in a row, Godolphin—with 88 wins in North America in 438 starts—is the dominant force among owners in 2022 with earnings of $16,343,067, down from a record single-season earnings of $17.4 million set for 2021. Completing the top 10 list of North American owners by earnings in 2022 is Klaravich Stables, $9,438,582 (84 wins/336 start times); Peter Brant, $7,772,253 (54/183); Purebred Winchell, $5,661,750 (33/147); Juddmonte, $5,633,762 (38/144); End Zone Athletics, $4,904,429 (254/1,222); Stonestreet Stables, $4,819,200 (49/162); Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, Summer Wind Equine, West Point Thoroughbred and Woodford Racing, $4,255,000 (3/3); Lothenbach Stables (Bob Lothenbach), $4,142,340 (87/378); and DJ Stable, $4,027,993 (34/228).
Brown sent the winners of 244 races from 309 starts with 922 starts to earn $31,057,362 in 2022. Completing the list of the top 10 coaches by earnings in North America is Todd Pletcher, $30,482,937 (223 wins / 342 starts / 1,020 starts); Steve Asmussen, $28,579,134 ($382/594/2,155); Brad Cox, $23,851,590 (222/326/916); Bill Mott, $16,848,240 (102/195/605); Mike Maker, $16,508,941 (209/370/1,215); Mark Casse, $15,486,420 (209/386/1,401); Phil D’Amato $11,954,300 (125/175/612); Jamie Ness $10,321,975 (326/252/1,253); and Christophe Clement, $10,319,052 (124/189/634).
Ortiz made it to the 325-time winner from 1,363 rides in 2022 to set a single-season earnings record of $37,075,772, surpassing the previous record of $34.1 million he held. set in 2019. Ortiz also set a one-season record for winnings with 80 trips to the winner’s circle, breaking the previous record of 76 wins set in 2007 by the late Garret Gomez . Ortiz was the top driver in earnings for three years in a row (2018, 2019 and 2020) and came in second last year.
Rounding out the list of the top 10 jockeys by income in North America in 2022 is Flavien Prat, $29,832,252 (236 wins / 1,013 starts); Joel Rosario, $29,250,139 ($185/915); Tyler Gaffalione, $27,360,825 ($1,491/266); Luis Saez, $24,339,905 (272/1,540); Jose Ortiz, $22,551,703 (214/1,189); Florent Geroux, $16,541,638 (125/791); Manny Franco, $15,179,058 ($185/1.140); Juan Hernandez, $15,018,565 (211/875); and John Velazquez, $13,529,798 (100/625).
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