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Joseph O'Brien secured his first Qatar Goodwood Festival training title on Saturday, sending out four winners from just 11 runners. Jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle rode all four of O'Brien's winners. The G3 Gordon Stakes went to the barn's Enceladus (Sea The Stars) on Thursday. Defiantly (Kameko) and Galen (Gleneagles) scored in the Goodwood Handicap and Bentinck Conditions Stakes, respectively on July 31. Rounding out the foursome was Goodie Two Shoes (Fastnet Rock), who struck in Saturday's G2 Lillie Langtry Stakes. Michael Halford, who collected the leading trainer award on behalf...

Irad Ortiz Jr. claimed his first Churchill Downs Spring Meet riding title at the conclusion of racing Sunday while trainer Joe Sharp and owner David Jacobson also took home respective championships in their categories. The riding title is Ortiz Jr.'s second overall at Churchill Downs behind his 2025 Fall Meet win. Represented by agent Steve Rushing, he opened the Spring Meet with a runner-up finish aboard Renegade in Kentucky Derby 152 and followed that with win in the GI Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic, the GII Eight Belles, and the...

The leading owner, trainer, and jockey awards were presented to Coolmore, Aidan O'Brien, and Ryan Moore, respectively, at the conclusion of the 2026 Royal Ascot meeting following a banner week for connections. Various Coolmore partnerships that included Sue Magnier, Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor, Westerberg, Peter Brant and Cayton Park Stud saw the group make eight trips to the winner's enclosure--a record total since the leading owner award was introduced in 2017. The senior O'Brien, collecting his 14th leading trainer title at Royal Ascot, was responsible for seven of Coolmore's winners...

The 2025-26 Classic Meet at Santa Anita wrapped Sunday as jockey Emisael Jaramillo, trainer Doug O'Neill, and owner Kretz Racing stood atop their respective categories as leading rider, trainer, and owner, the track announced Monday evening. Leading rider at Gulfstream Park, Jaramillo won 50 races from 229 mounts at the Great Race Place, a 22 percent strike rate, in his first season riding full-time at Santa Anita Park. Of that total, six were stakes races including the GIII San Marcos and the GIII Santa Ana Stakes. Jaramillo's mounts earned a...

At the conclusion of Laurel's Winter Meet, Yedsit Hazlewood, the runner-up in last year's Eclipse Award balloting for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey, easily secured the winter meet's riding title. Hazlewood won 51 races at the meet, 29 more than Angel Cruz. Originally from Panama, Hazlewood, 18, missed a couple of months due to injuries from an automobile accident, yet still achieved 137 victories in 2025, earning $4,451,869. He earned his first riding title last summer at the Maryland State Fair Meet in Timonium and finished the racing season as the leader...

The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) wrapped up Aqueduct's fall meet Wednesday with Flavien Prat taking the leading rider title and Linda Rice taking the leading trainer honors. Prat's 46 wins included nine stakes victories and five graded victories. His record for the fall stands at 136-46-21-15, earnings of $3,247,016, and a win percentage of 33.82%. Manny Franco was second with 33 wins, while Kendrick Carmouche was third with 25 victories. Rice notched her fourth consecutive Aqueduct fall meet training title with 31 wins and an overall record of...

The Coolmore partners were named the leading owners at Royal Ascot for the third consecutive year and sixth in total, as the five-day stand wrapped up on Saturday. Although they had five victories--the same as runner-up Wathnan Racing--they claimed their latest title by virtue of a countback of placed horses. For Sue Magnier, Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor and Westerberg, Gstaad (Starspangledbanner), True Love (No Nay Never), and Charles Darwin (No Nay Never) took the G2 Coventry Stakes, G2 Queen Mary Stakes, and G2 Norfolk Stakes, respectively. Garden Of Eden (Saxon...

Dylan Davis and Chad Brown have claimed individual meet titles for jockey and trainer, respectively, for the 2024 Belmont Big A fall meet while Klaravich Stables continued their domination of the owners' ranks, NYRA announced via release Sunday evening. Leading all jockeys with 44 wins, it is Davis's third individual title on the NYRA circuit with a winter meet title at Aqueduct earlier this year and in 2022 under his belt. He has 177 NYRA-circuit wins in 2024 heading into Aqueduct's fall meet spanning Thursday, Nov.7 to Sunday, Dec. 29....

Six winners across the week saw Coolmore, Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore sweep the leading owner, trainer and jockey titles at Royal Ascot for a second successive year. O'Brien received a thirteenth leading trainer award at Royal Ascot and increased his lead as the most successful current trainer at the meeting, ending the week on 91 career victories. Moore, crowned leading jockey at the meeting for an eleventh time, surpassed Frankie Dettori as the most successful current jockey at Royal Ascot. His career haul of 85 places him second on...

Jockey Assael Espinoza and trainer Jonathan Wong were leaders in their respective divisions at the recently concluded 2023 Winter/Spring meet at Golden Gate Fields. Assael Espinoza won the most races out of any rider with 93 trips to the winner's circle from 419 starts, equating to a 22%-win rate while his mounts finished in-the-money 56% of the time. "I'm very thankful for all the owners and trainers who have given me an opportunity to ride their horses," said Espinoza. "Ever since I got to Golden Gate, people have been really...

Heading into Friday's closing day winter meet card, Jaime Rodriguez and Jamie Ness appear poised to top the jockey and trainer divisions for Laurel Park's concluding Winter Meet. Rodriguez, 32, holds an 11-win advantage over five-pound apprentice Jeiron Barbosa in the rider standings, 58-47, with eight races remaining. Rodriguez is named in four races Friday, while Barbosa is named in six. It will be the first riding title in Maryland for Rodriguez, who also leads with $1.9 million in purse earnings from 209 mounts. He led the Delaware Park standings...

Keeneland concluded a record-breaking fall meet Saturday with all-sources handle of $208.9 million, a season record for the Lexington track. The 17-day fall meet ran from Oct. 7-29 with Kentucky racing scheduled to switch over to Churchill Downs Sunday prior to returning to Keeneland for the Breeders' Cup Nov. 4-5. The all-sources wagering of $208,907,655 was a 15.41% increase over the 2021 fall meet record of $181,009,626. It was the fourth consecutive season of record handle at the track. The numbers do not include whole-card simulcasting at Keeneland. "This fall...