After setting the single-season winnings record last week, Irad Ortiz Jr. his lead by adding six wins at Gulfstream Park, bringing his 2025 earnings to $39,628,385. Flavien Prat remains close behind in second place, just $385,204 behind after one win from 13 mountains last week. Ortiz Jr. also leads all North American jockeys in wins with 340, while Prat continues to trail the leaderboard in both stakes wins (71) and graded stakes wins (45). Ortiz Jr. ranks second in both categories. With just 11 races left in the 2025 slate, six of which are scheduled for Santa Anita Park’s opening day on December 26, the race for year-end honors is far from settled.
The road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Woodford Reserve, continued on December 13 with the 45e running the Los Alamitos Futurity. Litmus Test, a two-year-old colt by Nyquist, justified his 3-5 favoritism in this year’s edition, taking the lead on the 16th pole and holding off a late rally by stablemate Blacksmith to win by 1 ¼ lengths under Juan Hernandez, giving trainer Bob Baffert a record 15.e victory in the race. With the win, Litmus Test earned 10 Kentucky Derby qualifying points and moved into second place on the Road to the Kentucky Derby standings with 19 total points. He reached the top 10 on the 2025 earnings list among 2-year-old males and now ranked ninth with $350,188 in earnings.
North American leader lists for horses, jockeys, trainers and owners are available at equibase.com and you can filter the data to view it based on a wide variety of categories, including age, gender, area and breed type.
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