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Now with Belmont Park running races on a synthetic racetrack; why didn't @Equibase keep separate statistics for those races across U.S. / Canada.
Equibase decided to make Dirt/All Weather in their drop down. They should have had Dirt, All Weather and Turf in the drop down.
What jockey has won the most races on All Weather tracks? Nobody knows!
Can we get an explanation @benkudla on why this was done.
Deshawn Parker wins his 5,876th race on dirt. 6th all-time.
Parker 35,171 / 5,876-5,185-4,677, 17%, $79m purses
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026
@equibase @jockeyclub
Joel Rosario finishes third and is credited with a third-place finish and yet his horse doesn't pay to show. In fact he's not even a starter in the race. Why would you include a horse that's NOT a starter in the chart.
Now Rosario, and John Sadler get credited with a loss and their % goes down @DRFAndersen have an opinion? @benkudla
Breeders' Cup Jockeys
ITM%, 40+ rides
50.0 - Buick W.
41.0 - Gomez G.
40.2 - Bailey J.
37.5 - Cordero, Jr. A.
36.7 - Dominguez R.
35.6 - Nakatani C.
34.6 - Moore R.
34.2 - Day P.
34.1 - Stevens G.
33.7 - Rosario J.
33.6 - Ortiz, Jr. I.
26% expected
Antonio Fresu @Antonio1Fresu
Belmont Park
Four-win week; 11 wins at the meet
Saturday
R2 - River Seine (IRE), trainer Michelle Nevin
R6 - Meg's Foxy Grey, Michelle Nevin
Friday
R3 - Putonahappyface, Rick Dutrow, Jr.
Thursday
R8 - That's Not Nice, Chad Summers
Keeneland Jockeys, Fall Meet
Flavien Prat having monster meet for Win bettors
Irad Ortiz, Jr. leads Tyler Gaffalione 16-15 in wins
Racing Stats & Info retweeted
International books' favo(u)rites for the Breeders' Cup via Oddschecker.com
JTS: Libertango 2/1
JFT: Sun Goddess 8/11
JF: Miss Monica 15/8
JT: Great Barrier Reef 15/8
J: Hughes 11/8
TS: Bacio 11/8
DM: Knightsbridge: 2/1
FMS: Ways and Means 2/1
S: Englishman 5/6
FMT: Precise 2/1
D: Nitrogen 1/1
M: Notable Speech 7/4
T: Ombudsman 5/4
C: Forever Young 5/2
Unsolved Mystery (KY) runs her consecutive win streak to eight. 8⃣ Longest streak in North America.
Ridden to victory by Jorge A. Vargas @VargasJrJockey
The 7-yr-old mare has raced in PA, NJ, FL, VA, KY, NY, CA, WA and AZ. What a journey! All four corners and places between.
Breeders' Cup Trainers
Turf Races, Most Starts Zero Wins
19 - O'Neill D.
17 - Sadler H.
14 - Whittingham C.
13 - Hannon R.
11 - Biancone P.
11 - Arnold R.
Horse racing graphics are all over the map
ML how about M/L
and why the ML uses slashes but not the current odds. Why can't it be uniform
Only in horse racing
Delaware Park Jockeys
Riding Titles, 1980-current
-6-
Michael McCarthy 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
-5-
Ramon Dominguez 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
Carol Cedeno 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Jaime Rodriguez 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Paco Lopez wins 1st in '26
Breeders' Cup Jockeys
Turf Races, Most Rides Zero Wins
33 - Saez L.
19 - Espinoza V.
19 - Rispoli U.
17 - Spencer J.
15 - Pincay, Jr. L.
13 - Cordero, Jr. A.
$1 million races 2026 [58]
Breeders' Cup w/ 14 [Rk 1, 2t, 6t, 6t, 6t, 6t, 6t, 6t, 33t, 33t, 33t, 33t, 33t, 33t]
10-KD
9-CD
6-OP
5-Sar
3-GP
2-Kee
2-Prx
1-Bel
1-CT
1-Cnl
1-Dmr
1-FG
1-Lrl
1-Mth
Racing Stats & Info retweeted
Tom,
I understand and respect that these are your personal views. But there’s a BIG difference between the @jockeyclub and @breederscup.
At the Jockey Club, the qualifications for membership seem pretty simple. Be obedient, NEVER question the Stewards, have ZERO say in their decisions, look the other way when the industry needs accountability, know how to hunt pheasants, and hopefully get some closure from having no friends in high school and being picked LAST in dodgeball in grammar school. 😂😂🤣
At least at the @breederscup, you’re SUPPOSEDLY elected by your peers.
So Tom, I decided to do a little homework on the Breeders’ Cup board and leadership. And WOW!!!!! It reads less like an independent organization and more like an extended Jockey Club family reunion!!!!!
Tom, this moment on you. In your defense, of the 14 board members, you’re one of only THREE who have never been a Jockey Club member. So I’ll give you some credit. Maybe you actually ARE trying to make positive change. Unfortunately, you’re outnumbered by the pheasant hunters 11 to 3!!!!!
And it gets BETTER!!!!!
Three board members are current or former Jockey Club Stewards.
Then there’s CEO Drew Fleming, whose connections to Bill Lear and Stoll Keenon Ogden raise some VERY interesting questions about how he landed one of the most important leadership positions in horse racing.
Let’s see. Bill Lear. Jockey Club Steward, Keeneland trustee, HISA draftsman, chairman and partner at Stoll Keenon Ogden. Is there an important racing organization this guy DOESN’T have his fingerprints on???
And Drew’s big qualification for running one of the industry’s most important SALES, MARKETING and GROWTH organizations???
He was a LAWYER at Stoll Keenon Ogden!!!!!
Because when an industry has been declining for 20 years and desperately needs innovation, creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, new fans and GROWTH, what’s the obvious solution???
HIRE ANOTHER LAWYER!!!!! 😂😂🤣
Tom, at some point, we have to stop pretending these organizations are independent when so many of the same people keep showing up in the same positions of power.
Different organizations. Same insiders. Same thinking. Same shitty results.
Mike, these are just my own views as an individual. I’m proud to serve on the board and hope to continue doing so, but I’m speaking only for myself here.
One of the biggest practical barriers is that many state-bred programs and all breeders simply don’t nominate every horse to every program. Eligibility is often an issue in achieving critical mass. That said over time , non-Kentucky-bred North American-foaled horses have already produced roughly 50–60 Breeders’ Cup winners over the years, so the BC platform has been open and successful when they are nominated and competitive.
The Breeders’ Cup has recognized that it’s harder for breeders using lower-fee stallions to pay into every program and still make the economics work. That’s why the board approved a new foal-nomination structure: $200 (half the current rate) for foals by North American-nominated stallions standing for $5,000 or less. It could help thousands of foals each year and is a concrete step toward broader participation. Hope it’s well supported.
Beyond that I would love to see an all-in-one stud fee measure put in place.
Under this setup I’m suggesting, a farm could bundle Breeders’ Cup eligibility into a stallion’s stud fee.
BC-nominated foals bring a big premium at public auction—multiple times what non-BC-nominated foals make—so there’s a real commercial edge here. If every foal by a farm’s stallions is automatically BC-eligible, breeders who sell get that premium as a standard feature.
Rolling the “all-in-one” BC fee into the stud fee at foaling also simplifies life on the farm side: one contract, one invoice, It also makes the stallion’s marketing easier for the sales team to pitch.
The best way for a state-bred/Conference BC series to work is to have everyone qualified to participate.