Top Ten Horses, Jockeys, Trainers
By May 16, Big Brown, Garrett Gomez, Steve Asmussen Were Leaders
May 29, 2008 BarbaraAnne Helberg
The Top Ten in winning Thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers were led by Big Brown, Garrett Gomez, and Steve Asmussen up to Preakness Stakes weekend.
Big Brown, trained by Richard Dutrow, Jr. continued to electrify the Triple Crown world by easily winning the Preakness Sakes. Set to challenge for the first Triple Crown title in 30 years, the big brown machine goes to post next on June 7 in the third leg of the Triple, the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, Elmont, New York. Big Brown's earnings were at $2,676,700 before the Preakness.
Jockey Garrett Gomez has saddled 432 starters, won 83 times, and earned $7,299,406. He's brought in 71 places, and 68 shows. Big Brown's jockey, Kent Desormeaux, is just behind Gomez with 440 strarters, 81 victories, 57 seconds, and 65 thirds. His earnings topped $6 million, leveling off at $6,917,518.
Asmussen stood at earnings of $8,463,118 from 1,058 starters, 245 firsts, 175 seconds, and 144 thirds.
The Rest of the Top Ten at Preakness weekend:
Horses --- No.2 - Go Between, 3 starts, 1 win, 2 seconds, 0 thirds, 0 off the board races; earnings, $780,000.
No.3 - Heatseeker, 4-1-2-1-0, $768,000
No.4 - Gayego, 5-2-1-0-2, $687,820
No.5 - Proud Spell, 4-2-1-1-0, $681,340
No.6 - Eight Belles, 5-4-1-0-0; $664,000
No.7 - Einstein, 5-3-1-0-1; $588,849
No.8 - Colonel John, 3-2-0-0-1; $570,000
No.9 - Tale of Ekati, 3-1-0-0-2; $556,000
No.10 - Pyro, 4-2-0-0-2; $540,000
Jockeys --- No.3 - Rafael Bejarano, 407 starts, 84 firsts, 81 seconds, 50 thirds; earnings, $5,841,167
No.4 - Edgar Prado, 451, 79, 67, 53; $5,565,514
No.5 - Ramon Dominguez, 477, 122, 80, 73; $4,871,612
No.6 - John Velazquez, 470, 106, 71, 56; $4,832,130
No.7 - Eibar Coa, 613, 113, 95, 78; $4,582,505
No.8 - Robby Albarado, 461, 89, 69, 69; $4,282,216
No.9 - Rajiv Maragh, 565, 96, 100, 83; $4,243,801
No.10 - Alan Garcia, 534, 93, 89, 78; $4,128,763
Tainers --- No.2 - Todd Pletcher, 403 starters, 88 firsts, 62 seconds, 53 thirds; earnings, $5,610,671
No.3 - Richard Dutrow, Jr., 282, 66, 51, 42; $5,223,768
No.4 - Gary Contessa, 549, 89, 80, 79; $3,998,555
No.5 - William Mott, 313, 46, 45, 47; $3,825,646
No.6 - Robert Frankel, 196, 36, 27, 29; $3,743,718
No.7 - Kairan McLaughlin, 251, 66, 42, 31; $3,743,492
No.8 - Scott Lake, 871,184, 154, 108; $3,546,398
No.9 - Jerry Hollendorfer, 465, 106, 85, 58; $3,281,784
No.10 - Bruce Levine, 280, 72, 51,47; $2,766,534
Top Ten Owners:
No.1 --- Zayat Stables; No.2 --- Stronach Stables; No.3 --- IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa, Jr.; No.4 --- Winning Move Stable; No.5 --- Maggi Moss; No.6 --- Darley Stable; No.7 --- Heiligbrodt Racing Stable; No.8 --- Robert Cole, Jr.; No.9 --- Peter Vegso; No.10 --- West Point Thoroughbreds.
Top Ten Breeders:
No.1- Adena Springs ----- No.2 - Sez Who Thoroughbreds ----- No.3 - Farnsworth Farms ----- No.4 - Mr. & Mrs. Martin Wygod ----- No.5 - Eugene Melnyk ----- No.6 - Fares Farm ----- No.7 - Kenneth & Sarah Ramsey ----- No.8 - Brereton Jones ----- No.9 - John Franks ----- No.10 - Arthur Appleton
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