He finished fourth in the Belmont standings with 33 wins. in earnings with $13,758,777, is banking on a big summer at Saratoga to put him in Eclipse contention. Prat, who is currently second nationally to Ortiz, Jr. The Saratoga colony is getting a major addition with Flavien Prat being based here this summer. (35), Tyler Gaffalione (33), Manny Franco (23), John Velazquez (19), Jose Lezcano (18), and Davis (18) rounded out the top 10 in wins. Reigning Eclipse Award winner Joe Rosario won 43 races here last summer, while Ricardo Santana, Jr. was second with 56, followed by his brother, Jose Ortiz, with 51. In 2021, Luis Saez topped the standings with 64 wins. The jockey colony at Saratoga will be - as it always is - a loaded one. The Saratoga Springs graduate, who won his first NYRA riding title at the 2021-22 Aqueduct winter meet, saw stakes success when guiding Make Mischief to victory in the Critical Eye Handicap. I’m happy for him and I’m happy he gave me the opportunity to ride those kinds of horses.”ĭavis won the final race of the Belmont meet aboard Dream of a Day to finish with 47 wins. “He’s a great trainer and he knows what he’s doing with his horses.

It’s hard to win that many races,” Ortiz, Jr. “He broke the record this year, so it’s something nobody will forget. Clement, Pletcher, Hall of Famers Mark Casse, Shug McGaughey and Bill Mott, Eclipse Award winner Brad Cox, Rob Atras, Mike Maker, Linda Rice, Rudy Rodriguez, and Wesley Ward also figure to make plenty of headlines in the trainer ranks at Saratoga this summer. I’m so happy for all of them.”Ĭhristophe Clement finished second in the Belmont standings with 33 wins and Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher finished third with 25. Irad Ortiz was injured when his horse took an awkward step and he was unseated. “I’m a very fortunate person to be around the horses, staff and owners. Jose Ortiz, Irad’s younger brother by a year, was named to ride Known Agenda in the 1½-mile race. “This was a historic meet for me, my team, my clients and, most importantly, the horses, who do all the work,” Brown told NYRA. He posted a win percentage of 30.72 and finished in-the-money at a 64.71 percent clip. In total, Brown closed out the meet with a record of 153-47-30-22 and earnings of $5,776,633.

This past Saturday, 3-year-old filly McKulick delivered a dazzling performance to win the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational, giving Brown his sixth win in that event. Brown’s success at the Belmont meeting included 12 graded stakes victories, capped by a remarkable Belmont Stakes Racing Festival weekend when he scored four Grade 1 victories with Jack Christopher (Woody Stephens), Regal Glory (Just a Game), Bleecker Street (New York), and Tribhuvan (Manhattan).

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