Last Saturday at Saratoga featured four Grade 1 stakes worth a combined $3 million in purse money. Two of those – the Whitney Stakes and FanDuel Fourstardave Stakes – were Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races. On the other side of the country “where the turf meets the surf” at Del Mar, another Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series race, the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Presented by Oak Tree Racing Association, was held. The results of these and other races over a fantastic coast-to-coast weekend brought major changes to the Equibase leaderboard tabulating 2025 earnings in North America.

Deterministic stole the spotlight from favored Johannes in the Fourstardave Stakes and earned an automatic berth into the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Presented by PDJF in November. The 4-year-old Liam’s Map colt won the Fourstardave by 1 ¼ lengths, marking his third consecutive graded stakes win and second straight Grade 1 victory. With the lion’s share of the $750K purse, Deterministic pushed his 2025 earnings to $1,102,125, moving him 18 spots up the Equibase leaderboard. He now sits at ninth overall and fourth in the 4-year-old and up division.

Saturday’s marquee feature at Saratoga was the prestigious $1 million Whitney Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile dirt showdown for older horses. For the first time in history, two Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic winners met in the same race: 2023 champ White Abarrio and 2024 winner Sierra Leone. It was Sierra Leone who emerged victorious, adding another Grade 1 title to his growing résumé and becoming the eighth horse in history to win both the Whitney and the Classic (he earned an automatic bid to repeat in the Classic via his win Saturday). The Chad Brown trainee rocketed into the top 100 and is 23^rd on the overall leaderboard and 10^th in the 4-year-old and up division with $798,200.

Nearly 3,000 miles away in southern California, Seismic Beauty, a 4-year-old filly by Uncle Mo, went gate-to-wire to win the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes by 1 ½ lengths under Juan Hernandez. The Maryland-bred moved into the top 100 in Equibase’s overall standings and is now 64^th. She earned an automatic berth to the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

There were no changes to the top five jockeys in the standings last week, and Brad Cox continues to dominate the trainer standings with over $16.9 million in earnings, with Steve Asmussen trailing in second by more $2 million; however, Mark Casse and Chad Brown were the only two trainers last week with more than $1 million in earnings and they both surpassed $13 million for the year. Brown still remains in third place with $13,806,855 in earnings, but Casse is hot on his heels and trails by just $211,913.

North American leaders lists for horses, jockeys, trainers and owners are available on equibase.com and you can filter the data to view by a wide variety of categories including age, sex, surface and race type.