Equibase Leaders: Lucrative Kentucky Downs Purses Affect Standings

September 10th, 2025 by Ben Kudla

Equibase, earnings, rankings, racehorses, trainers, jockeys, Epic Ride, Kentucky Downs, Mint Millions, purses, Flavien Prat, Brad Cox, Street Beast, Juvenile Mile, horse racing, ABR

Epic Ride and connections including jockey Edgar Morales and trainer John Ennis (right) pose in the winner’s circle at Kentucky Downs after the gelding won the Mint Millions Invitational Stakes Sept. 6. (Eclipse Sportswire)

Last weekend’s Saturday and Sunday cards at Kentucky Downs featured eight stakes races worth a combined $15 million in purses, and the ripple effect on the Equibase leaderboards measuring earnings in North American Thoroughbred racing was significant, to say the least. When Sunday’s final race was made official, standings in multiple divisions had been reshaped by results at the turf-only track in south central Kentucky.

Saturday, Epic Ride earned his first career graded stakes victory in the $2.5 FanDuel TV Mint Millions Invitational Stakes. The 4-year-old gelding trained by John Ennis, who competed in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve last year, rocketed to the lead at the second point of call and never looked back, kicking clear to win the one-mile race two lengths under an animated Edgar Morales at the finish. After bankrolling the lion’s share of the Mint Millions’ monstrous $2.5 million purse, Epic Ride now sits fifth in the overall 2025 earnings standings for horses racing in North America and second in the older male division with $1,627,089.

A day later at Kentucky Downs, Street Beast moved into first in the 2-year-old male division after romping by seven lengths in the $1 million Global Tote Juvenile Mile Stakes. The Street Sense colt trained by Ben Colebrook earned his first career win on the Aug. 28 opening day of the Kentucky Downs meet, and with back-to-back wins in lucrative races at the track, Street Beast now has a bankroll of $760,644.

Among jockeys competing in North America, Flavien Prat remains on top of the Equibase standings for the 12^th straight week, surpassing $26 million in 2025 earnings after a very lucrative week with eight wins and $2,576,080 in earnings. Prat set single season records last year in number of stakes wins (82) and graded stakes wins (56) and currently leads in both of those categories this year with 50 and 32, respectively. Brad Cox also remains first in the trainer division, eclipsing $21 million in 2025 earnings after winning at a 36% clip last week.

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.