The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course has officially come to an end after five electrifying days of world class racing in New York. Last week, fans witnessed a staggering 27 stakes races at ‘the Spa’ that featured thrilling stretch runs, standout performances, and landmark victories. As the excitement fades, the impact was reflected on the Equibase leaderboard.

Yet again, www.americasbestracing.net/horses/sovereignty reigned supreme, winning the 157^th running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets on June 7 by three lengths over Journalism with Baeza finishing third, the exact same trifecta as the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve just five weeks ago. The Godolphin homebred became the first Kentucky Derby winner in history to skip the Preakness Stakes and win the Belmont Stakes. Following his victories in both the first and third legs of the Triple Crown, the 3-year-old colt by Into Mischief remains on top of the leaderboard as the only horse to surpass $4 million in earnings this year, bringing his 2025 total to $4,729,520.

The Belmont Stakes marked the second career win in the race for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and the first-ever for jockey Junior Alvarado. After notching six victories during the week, including two graded stakes wins, Mott became the sixth trainer in 2025 to surpass $8 million in earnings, climbing one spot to sixth in the standings. Alvarado also advanced one position on the jockey leaderboard, now ranking fifth among North America’s top riders after a strong week with $1,644,239 in earnings.

Nitrogen became a millionaire on Saturday and stayed undefeated in her 3-year-old campaign, winning her fifth consecutive stakes race of the year in the Wonder Again Stakes. She moved up three spots into seventh on the leaderboard and fifth in the 3-year-old division with $1,009,000 in earnings for trainer Mark Casse, who also trained runner-up Bessie Abott.

Miguel Clement scored his first career Grade 1 victory on Sunday since taking over for his late father Christophe Clement, capturing the Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes at Saratoga with Deterministic. Deterministic earned the highest Equibase Speed Figure of any horse across North America last week, posting a 120 for the Manhattan win.

Jockey John Velazquez after Ogden Phipps Stakes win. (Eclipse Sportswire)

Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez was dominant throughout the festival, winning nine races last week at a 31% clip, including four graded stakes victories. He racked up $2,242,779 in earnings for the week, highlighted by Grade 1 wins in the New York Stakes Presented by Rivers Casino aboard She Feels Pretty, the Ogden Phipps Stakes Presented by Ford aboard Dorth Vader, and the Jaipur Stakes with Ag Bullet. Velazquez’s strong showing propelled him up two spots to seventh on the leaderboard, with nearly $8 million in earnings for the year.

Flavien Prat and Brad Cox, the current leaders, respectively, in the jockey and trainer standings, each reached major milestones last week. Prat became the first jockey of 2025 to eclipse $14 million in earnings while Cox further solidified his spot atop the trainer standings, becoming the first to surpass $13 million in earnings this year.

Leading owner Godolphin, whose homebred Sovereignty’s Belmont win highlighted yet another huge weekend for them, has now surpassed $10 million in earnings and is on pace to break its earnings record of $20.2 million set last year.

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.