Pletcher Continues to Lead Trainers’ Standings

May 13, 2013 –  Todd Pletcher continues to lead the North American trainers’ standings with $9,560,848. Graham Motion is second with $7,801,929 and Bob Baffert, trainer of probable Preakness Stakes starter Govenor Charlie, is third with $5,891,645.

Animal Kingdom leads the equine standings with $6,060,000. Kentucky Derby winner Orb is second with $2,280,900 and will be attempting to add to this total in this Saturday’s Preakness at Pimlico. Game On Dude is third with $1,570,000.

Joel Rosario, Orb’s rider, is far in front in the jockeys’ standings with $13,921,664.

 Javier Castellano is second with $7,358,539 and Rafael Bejarano moved into third with $6,122,178.

Equine earnings are for all starters of at least one race in North America and include earnings from all international races. Trainer and jockey standings are for North American-based individuals but include earnings from select international races.

For a listing of the weekly leaders for horses, trainers, and jockeys through May 12, 2012, click here.

Phipps Family’s Plan Breeds Success

May 15, 2013
By JOE DRAPE
New York Times

The Phipps family stable is half the size that it once was but still spends more than $4 million annually maintaining a band of mares, raising their foals into racehorses and paying exorbitant fees for the mares to couple with the finest stallions. Over nearly a century, the family has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the horse business.

It may be a family pastime, but it is also a business — an expensive one. And the Phippses, whose ancestors were attached to the Carnegie Steel empire, have used savvy methods in improving their horse racing stock. Their business plan has focused on improving the stable’s female bloodlines, making them ever more valuable, rather than simply throwing large sums of money at auctions for promising sires.

Those methods helped produce Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, who will go for the second leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday in the Preakness Stakes.

In January 1946, the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (TRPB) was incorporated as a private investigative agency whose principal mission was to address issues of integrity and security in the Thoroughbred horse racing industry. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the TRA, TRPB represents a unified effort by TRA-member racetrack associations to maintain high standards, protect the legitimate business interests and integrity of the sport, and foster and maintain public confidence.

The Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Scholarship, begun in 1956, originally was named in honor of the late Grantland Rice, a Vanderbilt alumnus and one of the best known sports writers of the 20th century. In 1986, the name was changed to also honor the late Fred Russell, another Vanderbilt alumnus who helped guide the scholarship and its recipients. A $500,000 grant was made on behalf of the TRA in 1986 to ensure the future of this valuable stipend. The scholarship, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt, is awarded annually to students with special interest and potential in the field of sports writing.   Click here for a list of previous winners.

The deadline for applying is January 1 each year. High school seniors may obtain a scholarship application form and further information from: Coordinator of Special Scholarships, Undergraduate Admission, Vanderbilt University, 2305 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203-1727; (615) 322-2561.

Equibase Company LLC is the race data provider for the Thoroughbred racing industry in North America, charting every Thoroughbred race run in the United States and Canada and disseminating the information throughout the vast international network of simulcast wagering.

Subsidiaries of the TRA and The Jockey Club formed Equibase in a 1990 partnership to accumulate the racing data necessary for the unfettered growth of simulcast wagering. Prior to that time, the Daily Racing Form had been the sole collector of chart data and the dissemination of past performance information.

Recognizing the broadest possible availability of race data in daily racing programs was integral to the growth of simulcasting revenues for the tracks, the TRA found The Jockey Club a capable and eager partner in undertaking the technological and logistical issues association with building a data information company.

With the advent of the internet to general consumer use in the mid-Nineties, Equibase quickly found itself well-positioned to enter and serve the fast-growing world of electronic commerce.

Equibase is the sole owner of TrackMaster, whose line of direct-to-consumer products include a wide variety of  handicapping and selection tools for all types of bettors.  

Click here for a listing of Equibase officers and management committee.

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