Paco Lopez and Luis Saez are tied for first place in wins, each with 23, after 21 days of Gulfstream Park’s championship meet.
Racing resumes at Gulfstream on
Wednesday with ten races and first post at 12:35 p.m. Lopez and Saez both have mounts in five races
that day.
Their schedules will then get even
busier. Lopez is named on nine mounts on
both Thursday and Friday. Saez has seven
mounts on Thursday and nine on Friday.
Lopez has ridden in 113 races and
leads Gulfstream jockeys with his mounts winning $611,995. Saez has ridden in 92 races and his mounts
have won $536,597.
Nik Juarez is third with 14
victories, followed by Jose Lezcano with
13 and Tyler Gaffalione with 12.
Three-time defending champion Javier
Castellano has ten wins in just 35 starts, and now that he is riding full-time
at Gulfstream can be expected to challenge Saez and Lopez.
Castellano led the Gulfstream
2015-2016 championship meet with 113 wins. Saez was second with 86 wins, and
Lopez was third with 58.
The 87-day meet will end on April 2.
*Todd Pletcher leads trainers with
19 wins, and appears headed toward his 14th straight Gulfstream
championship meet title.
Jorge Navarro is second with 11
wins, followed by Mike Maker with nine.
*Among owners, Ken and Sarah Ramsey
are in first place with six wins. They led
owners in wins in each of the last five Gulfstream championship meets.
Grupo 7C Racing is in second place
with four wins,
Four stables are tied for third place
with three wins each. They are NTS Racing Stable, Monster Racing, Magic Stable
and Drawing Away Stable.
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