“Entering the final, six-day week of the meeting, Flavien Prat and Phil D’Amato are the ones to catch as they set sights on their first Del Mar jockey and trainer titles respectively.
For Prat, a 24-year-old native of Melun, France, it would be a first championship anywhere. D’Amato came into the meeting having won the training championships at both the spring and summer meetings at Santa Anita.
Prat won six races over the weekend to open up a seven-win gap (35-28) over four-time defending champion Rafael Bejarano with Santiago Gonzalez one more behind.
D’Amato notched two wins on Saturday and one on Sunday as did Bob Baffert. Richard Baltas and Peter Miller each won twice on Sunday to stay within range, but D’Amato leads by three over Baltas (19-16) and four over Miller and Baffert. Through the first 33 days of the season, the top five trainers: D’Amato, Baltas, Miller, Baffert, and Sadler have won 26% of the total races run.”
Source: Horse Racing Nation/ Del Mar Thoroughbred Club