Thirty-Four Graded Races in One Weekend Have Reshuffled the Two-Year-Old Colts

Racing packed thirty-four graded stakes into a single weekend, and the young colts felt it most. Equibase keeps the standings that measure a season, and its table for two-year-old colts and geldings came out of those few days in a different order than it went in. Graded status is the sport's mark of quality, so thirty-four of those races in one weekend is an unusual weight of top-level racing. In a division this young, each graded result counts for a lot, and that is why the leaderboard moved as much as it did. For readers who follow these horses from the barn to the sales ring, the new standings are the first draft of the colts' records.

With reporting from America's Best Racing.