Prat wins Shoemaker Award after 2 Breeders' Cup wins

Flavien Prat, who guided two horses to Breeders’ Cup victories Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar, won the 22nd Bill Shoemaker Award as the outstanding jockey of the event.

The Shoemaker Award goes to the jockey who rides the most winners in the 14 championship races, with the tiebreaker being a 10-3-1 point system for second- through fourth-place finishes.

Prat and Ryan Moore each won two races but thanks to a runner-up effort on Raging Sea in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, Prat took the tiebreaker from Moore.

Prat’s victories came back to back Saturday afternoon with Sierra Leone in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Moira in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Prat also had two thirds with Domestic Product in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Mullikin in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Moore’s victories came Friday with Henri Matisse in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and Lake Victoria in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

The Shoemaker Award is named in honor of one of the greatest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing. Bill Shoemaker, who captured the Kentucky Derby four times, won 8,833 races in a career that spanned more than 40 years. In 1987, at age 56, Shoemaker won the Breeders’ Cup Classic aboard Ferdinand at Hollywood Park.