We catch up on the latest jockey and trainer statistics from Delaware Park. Who’s hot (and not)?

As the meet goes on, we’ll focus on total wins, added wins (above what odds would have predicted), and percentage of purse earned. In these early weeks, though, our stats will be simpler.

The numbers:

DELAWARE PARK JOCKEYS

The table below is sortable on all of its columns and includes every rider to have made at least seven starts at the meet… Julio Hernandez went 3-for-13 to lead all riders in wins last week... Gabriel Maldonado (2-for-3) and Martin Chuan (2-for-7) were the only other riders to win multiple races, as Delaware lost one day of action to the heat… Chuan leads with 8.70 added wins, comparing the number of wins a rider has recorded to the number the odds of their mounts would have predicted… Jose Batista, Jorge Ruiz, and Paco Lopez are his nearest pursuers… The range of all riders is 8.70 to (-7.51)… Ruiz leads all riders in percent of purse earned at over 37%, with Lopez his nearest pursuer…

DELAWARE PARK TRAINERS

The table below is sortable on all of its columns and includes every trainer to have made at least seven starts at the meet… Michael Matz and Cal Lynch won twice each to lead all trainers in wins last week, while leading trainer Jamie Ness was shut out, dropping his win percentage below 40%, though he retains a virtually insurmountable lead in wins… Ness leads in added wins, comparing a trainer’s actual number of wins to what the odds of his or her runners would have predicted… Bruce Kravets, Victor Carrasco, Jr., and Graham Motion are his nearest competitors, though all are well behind… The full range in added wins is 8.28 to (-4.32)… Motion, 8-for-23 at the meet, leads all trainers in percentage of purse earned, as he’s taking in over 38% of available purse money… Ness, Carrasco, and Motion are the only three trainers among the top 10 in wins to be in the top 10 in percentage of purse earned…

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