Based in Kentucky, DeVaux built her business steadily in succeeding years and earned her first graded stakes win when Gam’s Mission took the 2021 Regret Stakes at Churchill Downs. Later that year, Tarabi finished third in the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies as DeVaux’s first starter in the World Championships.

DeVaux’s career ascent continued in 2023 and 2024 as she picked up her first Grade 1 victories with She Feels Pretty followed by Vahva. In fall 2024, DeVaux broke through at the Breeders’ Cup when More Than Looks rallied late to give her a first win in the World Championships, rallying late to capture the FanDuel Mile Presented by PDJF.

Miguel Clement grew up surrounded by horse racing. His father, Christophe Clement, established himself as one of the leading trainers in New York starting in the 1980s after moving from his native France. Miguel graduated from Duke University and then the Darley Flying Start Program, and apprenticed with trainers in Dubai, South Africa, and England before joining his father as an assistant.

Clement worked with his father for over 10 years as the family devised a plan for succession. That occurred due to sad circumstances as Miguel took over Christophe Clement’s stable when his father died from cancer on May 24, 2025 at age 59.

On June 4, Miguel earned his first win as a trainer when Coach Case prevailed in a maiden turf race at Saratoga during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. Just four days later, he earned his first Grade 1 victory in the closing race of Saratoga’s Belmont Stakes Festival as Deterministic prevailed in the Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes.

In 2011, Graham’s name was recorded in the history books as the trainer of a Kentucky Derby winner when Animal Kingdom stormed down the Churchill Downs stretch to win the 137th renewal of America’s premier race. Two years later, Animal Kingdom added more lustre to his trainer’s resume with a win in the Dubai World Cup. Animal Kingdom was awarded the Eclipse Award for champion 3 year old in 2011. Already a success in the breeding shed in Australia and the United Stakes, he was sold to Japanese interests and now stands at JBBA Shizunai Stallion Station in Hokkaido.

As of the beginning of 2024, Graham has celebrated over 2,700 victories with purses earned in excess of $150 million. He is represented by strings at Palm Meadows Training Center and Tampa Bay Downs in Florida each winter.

Michael McCarthy took out his trainer’s license in 2006 and picked up several graded stakes victories while filling in for Todd Pletcher in 2007, including the Grade 1 Las Virgenes Stakes with Rags to Riches. He served as a longtime assistant to Eclipse Award winner Pletcher before going out on his own for good in 2014.

He won the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes with No Problem in 2014 and scored another Grade 1 with Illuminant in 2016 when she won the Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

McCarthy was back in the national spotlight again during the 2025 Triple Crown season with Journalism, who McCarthy trained to wins in Santa Anita’s biggest Kentucky Derby prep races, the San Felipe Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby. Journalism finished second as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby but was right back again two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes on May 17, 2025, at Pimlico, where Journalism delivered as the even-money favorite to give McCarthy his second career Preakness Stakes victory.

Mark Casse is one of only three trainers who are enshrined in both the American and Canadian Racing Halls of Fame, along with Lucien Laurin and Roger Attfield.

He stables in Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, and at Woodbine near Toronto.

Mark has trained 12 Canadian champions as well as American titlists Tepin (2015-2016 champion female turf horse), Classic Empire (2016 champion 2-year-old male) and World Approval (2017 champion male turf horse). Tepin prevailed in the Breeders’ Cup Mile and won the 2016 Queen Anne (G1) during the prestigious Royal Ascot meet in England.

Mark won his first Triple Crown race with War of Will in the 2019 Preakness Stakes and fired right back to win the Belmont Stakes with Sir Winston a few weeks later. He saddled Sandman to a victory for West Point and Partners in the 2025 Arkansas Derby (G1) and a third-place finish in the Preakness.

Cox earned his first career win on December 4, 2004, with One Lucky Storm at Turfway Park. In 2005, Tappin for Gold gave him his first stakes win. He had fairly limited success in the following years, mainly in the claiming ranks, and his stable shrank at one point to just two or three horses. However, he slowly built up his client base, which came to include members of the Dubai royal family, Juddmonte Farms and Spendthrift Farm.

Cox earned his first graded stakes win in 2014 with Carve in the Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap. He noted that his early graded stakes winners were from the claiming ranks.

Cox’s reputation as an elite trainer began when Monomoy Girl joined his stable in 2017. She gave Cox his first Grade I win in the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland in 2018 and then became his first Eclipse Award winner after winning the Kentucky Oaks, Acorn Stakes, Coaching Club American Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Cox recorded his 1,000th win on November 18, 2018, with Play On.