Todd Pletcher owns seven trophies as Eclipse Award winner for outstanding trainer. He enjoyed a season in 2022 that put him in the running for an eighth.

When factoring in earnings on the Dubai World Cup and Saudi Cup cards, Pletcher led his North American peers on the money list last season. His mounts earned more than $31 million while winning events such as the Belmont Stakes, Breeders’ Cup Distaff and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Here is a look at the top 10 trainers of 2022 in terms of earnings.

1. Todd Pletcher, $31.08 million

Notable 2022 wins: Belmont Stakes, Belmont Park, Mo Donegal; Breeders’ Cup Distaff, Keeneland, Malathaat; Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Keeneland, Forte; Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1), Gulfstream Park, Life Is Good; Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes (G1), Gulfstream Park, Colonel Liam

The New York-based Pletcher added another chapter to his successes in the Empire State’s biggest race, winning his fourth Belmont Stakes. The Pletcher-trained duo of Mo Donegal and Nest – both wearing the silks of owner Mike Repole – ran 1-2. Forte (2-year-old male), Malathaat (older dirt female), and Nest (3-year-old Female) all won three Grade 1 races apiece and are heavy favorites in their respective Eclipse Award divisions. Life Is Good also racked up a trio of Grade 1 wins, including an in-hand Pegasus score ahead of 2021 Horse of the Year Knicks Go.

2. Chad Brown, $31.06 million

Notable 2022 wins: Preakness Stakes, Pimlico, Early Voting; Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, Keeneland, Goodnight Olive; Blue Grass Stakes (G1), Keeneland, Zandon; Manhattan Stakes (G1), Belmont Park, Tribhuvan; First Lady Stakes (G1), Keeneland, In Italian

On the track, Brown’s earnings were $25,575 shy of Pletcher’s for first place on this list. When looking only to races that occurred on North American soil, Brown ranked ahead of Pletcher by $574,425. Brown won the Preakness Stakes for the second time with Early Voting and secured the 16th Breeders’ Cup triumph of his career thanks to Goodnight Olive. Away from the track, Brown, who was arrested in August on a charge of criminal obstruction of breathing, pleaded guilty in November to a charge of harassment.

3. Steve Asmussen, $30.96 million

Notable 2022 wins: Travers Stakes (G1), Saratoga, Epicenter; Cotillion Stakes (G1), Parx, Society; Churchill Downs Stakes (G1), Churchill Downs, Jackie’s Warrior; La Troienne Stakes (G1), Churchill Downs, Pauline’s Pearl; Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1), Saratoga, Clairiere

Asmussen, the winningest trainer in North American racing history, led his peers last season with 382 victories. He nearly won his first Kentucky Derby with Epicenter, but the Derby favorite was passed late in the stretch by rail-running long shot Rich Strike. Two starts after another runner-up finish in the Preakness, Epicenter scored a convincing Travers Stakes win. The Asmussen-trained Jackie’s Warrior could take a second straight champion male sprinter award after winning the Churchill Downs Stakes and Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1).

4. Brad Cox, $24.15 million

Notable 2022 wins: Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Keeneland, Caravel; Arkansas Derby (G1), Oaklawn Park, Cyberknife; Haskell Stakes (G1), Monmouth Park, Cyberknife; Acorn Stakes (G1), Belmont Park, Matareya; Madison Stakes (G1), Keeneland, Just One Time

Cox, two-time defending Eclipse Award winner for outstanding trainer, enjoyed his second straight season with more than $20 million in earnings. He won at least one Breeders’ Cup event for the fifth year in a row thanks to Caravel, who notched a front-running Turf Sprint score as a 42-1 shot. Caravel was the only U.S.-based horse to win any of the seven turf races during the 2022 Breeders’ Cup. Cyberknife became Cox’s top dirt runner last season, beating fellow multiple-Grade 1 winners Jack Christopher and Taiba in the Haskell.

5. Bob Baffert, $21.09 million

Notable 2022 wins: Dubai World Cup (G1), Meydan Racecourse, Country Grammer; Pennsylvania Derby (G1), Parx, Taiba; Beholder Mile Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, As Time Goes By; La Brea Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, Fun to Dream; American Pharoah Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, Cave Rock

Baffert was absent last May from Churchill Downs, serving a two-year suspension handed down by the track after Medina Spirit’s failed drug test following the 2021 Kentucky Derby. Former Baffert assistant Tim Yakteen assumed training duties for his old boss’s Derby prospects Messier and Taiba, both of whom missed the board on the first Saturday in May. Baffert’s dual Grade 1 winner Cave Rock emerged as a top 2023 Derby hopeful but, barring a change to the Churchill suspension, must change barns to earn qualifying points. The Hall of Fame trainer’s biggest win last season came overseas at Meydan Racecourse, where Country Grammer became his fourth Dubai World Cup hero.

6. Bill Mott, $17.19 million

Notable 2022 wins: Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Keeneland, Elite Power; Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Keeneland, Cody’s Wish; Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1), Saratoga, Olympiad; Derby City Distaff Stakes (G1), Churchill Downs, Obligatory; Forego Stakes (G1), Saratoga, Cody’s Wish

Mott won multiple races in a single Breeders’ Cup for the second time in his career and the first time since 2011. Elite Power took the final five starts of his season, climbing from a fourth-out maiden win to a Sprint triumph. Cody’s Wish finished the year on a four-race winning streak of his own, upsetting Jackie’s Warrior in the Forego before winning the Dirt Mile. Mott also took a shot at the Breeders’ Cup Turf with mare War Like Goddess, whose third-place effort was best of any U.S.-trained starter.

7. Mike Maker, $16.51 million

Notable 2022 wins: Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes (G2), Kentucky Downs, Red Knight; American Turf Stakes (G2), Churchill Downs, Stolen Base, Mac Diarmada Stakes (G2), Gulfstream Park, Temple; Mint Million Stakes (G3), Kentucky Downs, Somelikeithotbrown; Miss Preakness Stakes (G3), Pimlico, Lady Scarlet

Maker continued his dominance of Kentucky Downs’s boutique late-summer stand, posting a single-meet record 12 wins to earn a record-extending seventh training title. Red Knight highlighted Maker’s meet there, finishing a nose clear of Gufo to win the Kentucky Turf Cup as a 12-1 shot. Maker’s other successes in the Bluegrass State included a win on the Kentucky Derby undercard with American Turf victor Stolen Base. Maker has posted his career-best earnings total in four straight seasons, improving from $14.95 million earned in 2021 to $16.51 million in 2022.

8. Mark Casse, $15.49 million

Notable 2022 wins: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Keeneland, Wonder Wheel; Alcibiades Stakes (G1), Keeneland, Wonder Wheel; King Edward Stakes (G2), Woodbine, Filo Di Arianna; Canadian Stakes (G2), Woodbine, Fev Rover; Bessarabian Stakes (G2), Woodbine, Our Flash Drive

Casse trained the likely champion 2-year-old filly of 2022 in Wonder Wheel, who posted back-to-back Grade 1 wins at Keeneland. After nipping Chop Chop by a nose in the Alcibiades, Wonder Wheel rallied from 11th of 13 to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies by three lengths. Casse’s Breeders’ Cup win was his sixth overall and first since Shamrock Rose took the 2018 Filly & Mare Sprint. North of the U.S.-Canada border, Casse led all Woodbine trainers in wins (119) and earnings ($7.5 million).

9. Phil D’Amato, $11.95 million

Notable 2022 wins: Shoemaker Mile Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, Count Again; Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, Count Again; American Oaks (G1), Santa Anita, Rhea Moon; Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1), Santa Anita, Going to Vegas; Santa Anita Oaks (G2), Santa Anita, Desert Dawn

D’Amato cracked the top 10 of the trainer earnings list for the first time thanks to a prolific year in Southern California. Of the 23 graded stakes that D’Amato’s runners won in 2022, 21 of them came at Del Mar or Santa Anita. D’Amato swept training titles last season at both Santa Anita meets and both Del Mar meets. Count Again was a dual Grade 1 winner for D’Amato, with both those wins coming at eight furlongs over the Santa Anita turf.

10. Jamie Ness, $10.32 million

Notable 2022 wins: Maryland Million Classic Stakes, Laurel Park, Ournationonparade; Maryland Million Lassie Stakes, Laurel Park, Chickieness; Tax Free Shopping Distaff Stakes, Delaware Park, Philadelphia Belle; Let’s Give Thanks Stakes, Parx, Repo Rocks

Ness has long been one of North America’s winningest trainers, training primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. In 2022, Ness tallied 326 wins, ranking behind only Asmussen (382) and Karl Broberg (372) in that category. Ness crossed the $10 million earnings mark for the first time and made a breakthrough appearance in the top 10 of the earnings list. The biggest win of Ness’s season came in the Maryland Million Classic Stakes when Ournationonparade backed up his 2-1 favoritism with a 5 3/4-length romp.