Top Ranked Horses
The following table shows the top ranked horses overall, the top three-year-olds, the top older horses and the top fillies and mares in the 2008 Rankings. It also shows the leading performers in various subdivisions of each group, which are defined by the distances of races, and the surfaces on which they are run.
| All Horses | ||||||
| All Surfaces | Dirt / Artificial | Turf | ||||
| All Distances | 130 | Curlin New Approach |
130 | Curlin | 130 | New Approach |
| Sprint | 123 | Midnight Lute Sacred Kingdom |
123 | Midnight Lute | 123 | Sacred Kingdom |
| Mile | 130 | Curlin | 130 | Curlin | 127 | Raven's Pass |
| Intermediate | 130 | Curlin New Approach |
130 | Curlin | 130 | New Approach |
| Long | 128 | Zarkava | 118 | Da' Tara | 128 | Zarkava |
| Extended | 122 | Conduit Septimus Yeats |
not listed | 122 | Conduit Septimus Yeats |
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| Three-Year-Olds | ||||||
| All Surfaces | Dirt / Artificial | Turf | ||||
| All Distances | 130 | New Approach | 129 | Raven's Pass | 130 | New Approach |
| Sprint | 122 | Weekend Hussler | 119 | Fatal Bullet | 122 | Weekend Hussler |
| Mile | 127 | Raven's Pass | 122 | Big Brown | 127 | Raven's Pass |
| Intermediate | 130 | New Approach | 129 | Raven's Pass | 130 | New Approach |
| Long | 128 | Zarkava | 118 | Da' Tara | 128 | Zarkava |
| Extended | 122 | Conduit | not listed | 122 | Conduit | |
| Older Horses | ||||||
| All Surfaces | Dirt / Artificial | Turf | ||||
| All Distances | 130 | Curlin | 130 | Curlin | 127 | Duke of Marmalade |
| Sprint | 123 | Midnight Lute Sacred Kingdom |
123 | Midnight Lute | 123 | Sacred Kingdom |
| Mile | 130 | Curlin | 130 | Curlin | 124 | Good Ba Ba |
| Intermediate | 130 | Curlin | 130 | Curlin | 127 | Duke of Marmalade |
| Long | 126 | Duke of Marmalade | 115 | Muhannak | 126 | Duke of Marmalade |
| Extended | 122 | Septimus Yeats |
not listed | 122 | Septimus Yeats |
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| Fillies and Mares | ||||||
| All Surfaces | Dirt / Artificial | Turf | ||||
| All Distances | 128 | Zarkava | 125 | Zenyatta | 128 | Zarkava |
| Sprint | 118 | Ventura | 118 | Ventura | 115 | African Rose Fleeting Spirit Seachange |
| Mile | 125 | Goldikova Zenyatta |
125 | Zenyatta | 125 | Goldikova |
| Intermediate | 125 | Zarkava | 118 | Ginger Punch Hystericalady Music Note Proud Spell |
125 | Zarkava |
| Long | 128 | Zarkava | not listed | 128 | Zarkava | |
| Extended | not listed | not listed | not listed | |||
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