The leading 10 horses are unchanged in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll following a week of stakes action in which none of the top-ranked horses raced. Voting from week 33 of the poll followed racing performances through Sept. 7.
Remaining in first is the Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Travers Stakes (G1) winner—Godolphin's star 3-year-old Sovereignty. The Bill Mott trainee leads over a pair of 4-year-olds: second-ranked Fierceness, who shipped west to win the Aug. 30 Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) at Del Mar in his last start, and Mindframe, who won his first three races this year, all in stakes, before unseating jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. when fouled early in a roughly contested Aug. 31 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. Todd Pletcher trains that duo.
Sovereignty received 26 first-place votes, down one from last week due to one fewer voter participating in the poll. Four-year-olds Mindframe and Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year, received the other first-place votes, two and one, respectively. Thorpedo Anna is fifth overall in the voting, one spot behind Sierra Leone, last year's Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner.
The NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, voting for which is conducted by national media, represents Thoroughbreds competing for Horse of the Year. The poll concludes Nov. 4, a few days after the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships this fall at Del Mar.
The full poll and votes by voter can be found online.
