Last year, Pletcher set records for stakes victories, with 100, and purse earnings, of $26.8 million.

Cherokee's Boy has won 6 of 12 starts, including five stakes victories, with earnings of $414,929.

He had career earnings of $1,243,947 and a total of nine stakes victories.

Lost Code himself was not nominated to the series because his first stakes victory came 11 days after the nomination deadline.

It also was her third straight stakes victory.

He registered 24 stakes victories including 14 Grade 1 wins.

He has $878,355 in career earnings, but this was his first graded stakes victory.

For Bailey, it was his seventh stakes victory of the season.

In 1998 she suffered through a 70-race losing streak and ended the year without a stakes victory.

They also may try him on dirt in the coming weeks, where a stakes victory would enhance his reputation and value.