Jockey Flavien Prat earned his 1,000th win in North America and got started on his second thousand when winning the first three races on Friday’s card at Santa Anita. He won once with two other mounts later on the card. Prat got the milestone victory in race 2 aboard 3-5 favorite Clockstrikestwelve, who split horses at midstretch and got up in time in the 6 1/2-furlong race. He had won the opener, a maiden route turf race, with another odds-on favorite, Du Jour, and came back in race 3, a turf sprint, to win with 2-1 Luvluv. “I thought I had some good chances in the first race and the second race. It’s nice to get it done,” Prat told Millie Ball on Santa Anita’s simulcast show. Prat, 28, is a native of France who won 296 races there, most notably the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac in 2013, before committing full-time to the United States. He had spent several winters the early part of his career in Southern California, primarily working for trainer Richard Mandella. Prat has ascended to the top of the Southern California standings, with multiple riding titles at Santa Anita – including the last two winter meetings – and Del Mar, where he has won four of the last five summer seasons. :: Want to get your Past Performances for free? Click to learn more. His biggest win came via disqualification in the Kentucky Derby in 2019. Prat also has won three Breeders’ Cup races, and the 2019 Queen’s Plate. Prat has been on a tear over the past week or so while vaulting to the top of the jockey standings at this Santa Anita meeting. His natural hat trick in the first three races Friday gave him 10 wins from his last 16 mounts and 14 wins from his last 31. Prat had been represented in North America by agent Derek Lawson, whom Prat fired last week, though Lawson had his mounts booked through this Sunday. Prat is now represented by Brad Pegram, who begins his tenure with Prat officially with the races of Friday, Feb. 26, start of the new condition book.