Forget about Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen building a new wing in his home for all his awards in racing. He eventually will need another house just for his trophies from Remington Park.

Asmussen won his unprecedented 19th training title in the recently concluded season and his first-call rider, Stewart Elliott, won his second Remington Park riding title in a row. They both won by Secretariat margins of victory. They solidified the axiom of, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Leading jockey: Stewart Elliott, Pat Steinberg Award

“I’m fortunate really to win this at this stage of my career,” said Elliott, who will turn 60 years old on March 1. “Hey, when you ride for Steve Asmussen, you always have a chance to win.”

The thing that makes Elliott’s 37-win victory margin (91-54) over runner-up Floyd Wethey Jr. so impressive this year is that when he started his fifth season of riding at Remington Park, he was coming off a three-month layoff. The forced vacation was due to fracturing a bone in his pelvis earlier in the summer.

Elliott began his riding career in 1981 and won the 2004 Kentucky Derby aboard Smarty Jones in his top spotlight moment. He became the sixth jockey since 2014 to win as many as 90 races during a meet at Remington Park. His 91 this meet was the most since David Cabrera won 96 in 2020. Cabrera has passed the 90-win mark three of those six times since 2014, when he won four riding titles at Remington Park from 2018 to 2021. Ramon Vazquez has the other two seasons with at least 90 wins, in 2014 and 2017.

Elliott piled up 10 riding triples during the season, and he won twice on the same program on 16 other race dates.

Elliott’s horses earned an amazing $2,215,599 during the meet, and that was good enough for third-best all-time. Only Cabrera’s two incredible years of 2018 and 2021 bested that with bankrolls of $2,377,944 and $2,274,027, respectively.

“I’m grateful that I get to ride for Steve Asmussen,” said Elliott. “My agent, Scott Hare, does a great job getting me on all these horses. It’s all good. I love it.”

Remington Park’s leading jockey award is named after the late Pat Steinberg, who dominated the colony at the track from 1989 until his death after the 1993 spring season.

Leading trainer: Steve Asmussen, Chuck Taliaferro Award

Asmussen always gives credit where the credit is due to his assistant Pablo Ocampo, who handles his string of horses at Remington Park.

Asmussen and Ocampo didn’t have to look over their shoulders much this meet as that barn won the training title in wins, 60-28, over runner-up and Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Famer Joe Offolter.

Asmussen has won the title 16 of the last 18 years. Karl Broberg won the Taliaferro in 2022 and in 2015. You have to go back to 2006 to Von Hemel to find another trainer on that list.

Asmussen’s horses earned $1,681,517 this season, good for fifth on the all-time bankroll list behind Asmussen’s top four meets. The top 10 in this category are all Asmussen. You have to go down to 11th place to find another trainer, Broberg, with $1,119,986 in 2022.

The leading trainer award is named for Taliaferro, a two-time leading trainer at Remington Park in the formative years of the track and a fellow Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Famer.

Asmussen also has won more races in this sport than any other trainer in North American racing history, 10,740 through Dec. 15, 2024, according to Equibase statistics. Asmussen passed the 1,300-win mark at Remington Park on the final night of the season on Dec. 13, ending with 1,302.

Asmussen was the only trainer to win four races on one program this season, accomplishing the quadruple on Springboard Mile night, the final race card of the meet. He had 16 training doubles this season. He also posted one training triple.

Leading owner: Bryan Hawk, Ran Ricks Jr. Award

In the owner’s race a new face emerged with Bryan Hawk of Shawnee, Okla., winning the Ran Ricks Jr. Award for the first time in his career as an owner and breeder in Oklahoma.

“That’s the easy part, winning it,” Hawk said. “Staying there is a different story. I need to thank Joe Offolter (Hawk’s trainer) and just a lot of people who are behind me, everybody. My farm, they all work their butts off there. This has been a five-year process for me. I couldn’t be happier.”

Hawk won the race 24 wins to 18 over runner-up owner-trainer-breeder Dick Cappellucci. Hawk started 110 horses, and Cappellucci started only 26 that he owned. The runner-up winning at a 69% clip was astonishing but he could not catch Hawk.

Hawk’s horses earned $827,302 for the third best mark in history at Remington Park, behind only the all-time winningest owner here, Danny Caldwell of Poteau, Okla., who holds the top two spots. Caldwell’s horses earned $862,830 in 2016 and $856,635 in 2015. To exemplify how dominant Hawk’s season was, the runner-up in money earned this meet for owners was Winchell Thoroughbreds of Las Vegas, an Asmussen client whose horses took home $326,371.

Hawk posted numerous stakes victories this season, capping the meet with C W Prize winning the Jeffrey Hawk Memorial, a race named in honor of Bryan’s brother who died in 2017.