Cutting’s star continues to rise

Driver Jacob Cutting, 22, continues to impress both on and off the track. The Alberta native just completed his first $1 million year, achieving that plateau off the strength of a very impressive season at Running Aces in 2023, where he won 60 races and had 171 top-three finishes from 413 trips to the gate, while banking $785,175 in purses.

Overall for the year, Cutting won 113 races from 690 starts. He currently has 394 career wins and 1,140 top-three finishes.

Cutting first burst onto the Running Aces scene back in 2020 at age 19 and made a big impression in his first year in Minnesota, finishing in the top-four in a talented driving colony and also becoming the youngest driver to ever win a Minnesota Championship event.

In 2021 he won 60 races at Running Aces and finished in the top-three and that year he won four Minnesota Championship events.

Cutting ventured east for 2022 but returned to Aces in 2023 where he solidified his status as a continually rising star, as well as a fan favorite and a highly sought-after driver for many local trainers.

Cutting is currently competing at Cal Expo and that is where he eclipsed the $1 million mark for the 2023 season, passing that mark on Dec. 29. For good measure, Cutting proceeded to add an exclamation point to his 2023 season by posting five wins on the Dec. 30 card in Sacramento to close out his 2023 campaign.