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Eclipse Awards

Toss-up? This year’s U.S. 3-year-old champion male

The last time three different horses won the U.S. Triple Crown races, none of them won the award for champion 3-year-old male. That honor went to Will Take Charge, a horse that finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby, seventh in the Preakness, and 10th in the Belmont Stakes. But he got good — really good…

September 29, 2016 in Eclipse Awards.

California Chrome is Horse of the Year, & Durkin is the highlight

He won six straight races from December 2013 to May 2014, including the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and while California Chrome won only once in four races in the second half of the year, Eclipse Award voters found his campaign worthy of Thoroughbred racing’s highest honor, giving him the Eclipse Award for 2014 Horse…

January 18, 2015 in Eclipse Awards.

With Malibu Win, Is Shared Belief Back in the Conversation For an Eclipse Award?

Returning to the track over which he suffered his only career loss, Shared Belief pushed his earnings over the $2 million mark in winning the Grade 1 Malibu at Santa Anita Park Friday. Owned by a partnership group that includes sports radio personality Jim Rome and his wife Janet, Shared Belief was making his first…

December 27, 2014 in Eclipse Awards.

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