The first round of final Breeders’ Cup preps this past weekend went some way toward putting several Eclipse Award categories into sharper focus. The two divisions with seemingly firm favorites are turf female and three-year-old […]
The result of Saturday’s Pennsylvania Derby (G1) appeared to answer one question while at the same time provoking spirited rebukes from certain quarters that another was also, virtually, settled. Following up a wire-to-wire, 3 1/4-length […]
The moon coming between Earth and the sun isn’t the only Eclipse talk that should be occurring Monday, at least not after watching Arrogate go down to a second consecutive defeat in Saturday’s Pacific Classic […]
The last two decades has seen the Eclipse Award electorate get creative with its some of its year-end selections, asserting its independence from precedents set by voters of yesteryear and at times downplaying or ignoring […]
Always Dreaming’s lack of support as the top-three-year-old male is a sad commentary from a fan base that laments horses not running enough each year and/or beyond a certain age while damning potential superstar horses […]
Observers hoping that some clarity in the three-year-old male division would result from this weekend’s Jim Dandy (G2) and Haskell Invitational (G1) had to have been as thrilled as the connections of the top two […]
This year’s Test of a Champion is unlikely to crown one for the first half of the year, but a win in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park could help tip the scales […]
Two-time champion turf mare Tepin, a top-level winner in three countries who became a rare U.S.-trained winner of a Group 1 race at Royal Ascot last June when taking the Queen Anne (G1) on opening […]
It certainly didn’t require waiting for Saturday night’s Eclipse Award announcements to make plain what many of us already knew: 2016 was a vintage year for Thoroughbreds on the American turf. But now that the […]
California Chrome culminated a fantastic 5-year-old campaign with his second Horse of the Year title in three years, being honored as Thoroughbred racing’s leading performer during Saturday’s Eclipse Award ceremonies at Gulfstream Park. With a […]
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