Champagne Room wrapped up two-year-old filly championship honors when upsetting the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Santa Anita Park on November 5. That was only the second win of the year for the Peter […]
Arrogate arrived on the scene belatedly, making his stakes debut in late August, but left quite an impact in 2016 posting a record-setting win in the Travers (G1) and a scintillating victory over California Chrome […]
Songbird dominated her division, both as an Eclipse Award-winning two-year-old and now as the champion three-year-old filly. The Jerry Hollendorfer trainee brought an unbeaten record into her sophomore season and continued her winning ways in […]
Once he went out on own in late 2007, Chad Brown quickly rose up in the trainer ranks. And after leading all conditioners by earnings in 2016, the 39-year-old native of Mechanicville, New York was […]
The familiar Juddmonte Farms silks figured prominently on the U.S. racing landscape in 2016, with Arrogate recording major victories in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and Travers (G1) and Flintshire producing three graded stakes wins, […]
Beholder added yet another award to her trophy case when honored as the 2016 champion older dirt female of 2016 Saturday evening during the Eclipse Awards ceremony. The Kentucky-bred mare successfully defended her older female […]
Javier Castellano easily outpaced rivals by earnings once again in 2016, finishing more than $3 million clear of second with a $26,826,241 bankroll, and the 39-year-old journeyman was honored with his fourth straight Eclipse Award […]
Owner Irv Naylor and trainer Cyril Murphy, who celebrated an Eclipse Award victory by Dawalan a year ago, had the good fortune to campaign the country’s leading steeplechaser in 2016 as well. Rawnaq proved an […]
By two-time grass champion Gio Ponti and out of a mare by Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)-winning Horse of the Year Ghostzapper (who happened to be a pretty good miler, too), there wasn’t necessarily a genetic […]
Finest City captured just two races in 2016, but it was the latter of those, combined with no clear-cut division leader, that helped propel the chestnut daughter of City Zip to an Eclipse Award as […]
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