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 […]
Having tasted Kentucky Derby (G1) success with Monarchos in 2001, owner John Oxley will hope to add a second with the more precocious Classic Empire, who heads into this year’s classic trail the favorite after […]
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 […]
Last winter, the Juddmonte brain trust had the clever idea to base Flintshire (GB) in the United States for his 2016 campaign, and the masterstroke yielded him an Eclipse Award as champion turf male. Flintshire […]
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