Mitole – 2019 Champion Male Sprinter
Mitole capped a 6-for-7 season and a terrific 10-for-14 lifetime career with a 1 1/4-length score in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, beating his younger and favored rival Shancelot. […]
Eclipse Awards
Covfefe – 2019 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly & Champion Female Sprinter
Arguably one of the swiftest female sprint champions of the 2010s, Covfefe was also judged the best of her age group overall when no standout emerged from the traditional route events that typically go far […]
Vino Rosso – 2019 Champion Older Dirt Male
Vino Rosso showed promise early in his career when on the Triple Crown trail, but the classy chestnut horse did not put it all together until his 4-year-old season. After finishing first in three Grade […]
Midnight Bisou – 2019 Champion Older Dirt Female
A nearly perfect season ensured that Midnight Bisou would be voted champion older dirt female. Indeed, despite her winning skein coming to an end in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1), the Steve Asmussen mare still […]
Uni – 2019 Champion Turf Female
A Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) victory propelled Uni to the champion turf female title, giving trainer Chad Brown a sweep of the turf awards led by Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar. Uni’s lifetime […]
Storm the Court – 2019 Champion 2-Year-Old Male
In a year which resembled 2003 in that no male juvenile truly separated himself from the rest, Storm the Court emerged as a default choice by many for winning the division’s signature event, the Breeders’ […]
British Idiom – 2019 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly
Continuing the vice-like grip of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winners in the Eclipse Awards balloting, unbeaten British Idiom was honored as divisional champion in a landslide vote. British Idiom’s lifetime past performances courtesy of […]
Winston C – 2019 Champion Steeplechaser
Although not often replicable elsewhere and vice versa, the Saratoga form last summer of Winston C was enough to propel the 5-year-old gelding to champion steeplechaser honors for owner Hudson River Farm and Hall of […]
Chad Brown – 2019 Outstanding Trainer
After another banner season in 2019, Chad Brown received his fourth consecutive Eclipse Award for outstanding trainer. He established a new North American earnings record of $31,112,144, and trained 20 Grade 1 winners. Brown won […]
Irad Ortiz Jr. – 2019 Outstanding Jockey; Kazushi Kimura – 2019 Outstanding Apprentice Jockey
Irad Ortiz Jr. established a new single-season earnings record ($34,109,019) for North American jockeys in 2019, smashing the previous mark by becoming the first to exceed $30 million, and the 27-year-old native of Puerto Rico […]