Eclipse Awards Dinner News Today

Eclipse Award voters, especially when it comes to making a decision on Steeplechase Horse of the Year, are a fickle lot. Arch Kingsley knew that long and well before he

After a breakout 2022, highlighted by riding titles at Will Rogers Downs and Prairie Meadows, Jordan will learn Saturday morning if her resume was strong enough to be named one of three finalists for an Eclipse Award as the country’s outstanding apprentice jockey.

Share Ack Ack is too good in America’s richest race of 1971, the $175,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. Photo: Keeneland Library His name is all but forgotten, marginalized after half a century’s worth of racing lore. The most important people in his life are long dead. Painting him with the colors of the modern Thoroughbred palette is impossible. He was a freak, a dinosaur, the kind of creature that flew through children’s dreams, and for a glorious seven months of 1971, he was almost too good ...