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How It Works: A Detailed Look At How Eclipse Award Winners Are Chosen Sponsored by: This is the first piece in an occasional series designed to address reader questions about the way things in racing work – regulatory and business processes, technology, and more. Today, were kicking off the series with an explanation of the voting process for the Eclipse Awards. The process for choosing Eclipse Award finalists and winners varies slightly between award types. The winners of awards g...

Sponsored by: The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Authentics stirring triumph in the 146th Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve has been voted the 2020 FanDuel Racing-NTRA Moment of the Year based on the results of 3,403 votes cast via Twitter and an online poll. The winning moment occurred on September 5, 2020 at 7:05 p.m. ET on a day that saw the Run for the Roses contested without fans at Churchill Downs due to the coronavirus pandemic. ...

50th Annual Eclipse Awards To Be Presented Virtually, Program Will Air Live On Jan. 28 Sponsored by: by NTRA | 01.26.2021 | 11:53am The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, National Turf Writers and Broadcasters and Daily Racing Form announced today that the 50th Annual Eclipse Awards, presented by Spendthrift Farm, will air live on TVG and Racetrack Television Network on Thursday, Jan. 28, beginning at 8 p.m. ET., and also streamed on other outlets and platforms. This years cer...

Essential Quality-led Derby leaderboard bracing for more steady changes Jan 23, 2021 Vance Hanson/Brisnet.com ESSENTIAL QUALITY (Coady Photography) The 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) is less than 100 days away, but the current leaderboard looks as you might expect through the third week in January -- not overly indicative of how things will look a month from now much less three. Essential Quality, who is expected to be announced as the 2020 champion juvenile colt at this weeks Eclipse Awards...

Enthusiasm For Dispersals Energizes Day Two Of Keeneland January Sale Sponsored by: Hip 587, Danceforthecause from the Sam-Son Farm Dispersal, brings $925,000 at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. Two prominent dispersals – 20 broodmares, yearlings and horses of racing age sold by Lanes End, agent for the Complete Dispersal of the Estate of Paul P. Pompa Jr., and 21 in-foal broodmares owned by Sam-Son Farm, the acclaimed breed-to-race operation in Ontario – fueled bris...

Juddmonte Farms Owner Prince Khalid Bin Abdullah Al Saud Dies Sponsored by: Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud, owner of of Juddmonte Farms. Prince Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and master of Juddmonte Farms, died Tuesday, per a Juddmonte release. Though his father, a half-brother to King Abdulaziz, was a horse owner, he did not keep a racing stable. Instead, Prince Khalids interest in horse racing came during a trip with friends to France in 1956, that incl...

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 ...

Likely Eclipse Award Finalist Crispin Achieves Second Consecutive Four-Win Day At Laurel Park Sponsored by: Alexander Crispin Five-pound apprentice Alexander Crispin, expected to be among the Eclipse Award finalists when they are announced later this month, registered his second consecutive four-win day Friday at Laurel Park. The 22-year-old native of Puerto Rico, who went four-for-eight during Laurels last live program Jan. 3, won four of the last five races Friday. Crispin began his...

NBC, TDN, Evers Honored With Eclipse Awards For Television, Multimedia, Photography Work Sponsored by: September 5, 2020: The field for the 2020 Kentucky Derby races in front of an empty grandstand due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 05, 2020. Evers/Eclipse Sportswire/CSM The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters today announced the winners of the 2020 Media Eclipse Aw...

Sponsored by: Natalie Voss and Jitterbug, her trusted Thoroughbred-Percheron cross The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters today announced the winners of the 2020 Media Eclipse Awards in six categories. This years awards are highlighted by Natalie Voss, Editor-in-Chief of the Paulick Report, becoming the first individual to win two writing award categories in the same year since the late Bill Nack earned two awa...