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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 Khalid's interest in horse racing came during a trip with friends to France in 1956, that included a visit to Longchamp Racecourse. He didn't own racehorses himself until 1977, but over the cou...

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 to be true. His name was Ack Ack. There have been 50 years of Eclipse Awards history since the repre...

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 Laurel's last live program Jan. 3, won four of the last five races Friday. Crispin began his run with Michel Scheffres' Maryland-bred gelding Sue Loves Barbados ($8.80) in Race 8, a waiver ma...

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 Awards in six categories. This year's awards are highlighted by Natalie Voss, Editor-in-Chief of the ...

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 year's 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 awards in 1991. The 2020 Media Eclipse Award winners are as follows: Feature/Commentary Writing – N...