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Obscure Award Results: Another Banner Year for Brad Cox

The real issue heading into the Eclipse Award service was three year old of the year. In the end the citizens chose Essential Quality over polarizing Medina Spirit.

Overshadow Awards

Every year individuals from the NTRA vote on the year end Eclipse Awards. These honors recognize the first choice in every division of horse racing.

The entertainment ceremony was hung on February 10 at Santa Anita Park. 235 Of the 245 qualified citizens cast polling forms. Close to every victor's name you will see the quantity of first spot votes got.

Horse Eclipse Awards

Overshadow Award: Horse of the Year-Knicks Go (228 votes)

Coach: Brad Cox

Proprietor: Korea Racing Authority

2021 record: 7 beginnings - 5 successes - 0 seconds - 0 thirds

2021 income: $7,324,140

Recap: Knicks Go might have lost his last race in 2022, however his 2021 mission was ultra great. It began with a success in the 2021 Pegasus World Cup and finished with the Breeders' Cup Classic wherein he handily discarded Medina Spirit and Essential Quality. Knicks Go was resigned after the 2022 Pegasus World Cup.

Obscure Award: Champion Older Dirt Male-Knicks Go (232)

Likewise Horse of the Year

Obscure Award: Champion Older Dirt Female-Letruska (221)

Mentor: Fausto Gutierrez

Proprietor: St. George Stable

2021 record: 8 beginnings - 6 successes - 1 second - 0 thirds

2021 profit: $1,945,540

Recap: Letruska had a 5 race win 스마일벳 streak center of the year. During that time she amassed 4 grade 1 triumphs. One of the top exhibitions of the year arrived in a flat out toss down against the gifted Monomoy Girl.

Overshadow Award: Champion Male Turf Horse-Yibir (135)

Coach: Charles Appleby

Proprietor: Godolphin

2021 record: 8 beginnings - 4 successes - 1 second - 1 third

2021 profit: $2,878,083

Recap: This division can regularly boil down to the Breeder's Cup Turf as the most capable sprinters habitually come from abroad. That is the situation for Yibir who won 2 gathering stakes in Europe prior to swinging stateside to get the Jockey Club Derby and the Breeder's Cup Turf.

Overshadow Award: Champion Female Turf Horse-Loves Only You (136)

Coach: Yoshito Yahagi

Proprietor: DMM Dream Club Co.

2021 record: 6 beginnings - 4 successes - 1 second - 1 third

2021 profit: $6,424,772

Recap: Loves Only You was essential for a breakout season for the blooming Japanese horse racing market. Albeit the Japanese had some achievement transportation to America they had neglected to land a major score in the marquee American occasions. That changed for this present year when Loves Only You won the Filly and Mare Turf at the Breeders' Cup.

Coach: Brad Cox

Proprietor: Godolphin

2021 record: 7 beginnings - 5 successes - 0 seconds - 1 third

2021 profit: $3,420,000

Recap: Essential Quality returned to back getting the 2 year old and 3 year old pony of the year in consecutive seasons. This was one of the most dubious classes among the hustling public as Medina Spirit beat Essential Quality in both of their straight on occasions. In the end the citizens went with Essential Quality who won both the Belmont and the Travers. It is difficult to envision the shadow cast by Bob Baffert's medication embarrassment didn't assume at minimum some part in this classification being however unbalanced as it might have been.

Overshadow Award: Champion 3-Year-Old Filly-Malathaat (227)

Coach: Todd Pletcher

Proprietor: Shadwell Stable

2021 record: 5 beginnings - 3 successes - 1 second - 1 third

2021 income: $1,563,000

Recap: Malathaat might not have won the Breeder's Cup Distaff, the crown gem of this division. That being said her successes in the Alabama and the Kentucky Oaks made her more than meriting this lofty honor.

Obscure Award: Champion 2-Year-Old Male-Corniche (214)

Mentor: Bob Baffert

Proprietor: Speedway Stables

2021 record: 3 beginnings - 3 successes - 0 seconds - 0 thirds

2021 profit: $1,262,000

Recap: Anyone who needed to take a reasonable stand against Baffert for the 2021 Kentucky Derby contention essentially needed to keep away from this class. While the gently hustled Jack Christopher got twelve votes, Corniche was by a wide margin the most great 2 year old this season. Any expectations anybody had of changing this result lost it when Corniche traveled to a simple triumph in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. At present Corniche is ineligible for the Kentucky Derby because of being prepared by Bob Baffert.

Obscure Award: Champion 2-Year-Old Filly-Echo Zulu (233)

Mentor: Steven Asmussen

Proprietors: L and N Racing and Winchell Thoroughbreds

2021 record: 4 beginnings - 4 successes - 0 seconds - 0 thirds

2021 profit: $1,480,000

Recap: Echo Zulu was the in vogue "bet against" horse in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Any bettor who attempted that was adequately stuffed in a storage as she destroyed the field easily. Following successes in the Spinaway and the Frizette, this division was in little uncertainty. Reverberation Zulu brought home the most in front of the rest of the competition votes of any of the champs.

Obscure Award: Champion Male Sprinter-Jackie's Warrior (110)

Mentor: Steven Asmussen

Proprietors: J. Kirk Robison and Judy Robison

2021 record: 7 beginnings - 4 successes - 1 second - 1 thirds

2021 income: $1,051,400

Recap: Jackie's Warrior shown astounding brightness in transit to winning the Amsterdam and the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial. The last option was one of the top stretch duals of the year with Jackie's Warrior bouncing head in head with Life is Good the whole length of the stretch prior to winning.

Obscure Award: Champion Female Sprinter Ce (136)

Mentor: Michael McCarthy

Proprietor: Bo Hirsch

2021 record: 6 beginnings - 4 successes - 0 seconds - 1 third

2021 profit: $888,000

Recap: 2021 genuinely took care of Michael McCarthy who won the Preakness with Rombauer and afterward the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf with Ce. Ce additionally won the Princess Rooney Invitational prior in the year.

Obscure Award: Steeplechase Horse-The Mean Queen (210)

The Mean Queen won the 2021 Steeplechase Eclipse Award.

The Mean Queen won the 2021 Steeplechase Eclipse Award.

Mentor: Keri Brion

Proprietor: Buttonwood Farm

2021 record: 8 beginnings - 6 successes - 1 second - 0 thirds

2021 profit: $312,293

Recap: The Mean Queen acquired acknowledgment among many horse racing fans this late spring during the steeplechase occasions that regularly started off the cards on the NYRA circuit. The vibe great story of this refined pony was winning the Jonathan Sheppard. Coach Keri Brion was guided by Sheppard as a piece of his group prior to going off all alone to prepare.

Associations Eclipse Awards

Obscure Award: Outstanding Jockey-Joel Rosario (213)

Joel Rosario won the 2021 Jockey of the Year Eclipse Award.

Joel Rosario won the 2021 Jockey of the Year Eclipse Award.

2021 successes: 228

2021 profit: $35,421,978

First choices: Knicks Go, Echo Zulu, Gufo, Jackie's Warrior, and Malathaat

Recap: When 4 of the ponies you ride are given Eclipse Awards, you realize you are probable ready to bring one down for yourself. That was the situation for Joel Rosario who rode the Horse of the Year, 2 Year Old Filly of the Year, Older Male Sprinter of the Year, and 3 Year Old Filly of the Year. Sadly, this year might in any case be somewhat of a mistake as Rosario had dead point on records for stakes wins 윈윈벳 in a year prior to a physical issue wrecked the most recent few months of the period for him.

Overshadow Award: Outstanding Apprentice Jockey-Jessica Pyfer (156)

Jessica Pyfer won the 2021 Apprentice Jockey Eclipse Award

Jessica Pyfer won the 2021 Apprentice Jockey Eclipse Award

2021 successes: 59

2021 profit: $2,857,333

Recap: This year's harvest of Eclipse Award student riders wasn't awfully solid. In the end the electors went with Jessica Pyfer who amassed 59 successes on the southern California circuit.

Overshadow Award: Outstanding Trainer-Brad Cox (189)

Cox (left) wins consecutive preparation Eclipse Awards.

Cox (left) wins consecutive preparation Eclipse Awards.

2021 successes: 269

2021 income: $31,832,345

First choices: Knicks Go, Essential Quality, Mandaloun, and Shedaresthedevil

Recap: Cox returned to back subsequent to winning the preparation Eclipse Award the year before. In 2021 he set the single year procuring record. His charges won the Pegasus World Cup, the Belmont Stakes, The Travers, and the Breeder's Cup Classic. He may likewise be in line to maneuver into a Kentucky Derby triumph assuming Medina Spirit at last gets precluded. His sprinter Mandaloun completed second in that race.

Obscure Award: Outstanding Owner-Godolphin (216)

Godolphin was granted both proprietor and reproducer of the year at the Eclipse Awards.

2021 successes: 84

2021 income: $17,403,204

First choices: Essential Quality, Yibir, Maxfield, Mystic Guide, Modern Games, and Althiqa

Recap: Sheik Mohammed receptacle Rashid al-Maktoum, the leader of Dubai, has for some time been a prevailing power in European hustling. Nonetheless, the Sheik has placed a reiteration of assets into progressing that strength to American dashing too. 2021 was a major advance forward in satisfying that vision with large numbers of the top more seasoned ponies on American soil wearing the brand name Godolphin blue silks. Their ponies scored 2 Eclipse Awards this year including 3 Year Old Male and Male Turf pony of Year.

Obscure Award: Outstanding Breeder-Godolphin (205)

2021 successes: 136

2021 income: $18,447,150

Additionally Outstanding Owner.