Southern California, closed from last year Eclipse AwardsShe returned with three awards at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday in Palm Beach, Florida.
None of the prizes was a surprise, as two of the three winners won the educators in their last picnic.
Taurus citizen The winner of the two -year -old Eclipse was after winning his last race The junction cup for events And the American Pharaoh. He lost his second start, as he finished third in the Del Mar Futurity race, but he won his first race in Del Mar.
The purchase of 675 thousand dollars, which is headed by a union of owners including SF Racing and Starlight Racing, is the third preferred position in the Kentucky Dereby Group of 17-1, behind his stable colleague Barnes (6-1) and East Avenue (15-1). The winner of the future of educators at Kenland.
National treasureThe 2023 Preakness award, received the Older Dirt Male Award after winning PEGASUS and Met Mile. In his last race, he finished second in California Crown. It is also trained by BAFFERT and has most of the group that owns Citizen Bull.
He was the other local winner Straight, not the chaser For coach Dan Baker and owned by myracehorm, a royal group that sells small stakes of horses. The 5 -year -old Al -Jahsh won his last two races after moving to Blacker Barn by winning the Santa Anita Sprint and the Prides Sprain Cup. He won six out of 10 times.
The biggest winner of this night, the 4 -year -old skilled, the first horse to win since 2011 when Hafir De Grace was given this honor. Zenyatta won the award in 2010. Thorpedo Anna won the 3 -year -old skilled award in the only vote unanimously.
Coach Kenny McBIC said: “I have just started, and it will continue to run … It was a great journey,” said coach Kenny McBik.
The surprise was somewhat as Chad Brown’s victory for the Best Coach of this year over McBIC. Brown got the best numbers, but McBIC won the Kentucky Ox Race (Thorbido Anna) and Kentucky Derby (Mestic Dan) in successive days. Brown got 101 votes in first place and McBIC got 88 votes.
Although the Eclipse Committee announces the qualifiers for the final qualifiers for the first, second and third places, only first place voices are calculated in determining the winners.
Awards are voted by the National Turf Writers and Broadcasts Assn members, a group of journalists and advertising, some are driven by tracks, and the national Thoroughbred Racing Assn. And the daily race model. NTWAB only reveals its individual voting results. The Times does not vote in Eclipse Awards.
The other winners are: overwhelming (two -year -old skilled), Sierra Leone, winner of the Classical E Education, (male 3 years old), idiomatic (older female), the soul of an angel (female runner) and the romance of rebels (male grass horse ).
The former knight residing in southern California, Flavian Pratt won his first eclipse as the best knight.
