They won the titles of Champion 3-Year-Old Male and Champion 2-Year-Old Male, respectively, after a night with no surprises.
MIAMI, Florida (Special for Turf Diario) - Thorpedo Anna stole the show at the end of the 54th edition of the Eclipse Awards, the awards that recognize the best in the United States each season and that once again took place at The Breakers. With the daughter of Fast Anna taking the titles of Horse of the Year and Champion 3-Year-Old Female, there was a lot of interest in knowing which would be the winners among the foals, with all that this means in terms of projection and future in breeding.
Well, in the voting for Champion 3-Year-Old Male Sierra Leone ended up beating Fierceness (City of Lights) again, as it happened on the day of the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), although this time everything happened on the track. The son of Gun Runner, therefore, grandson of the Argentine crack Candy Ride, took 169 of the 208 votes against 34 of his rival and will now face 2025 wearing the crown.
Meanwhile, after his victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), the statuette as Champion 2-Year-Old Male went to Citizen Bull (Into Mischief), one of the top early contenders for the next Kentucky Derby (G1).
The title of Champion Older Dirt Male went to National Treasure (Quality Road), beating Argentina's Full Serrano (Full Mast), the only Breeders' Cup hero not to win a statuette, repeating the experience of Blue Prize (Pure Prize) a few years ago.
Idiomatic (Curlin) repeated his 2023 title and was crowned Champion Adult Dirt Mare; Moira (Ghostzapper) was Champion Adult Turf Mare; Immersive (Nyquist) won Champion 2-Year-Old Female; Rebel's Romance (Dubawi) was Champion Older Turf Horse; with Straight No Chaser (Speightster) and Soul of An Angel (Atreides) winning both divisions for sprinters, males and females.
Godolphin was Breeder and Owner of the Year, Chad Brown was crowned trainer, Flavien Prat was Jockey of the Year and Erik Asmussen was Apprentice of the Year. Finally, Snap Decision (Hard Spun) prevailed as Champion Steeplechaser.
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