In game Thread THE ECLIPSE AWARDS 8est

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The Eclipse Awards, Horse racing version of the academy awards starts shortly. Live coverage is available at hrtv or via a link at www.drf.com.

Post your comments in this thread.

Anyone watching?

Anyone care?

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Hansen Two year old champ. The show is starting to drag already.

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Laffit gets a nice round of applause.

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HRTV wins an award. Well deserved.

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In good judgment?

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I would love to see an award winner just say Thanks and leave it at that.

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Cot Cambell delivers the best speech of the night so far.

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William Mott Trainer of the year 2011

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Black Jack Blues wins the next award on the program.

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Juan Leyva gets props at the awards!

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Amazombi wins the sprint award.

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Bud Johnston wins an eclipse after 55 years in the bis

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Adena Springs top breeder.

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Animal Kingdom top three year old.

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Out the door / for all the awards results go to drf.com

[Dark Horse]

Animal Kingdom top three year old.

Wow.

[john230]

3rd female in a row to win Horse of the year- Havre De Grace

[TonyP]

Havre De Grace does not deserve HOY and this just shows how weak this is

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Other than acclamation who would you have chosen..

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Other than acclamation who would you have chosen..

That was the issue with 2011. There were no real standouts. Personally I would have voted for the two best horses at the moment. Frankel first and Black Caviar second. Of course this would have gotten a unkind response from DRF's Mike Watchmaker. http://www.drf.com/blogs/mike-watchmaker

[mikemca]

I think there is a stipulation that they have to run atleast once in the US to be eligible.IMO they should put more of an emphasis on a sturdy year long campaign rather than one big time win(Musical Romance,Animal Kingdom,Stacelita)

[str]

I think there is a stipulation that they have to run atleast once in the US to be eligible.IMO they should put more of an emphasis on a sturdy year long campaign rather than one big time win(Musical Romance,Animal Kingdom,Stacelita)

The Eclipse Awards are for North America. In Europe , the equivalent is the Cartier Award( I think that is it). I am pretty sure that Australia also has there awards.
I agree with you Mike, that more emphasis should be put on a more sturdy campaign but the spirit of the Breeders Cup was a championship series. That works out most years but a perfect storm seemingly brewed this year in a couple of the categories.
Havre De Grace won by default . Maybe Animal Kingdom as well. I think at the end of the day, the voters want to be sure and emphasize a big name race when declaring the winner. But to use the Woodward for THIS year is pretty lame. An historic race for decades, this years version was not much to talk about . They also want to recognize greatness and finishing 2nd and 3rd is not that. Kind of a shame though. Game on Dude type horses certainly deserve something IMO. But I guess it would be like crowning the Buffalo Bills for their Super Bowl games.