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Thank you, and good night from the Eclipse Awards.

HORSE OF THE YEAR: SOVEREIGNTY Other finalists: Forever Young, Journalism Congratulations!

Male Turf Horse: Notable Speech (GB), winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile. Trainer: Charles Appleby Owner: Godolphin, LLC Breeder: Godolphin Other finalists: Deterministic, winner of Grade 1s Fourstardave, Manhattan; the globetrotting Rebel’s Romance.

Female Turf Horse: She Feels Pretty (KY), two wins and two seconds in two Grade 1s and two Grade 2s. Trainer: Cherie DeVaux Owner: Lael Stables Breeder: Payson Stud Other finalists: Gezora (FR), winner of the BC Filly & Mare Turf; Shisospicy, named in three Eclipse categories.

FanDuel NTRA Moment of the Year: Forever Young's Breeders' Cup win. Breeder Shunsuke Yoshida accepts.

Older Dirt Male: Forever Young (JPN), winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic, pushing his earnings to $20 million. Trainer: Yoshito Yahagi Owner: Susumu Fujita Breeder: Northern Racing Other finalists: Nysos, winner of the BC Dirt Mile; Sierra Leone, ITM in all 14 career starts.

Legendary race caller Trevor Denman is honored with a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence as his famous "scintillating" call of Zenyatta's Breeders' Cup win is played.

1/2 Older Dirt Female: Thorpedo Anna (KY), grade 1s Apple Blossom and Personal Ensign topped her resume. Trainer: Kenneth G. McPeek Owner: Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. (J. G. Sikura), Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek), Mark Edwards, Judy B. Hicks Breeder: Judy Hicks

2/2 Other finalists Older Dirt Female: Scylla capped ofthe year winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff; Splendora, winner of the Filly & Mare Sprint.

Outstanding Trainer: Bill Mott, trainer of Sovereignty, with 102 races and over $16 million in earnings. His fifth Eclipse. Other finalists: Chad Brown won 197 races and over $24 million in earnings; Brad Cox with over $30 million in purses and 26 graded wins.

Champion Owner: Godolphin Its eighth Eclipse as top owner and its sixth straight. Owner, breeder of Sovereignty. First by earnings and fourth by wins. Other finalists: Klaravich Stables, 10th by wins and 2d by earnings; Spendthrift Farm, with a remarkable run in latter 2025.

Champion Breeder: Godolphin-breds had over $27 million in progeny earnings and won 24 graded races. Other finalists: Don Alberto Corporation bred the winners of over 120 races including Journalism, WinStar Farm produced 172 wins with eight graded winners.

The late legendary journalist Ed Bowen named for the Eclipse Award of Merit. Dell Hancock presents to his family. Ed is considered to be the sport's greatest modern historian. Other achievements include script-writer for these Awards and Editor-in-Chief at BloodHorse.

Steeplechase Horse: Cool Jet (IRE), winner of two G1s, the Commonwealth Cup and the Colonial Cup Trainer: Jack Fisher Owner: Riverdee Stable Breeder: Mrs Deirdre McGrath Other finalists: Swore, Zanahiyr

Male Sprinter: Book’em Danno (NJ) was dominant in the summer with four wins if five stakes including three wins at Saratoga. Trainer: Derek S. Ryan Owner: Atlantic Six Racing Breeder: Gregory J. Kilka & Bright View Farm Other finalists: Bentornato, Nysos

Dan Piazza, National Handicapping Champion, receives the Eclipse Award as the 2025 Horseplayer of the Year.

Female Sprinter: Shisospicy (KY), winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, AGS Music City Stakes, Mamzelle Stakes and others. Trainer: Jose Francisco D'Angelo Owner: Morplay Racing & Qatar Racing Breeder: Bill and Corrine Heiligbrodt Other finalists: Kopion, Splendora

Outstanding Jockey: Flavien Prat, with over $40 million in purses and 46 graded stakes. Other finalists: Irad Oritz Jr. winner of 334 races; the veteran John Velazquez with 10 Grade 1 victories. Combined, these three riders won 778 wins and over $100 million in earnings.

Media Eclipse Award winners! ntwab.org/media-eclipse-… Live TV & Feature TV (two awards): FOX Sports News/Enterprise: Natalie Voss, Paulick Report Feature/Commentary: Jay Privman, DRF.com DRF Photography: Skip Dickstein Multimedia: Augusta Chapman, Stephen Dubner