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Gamine Gives Sire A Second Winner... 'TDN Rising Star' Essential Quality () did his part, ripping Michael Lund's 'TDN Rising Star' Gamine () was through his competition in three starts and clinching the something of a lightning rod in 2020, but she possessed arguably Award as 2-year-old male with a sizzling finish in the the most raw ability of any horse in training and while she GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile. (Tapizar) won her finished a distant runner-up to in the 3-year-old second in the last three years, adding to her filly category, she easily 3-year-old filly championship outdistanced Serengeti with the 2020 Eclipse as Empress (Alternation) to take champion older female. home the Eclipse for champion Purchased by Spendthrift for female sprinter. The $220,000 $9.5 million at Fasig-Tipton Keeneland September yearling November, the chestnut is turned $1.8-million Fasig- nearing her 6-year-old debut. Tipton Midlantic topper Other Wide-Margin became the second straight daughter of Into Mischief to Winners... both win the GI Breeders' Cup Vequist () provided Filly & Sprint en route to her sire from his very first crop a championship following on to the races, securing the the exploits of Covfefe in 2019. Eclipse as champion 2-year-old Trainer had his filly on the strength of hands on a third Eclipse winner victories in the GI S. for 2020 in the form of 'TDN Gamine | Sarah Andrew in September before turning Rising Star' Improbable (City Zip). Denied a potential Horse of the tables on GI Frizette S. the Year crown by his stablemate on the first Saturday in winner Dayoutoftheoffice (Into Mischief) in the GI Breeders' November, the burly chestnut had a phenomenal season of his Cup Juvenile Fillies. own, with victories in the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita, GI Whitney Channel Maker () capped a very productive S. and GI S. Knicks Go () also received a season with a third in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf and proved a smattering of first-place votes and has since returned to win the handy winner of the Eclipse Award as champion turf male. GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational. The soft-ground loving 6-year-old got underfoot conditions to suit when racing away to a 5 3/4-length win in Saratoga's GI 'Quality', 'Monomoy' Aid Cox's Cause... Invitational S. in August, but the going was substantially quicker when he led past every pole to take out the It was a banner season for trainer Brad Cox, whose four GI Turf Classic Invitational ahead of his Breeders' Cup winners on Breeders' Cup weekend helped secure for him his effort. He is set to represent the U.S. in the $1-million Middle first statuette as America's Outstanding Trainer. Distance Turf Cup in Saudi Arabia next month. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 2 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Tighter Contests... Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal). The final count of first-place votes The male sprint category was expected to come down to a was 115-106. Moscato (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) took home the choice between the horse with the more complete campaign Eclipse for Champion Steeplechase horse. versus a more brilliant and Among the human statistically faster runner whose categories, in addition to Cox, campaign was truncated. In the Irad Ortiz, Jr. was named end, the veteran outstanding jockey for the (Pleasantly Perfect)-- third year in a row; WinStar the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint Farm received the Eclipse for winner--got the nod over champion breeder; and Vekoma ( {Arg}), the Godolphin was named GI Carter H. and GI Met Mile outstanding owner. hero who was forced to miss the second half of the season. The Home Team... Whitmore received 132 first- Media Eclipse Awards were place votes to Vekoma's 83. The announced earlier this month. evening's most hotly contested Among the winners were the championship was the turf TDN's Joe Bianca and Patty female division. For the third Wolfe in the 'Audio/ straight year and for the fourth Channel Maker | Sarah Andrew Multimedia Internet' category time in six years, 'TDN Rising for a piece written and Star' Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) gave trainer Chad Brown narrated by Bianca and produced by Wolfe entitled ATo Hell and another Eclipse Award winner in the category. But it was a Back: Belmont Marks a Deserved Triumph for .@ razor-thin battle, as Rushing Fall--who sold for $5.5 million at FTKNOV--got just the better of GI Breeders' Cup Turf winner CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE BREEDERS’ CUP CHAMPIONS THAT WERE CROWNED ECLIPSE AWARD WINNERS FOR THEIR AMAZING PERFORMANCES IN 2020.

HORSE OF THE YEAR:

THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE: OLDER DIRT FEMALE: AUTHENTIC MONOMOY GIRL

MALE SPRINTER: FEMALE SPRINTER: WHITMORE GAMINE

TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE: TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY: ESSENTIAL QUALITY VEQUIST

VISIT BREEDERSCUP.COM/RECAPS-2020 TO VIEW THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP RACES. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 3 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

HORSE OF THE YEAR CHAMPION 3-YEAR-OLD MALE AUTHENTIC

(c, 3, Into Mischief--Flawless, by Mr. Greeley) $350,000 yrl >18 KEESEP O-Spendthrift Farm, MyRaceHorse Stable, Madaket Stables & Starlight Racing; B-Peter E. Blum LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert 2020 Record: 7-5-2-0, $7,170,000 Major 2020 Races GI Haskell Invitational S. ! GI ! GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree

Authentic | Breeders= Cup Eclipse Sportswire Over the summer many would have thought Tiz the Law (Constitution) would be taking home the award for top sophomore male, but Authentic seized the throne after a sensational fall campaign during which he took home the season=s two biggest prizes. A good-looking debut winner at Del Mar in November of 2019, the leggy bay demolished the field in the GIII Sham S. at the start of 2020, despite ducking in harshly in the lane. Following suit with a game victory in the GII San Felipe S. at Santa Anita in March, the $350,000 KEESEP acquisition tasted defeat for the first time at the hooves of Honor A.P. (Honor Code), finishing second in the June 6 GI Santa Anita Derby after breaking a step slow, traveling wide and drifting in the stretch. Off to a sharp start next out in the nine- furlong GI Haskell Invitational S. July 18, Authentic took the field wire-to-wire, holding off a determined Ny Traffic (Cross Traffic) by a nose. ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion 3-Year-Old Male: Authentic, 236; Tiz the Law, 2. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Many doubted his ability to see out the GI Kentucky Derby=s 10-furlong distance after that effort, but the May foal silenced all doubters with a front-running victory over favored GI Belmont S. and GI Travers S. victor Tiz the Law. The Bob Baffert pupil did not get his preferred position on the front end in the GI Preakness S. Oct. 3 and came up a neck short of champion filly Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) after a gritty stretch duel. Facing his elders for the first time including champion stablemates Improbable (City Zip) and (New Year=s Day) in the Nov. 7 GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic, Authentic went straight to the lead on a Keeneland oval favoring speed and ran his rivals off their feet for a 2 1/4-length score. Following that career-high, the colt was retired to the Spendthrift stallion barn, where he will stand alongside his red hot sire Into Mischief.

CHAMPION 3-YEAR-OLD FEMALE SWISS SKYDIVER (f, 3, Daredevil--Expo Gold, by Johannesburg) $35,000 yrl >18 KEESEP O-Peter Callahan; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Ken McPeek 2020 Record: 10-5-2-1, $1,842,980 Major 2020 Races GII Santa Anita Oaks ! GI Alabama S. ! GI Preakness S. TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree

Swiss Skydiver (R) beating Authentic in the Preakness | Horsephotos Swiss Skydiver dominated the 3-year-old filly division in 2020 and even defeated some of the top older males of her generation, making her the clear-cut choice. Kicking off her sophomore season with a third in the GII S. at Fair Grounds in February, the $35,000 KEESEP buy rebounded with a trio of decisive victories in the Mar. 28 GII Gulfstream Park Oaks, May 1 GIII Fantasy S. and June 6 GII Santa Anita Oaks. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 5 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Trainer Ken McPeek tried his charge against males for the first time in the GII Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland July 11, where she finished a valiant second to Art Collector (). Returning to winning ways with a facile victory in Saratoga=s prestigious GI Alabama S. Aug. 15, Swiss Skydiver checked in second to Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) next out in the delayed GI Longines Sept. 4. Despite that loss, McPeek and owner Peter Callahan had enough faith in their star filly to take on males yet again, this time in the GI Preakness S. Oct. 3. Swiss Skydiver dueled stride-for-stride with fellow champion and GI Kentucky Derby winner Authentic (Into Mischief) in the lane, turning back that foe in the final strides for a gutsy victory. The chestnut is the sixth filly to win the Preakness and the first since Hall of Famer Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d=Oro) in 2009. She was last seen finishing a disappointing seventh behind two-time Eclipse winner Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) after stumbling at the start of the GI Longines Breeders= Cup Distaff at Keeneland Nov. 7.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion 3-Year-Old Female: Swiss Skydiver, 218, Gamine, 20.

CHAMPION OLDER DIRT FEMALE MONOMOY GIRL (m, 6, Tapizar--Drumette, by Henny Hughes) $100,000 yrl >16 KEESEP; $9.5M HRA >20 FTKNOV O-M. Dubb, Monomoy Stables LLC, The Elkstone Group LLC (Stuart Grant) & Bethlehem Stables LLC; B-FPF LLC & Highfield Ranch (KY); T-Brad Cox 2020 Record: 4-4-0-0, $1,472,068 Major 2020 Races GII S. ! GI La Troienne S.! GI Longines Breeders= Cup Distaff TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree Monomoy Girl came into 2020 toting lofty expectations on top of an already gaudy record. After enjoying a truly spectacular sophomore year, annexing six of seven starts--five of them at the Grade I level--including the Longines Kentucky Oaks, Acorn S. and Longines Breeders= Cup Distaff, she spent the entire 2019 season on the sidelines because of a mild case of colic followed by a hamstring injury. The half-sister to GII Risen Star S. winner Mr. Monomoy (Palace Malice) finally marked her long-awaited return in a May 16 optional claiming event at , winning by 2 3/4 lengths. Heavily favored for the May 16 GII Ruffian S. at Belmont, the now 6-year-old edged away to a two- length score before adding a tally in Churchill=s GI La Troienne S. Sept. 4. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 6 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Cont. Early Impressions... Doing exactly what she was expected to do in her seasonal AShe helped to launch my career and she=s really helped finale in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff at Churchill, she employed launch [trainer] Brad Cox=s career as well. It=s hard to believe but her customary off-the-pace style to win by 1 3/4 lengths over she gave Brad his first Grade I win in the Ashland S. It=s been an Valiance (Tapit). Offered at the Fasig-Tipton November sale by amazing couple of years. She=s taken all of us on this her connections, the one-time $100,000 Keeneland November unbelievable ride.@--Agent Liz , BSW Bloodstock and Liz yearling flourished into a $9.5 million broodmare prospect for Crow her buyer Spendthrift Farm. ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion Older Female: Monomoy Girl, 23, Midnight Bisou, 4.

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CHAMPION OLDER DIRT MALE IMPROBABLE (c, 4, City Zip--Rare Event, A.P. Indy) $110,000 wnlg >16 KEENOV; $200,000 yrl >17 KEESEP O-WinStar Farm LLC, CHC Inc. & SF Racing; B-St. George Farm LLC & G. Watts Humphrey Jr (KY); T-Bob Baffert 2020 Record: 5-3-2-0, $1,810,000 Major 2020 Races GI Hollywood Gold Cup S. ! GI Whitney S. ! GI Awesome Again S. ! GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree Improbable raced on the bubble of stardom throughout his career, but it was in his 4-year-old season that he truly ascended to the top levels of the sport. Tabbed a >TDN Rising Star= when he won the S. by a dominating 7 1/4 lengths as a 2-year-old in 2018, the handsome chestnut ended his juvenile campaign with a win in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity. He performed creditably at three, with runner-up efforts in the GII Rebel S. and GI Arkansas Derby leading to a fifth-place effort in the GI Kentucky Derby and a sixth in the GI Preakness S.

Improbable | Benoit

Improbable opened 2020 in similar , finishing second behind Tom=s d=Etat (Smart Strike) in the Oaklawn Mile in April, but it was all blue skies and rainbows after that. He returned to the West Coast to score a 3 1/4-length victory in the GI Hollywood Gold Cup S. in June, then ventured back East to win the GI Whitney S. in August. While he uncharacteristically trailed the field for much of the GI Awesome Again S., Improbable uncorked a furious rally on the final bend, inhaling the field--including stablemate and fellow Eclipse finalist Maximum Security (New Year=s Day)--at the top of the stretch and bounding clear to a geared-down 4 1/2-length victory.

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Improbable | Joe Labozzetta Rushing Fall winning the Diana | Sarah Andrew

Cont. Improbable attempted that same rally just over a month later CHAMPION TURF FEMALE in the GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic at Keeneland, but was RUSHING FALL never able to reel in pacesetting stablemate Authentic (Into (m, 5, More Than ReadyBAutumnal, by Forestry) Mischief). His runner-up effort behind that champion 3-year-old $320,000 Ylg >16 FTSAUG; $5,500,000 BMP >20 FTKNOV was enough, however, to earn him the championship of his O-e Five Racing Thoroughbreds; B-Fred W Hertrich III & John D division. Fielding (KY); T-Chad Brown Improbable was retired following the Classic and begins his 2020 Record: 4-3-1-0, $$880,000 stud career next month at WinStar Farm at a fee of $40,000 Major 2020 Races S&N. GIIII Beaugay S. ! GI Coolmore Jenny Wiley S.! GI Diana S. ! GI Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Turf Early Impressions... TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree AI remember seeing him at Taylor Made in barn 22-23 and Second in the balloting for champion 2-year-old filly of her texting [WinStar General Manager] David Hanley and telling generation in 2017, >TDN Rising Star= Rushing Fall (More Than him, >I saw a very nice son of City Zip from the family of Hard Ready) joined the likes of former Chad Brown stablemates Lady Spun.= He has always been so well balanced, and had a presence Eli (Divine Park, 2017), Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), about him.@ 2018) and Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) to become the stable=s -WinStar Farm President and CEO Elliott Walden fourth Eclipse Award-winning turf female and second in succession for her legendary sire. To do so, she outpointed AWe spent a lot of time together post-foaling as he was a GI Breeders= Cup Turf heroine Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal) and dummy foal. I also raised his mother when I was the yearling Audarya (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who defeated Rushing Fall manager at Lane=s End. Improbable was a farm favorite, he was by a neck in the GI Breeders= Cup Filly and Mare Turf. such an athletic foal with striking looks and a larger than life Sportingly kept in training at five by Bob Edwards=s e Five personality. We spoiled him rotten when he came home from Thoroughbreds, the $320,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga steal got the clinic. My boys would call for him when he was a foal and he this year=s delayed Belmont meet off to a rousing start, handily would come to the gate to meet them.@ taking the GIIII Beaugay S. June 3 before becoming just the -Cooper Sawyer, previously manager at co-breeder Ian second horse to win consecutive runnings of the GI Coolmore Banwell=s St. George Farm Jenny Wiley S. at Keeneland. That victory made her a top-level scorer for the fourth year in a row and tied Rushing Fall with on four Keeneland stakes successes. The bay ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes continued her winning ways in the GI Diana S. at Saratoga Aug. Champion Older Male: Improbable, 218; Knicks Go, 8; Vekoma, 5; 23, just reeling in front-running Mean Mary (Scat Daddy) and Maximum Security, 4; Global Campaign, 1; Tom's d'Etat, 1, only a letter-perfect steer Pierre-Charles Boudot atop Audarya Whitmore, 1. cost her a perfect season.

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Cont. Rushing Fall made the short drive from Keeneland to Fasig- Tipton for the 2020 Night of the Stars sale and sold for $5.5 million to Jamie McCalmont, agent for M.V. Magnier, from the Indian Creek draft. Rushing Fall is set to be covered by (Ire) in 2021. AShe was wonderful from start to finish,@ bloodstock agent Mike Ryan told the TDN following her sale. AShe is the best filly I=ve ever bought and one of the best fillies I=ve ever seen. From a physical appearance standpoint, she was a 10 out of 10. I can=t wait to see the offspring out of her.@

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion Turf Female: Rushing Fall, 115; Tarnawa (Ire), 106; Magical (Ire), 8; Audarya (Fr), 5; Starship Jubilee, 2; Newspaperofrecord (Ire), 1; Sharing, 1.

CHAMPION TURF MALE CHANNEL MAKER (g, 6, English Channel--In Return, by Horse Chestnut {SAf}) $57,000 RNA yrl >15 KEESEP O-Wachtel Stable, Gary Barber, R. A. Hill Stable & Reeves ; B-Tall Oaks Farm (ON); T-Bill Mott 2020 Record: 8-2-0-2, $839,443 Major 2020 Races GI Breeders= Cup Turf ! GI Sword Dancer S. ! GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic S. ! TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree It=s not how you start. It=s how you finish. After a lackluster first half of 2020, Channel Maker ended the year in career form, posting back-to-back Grade I victories and a strong third--beaten only a length--in the GI Breeders= Cup Turf Nov. 7, good for three straight Beyer Speed Figures of 108 and the trophy for champion male turf horse. Off the board in his first four starts of the season, including a fourth-place finish in the GI Manhattan S. July 4, he crossed the wire fourth once again in the GII Bowling Green S. Aug. 1, and was moved up to third via disqualification. The chestnut continued his affinity for a soft going with a powerful, front-running score in the GI Sword Dancer S. at Saratoga Aug. 29, then added his second career victory in Belmont=s GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic S. Oct. 3, this time over firm turf.

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Cont. He gave his backers a good run for their money at odds of 9-1 in the Championships at Keeneland, gamely leading the field of 10 into the final furlong after enjoying a clear advantage into the stretch. He just got nosed out for second by the classy, globe- trotting MG1SW Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Adam Wachtel and Gary Barber purchased Channel Maker privately as a 2-year-old prior to the 2016 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf. R.A. Hill Stable and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing later joined the ownership line in the fall of 2018. Channel Maker, Canada=s champion 3-year-old colt and a full- brother to fellow Canadian champion Johnny Bear, has remained in training at Mott=s Payson Park base for a 7-year-old campaign and is being aimed at the $1-million Middle Distance Turf Cup on the Saudi Cup undercard Feb. 20. Channel Maker | Sarah Andrew

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes 60 Broad St. Suite 100 Champion Turf Male: Channel Maker, 180; Zulu Alpha, 17; Order of Red Bank, NJ 07701 Fax (732) 747-8955 (IRE), 15; Factor This, 7; United, 7; Gufo, 4; Domestic Phone (732) 747-8060 Spending (GB), 3; Arklow, 2; War of Will, 1; Voter Abstentions, 2. [email protected] We celebrate these two amazing 2020 Rush Eclipse Champions Ga– –ing mine Fall Congratulations to their connections on this well- deserved recognition.

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CHAMPION FEMALE SPRINTER GAMINE (f, 3, Into Mischief--Peggy Jane, by Kafwain) $220,000 Ylg >18 KEESEP; $1,800,000 2yo >19 FTFMAY O-Michael Lund; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert 2020 Record: 6-4-0-1, $1,003,000 Major 2020 Races GI Longines Acorn S. ! GI Longines Test S.! GI Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Sprint TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree

Gamine thrashed her rivals in the Filly & Mare Sprint | Horsephotos

>TDN Rising Star= Gamine (Into Mischief) proved the fleetest of the fleet among female sprinters in 2020, becoming the second consecutive of her all-conquering sire=s daughters to take home the hardware in the Female Sprinter division (Covfefe, 2019). The $1.8-million sales-topper at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale easily outdistanced the hard-knocking, dual-division finalist Serengeti Empress (Alternation) and GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint victress Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead). Gamine was second to Swiss Skydiver for the 3-year-old filly Eclipse. A successful pinhook, having brought $220,000 as a Keeneland September yearling in 2018, Gamine joined stablemates Nadal () and Charlatan (Speightstown) as early-season >Rising Stars= with a first-out romp Mar. 7, then crossed the line first in a two-turn Oaklawn allowance only to later be disqualified for a drug positive. She decimated her rivals in her next two starts, both around one turn, scoring by a Rachel Alexandra-like 18 3/4 lengths in the GI Longines Acorn S. going a mile at Belmont June 20 and again in the seven-furlong GI Longines Test S. at Saratoga Aug. 8, following in Covfefe=s hoofprints. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 12 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Ch. Female Sprinter cont. Gamine failed to see out the nine-furlong trip in the postponed GI Longines Kentucky Oaks, finishing third to Eclipse finalist Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) and champion Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil), but was back to her brilliant best in the F/M Sprint, sitting off the pace for the first time in her career before shooting past Serengeti Empress to take it by a record-setting margin of 6 1/4 lengths.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion Female Sprinter: Gamine, 219; Serengeti Empress, 13; Frank’s Rockette, 4; Guarana, 1; Voter Abstention, 1.

CHAMPION MALE SPRINTER WHITMORE (g, 7, Pleasantly Perfect--Melody=s Spirit, by Scat Daddy) O-Robert LaPenta, Ron Moquett and Head of Plains Partners; B-John Liviakis (Ky); T-Ron Moquett. 2020 Record: 7-3-2-0, $1,426,500 Major 2020 Races Hot Springs S. ! GIII Count Fleet Sprint H. ! GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. ! GI Breeders= Cup Sprint ! TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree Well back behind a fast pace, Whitmore enjoyed a rail- The hard-knocking Whitmore is a balm for the souls of all race skimming ride which put him in striking distance at the top of fans who long for the good old days of fan-favorite war horses. the lane. He tipped out for running room in upper stretch and The cantankerous gelding recorded the biggest victory of his the expectation of what was to come was palpable as track career with a resounding late-running score in the GI Breeders= announcer Kurt Becker Cup Sprint. It was the then 7- proclaimed, AHere=s Whitmore. year-old=s fourth effort in the Here=s Whitmore. Here=s Breeders= Cup. Whitmore,@ with increasing Whitmore=s early 2020 urgency. campaign followed a familiar Here indeed was Whitmore, pattern, as the chestnut won a who strode to the lead with third renewal of the Hot authority and kicked away to Springs S. while making his win by 3 1/4 lengths. fourth start in the six-furlong Neither of his fellow sprint event at the Oaklawn Park finalists, two-time Grade I winter base of trainer Ron winner Vekoma (Candy Ride Moquett. The following month, {Arg}) nor Volatile, raced he earned his third win in the beyond July and both made GIII Count Fleet H. just three starts in 2020. Whitmore was second behind Eclipse voters rewarded both fellow Eclipse sprint finalist Whitmore | Coady Photography Whitmore=s flashy Breeders= Volatile (Violence) in the GI Cup win and his longevity with a championship statue. Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. in July and, after off-the-board finishes in Whitmore is back in Arkansas and readying for another the GI S. and GII Phoenix S., the Breeders= Cup crowd campaign. dismissed the gritty gelding at 18-1 on championship weekend. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 13 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

AHe=s doing great,@ Moquett said of the now 8-year-old Whitmore, originally named Pleasant Mel (after his parents), champion. AHe writes his own story, so he can run as long as he was a product of an ambitious breeding strategy of two wants to run and he=s safe enough to do it. He=s in training at his generations. The planned inbreeding of Scat Daddy (at the time winter home in Hot Springs and we will point to the normal an unproven stallion) with Capture the Cat, creating a close races for him, which are the Hot Springs S. and the Count Fleet.@ cross to the prolific female blood Yarn, as well as inbreeding legendary males and Mr. P. The result was Melody=s Early Impressions... Spirit who manifested into a lesson learned/breeding mistake AI knew he had a strong will within the first day. He challenges creating far too in-bred high-strung behavior with a Quarter everybody all the time at everything. He likes to argue and he Horse physical. I bailed quickly and bred her at three. likes to impose his will upon My goal was to choose an others. If you can make that go entirely outcrossed stallion from being evil to being good, that stood 17 hands and had a you=ve got yourself a shot at long distance laid back, calm having a real good horse. I was nature. Pleasantly Perfect, worried because he was although quite a poor stallion . I=m ok with him being stat, was an ideal choice for dangerous to us because we are her nevertheless. trained to deal with it, but I didn=t The newborn dude, like the fact that he could be Whitmore, was very cocky and dangerous to himself. So it cost quite the athletic dude. His him his testicles. I thought that mother looked proud of him that would be a way to get him to and was run ragged keeping focus on what we needed done up with him. instead of what he wanted to do. While in training, Eddie It didn=t work that good, but it Whitmore and Laura Moquett | Coady Photography Woods spoke well of him, but I may have worked a little. was dispersing the majority of And yes. He still has that same attitude today. If you go back the equines I was trying to finance. Various parties pushed before the Forego and the Count Fleet and the Breeders= Cup strongly to let him go, so the rest is history. I watched his young Sprint and look at him being loaded in the gates, notice when he gallop videos and was very impressed by his low efficient fluid does his patented double-barrel kick right before he goes in long gait/action. But fate gave the glory to the team with him because he doesn=t want anyone behind him.@ now and they deserve every moment of the magic ride. He has -Trainer Ron Moquett become so and competitive, with his trademark bucking twice as he loads in the gate and cow kicks horses in his path. What a character!!! CAN’T WAIT TO GET YOUR -Breeder John Liviakis TDN BREAKING NEWS AND ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes RACE RESULTS? Champion Male Sprinter: Whitmore, 132; Vekoma, 83; Volatile, 16; Click Here to sign up for TDN Alerts Charlatan, 4; C Z Rocket, 3.

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CHAMPION 2-YEAR-OLD FEMALE VEQUIST (f, 2, Nyquist--Vero Amore, by Mineshaft) $120,000 RNA yrl >19 KEESEP O-Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable & Swilcan Stable, LLC; B-Swilcan Stables (KY); T-Robert Reid, Jr. 2020 Record: 4-2-2-0, $1,235,500 Major 2020 Races GI Spinaway S. ! GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies S. TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree

Vequist | Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire

Vequist cemented her status as the leader of what appeared to be an open division earlier in the fall with a decisive score in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Nov. 6. The dark bay finished second in her July 29 debut at Parx, but her connections clearly had plenty of faith in her after that effort, sending her to Saratoga for the GI Spinaway S. Sept. 6. She demolished the field that day, earning her diploma by 9 1/2 lengths and becoming her freshman sire=s first Grade I winner. Second to Dayoutoftheoffice (Into Mischief) as the favorite next out in Belmont=s GI Frizette S. Oct. 10, Vequist turned the tables on that rival next out at the World Championships at Keeneland, winning by two lengths at odds of 6-1.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Champion 2-Year-Old Female: Vequist, 212; Aunt Pearl (IRE), 24; Malathaat, 1; Voter Abstention, 1.

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The gray returned to that venue for the GI Breeders= Cup CHAMPION 2-YEAR-OLD MALE Juvenile Nov. 6, where he rallied from well back to register a ESSENTIAL QUALITY 3/4-length victory. Owned and bred by Godolphin, Essential Quality is out of GSP (c, 2, Tapit--Delightful Quality, by Elusive Quality) Delightful Quality (Elusive Quality), who is a half-sister to O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brad Cox champion juvenile filly Folklore (). 2020 Record: 3-3-0-0, $1,335,144 Accepting the award, Godolphin's Racing Manager Jimmy Bell Major 2020 Races said, AIt's always a pleasure to represent His Highness Sheikh GI Claiborne Breeders= Futurity S. ! GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile S. Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum. We would also like to thank TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree all the voters who voted for Essential Quality as champion 2- Essential Quality started on his path towards the roses and year-old. And a thank you to Brad Cox and to the entire team for stamped himself as the top juvenile male of the year with a the patience they showed in developing the colt. In all fairness, perfect 2020 season. Tabbed a >TDN Rising Star= off a dominant Brad told us early on that he thought he had a real runner on his graduation in his Sept. 5 unveiling at Churchill Downs, the Brad hands. To his credit, the horse didn't make his first start until Cox trainee scored another good-looking win in Keeneland=s September. Sheikh Mohammed also enjoyed following along his GI Claiborne Breeders= Futurity S. Oct. 3. progress and he greatly enjoyed his run in the Breeders' Cup. Certainly, I'd like to thank the folks at the farm for raising these ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes top athletes. We're all anxiously awaiting his 3-year-old debut, Champion 2-Year-Old Male: Essential Quality, 231; Jackie’s and we can only hope he is as happy and healthy as he is today.@ Warrior, 6; Fire At Will, 1.

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CHAMPION STEEPLECHASER OUTSTANDING OWNER MOSCATO (GB) GODOLPHIN LLC (g, 9, Hernando {Fr}--Alba Stella {GB}, by ) 2020 Record: 361-80-54-48, $5,703,770 €42,000 ylg >12 GOFORB O-Bruton Street-US; B-Miss K Rausing (GB); T-Jack Fisher 2020 Record: 3-2-0-1, $100,000 Major 2020 Races GI A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase S. TJCIS PPs ! Equineline catalog-style pedigree

Moscato=s perennial leading connections had a stranglehold on this year=s steeplechase category, with Mike Hankin, Charlie Fenwick and Charlie Noell=s Bruton Street-US owning all three finalists and Jack Fisher having also conditioned Rashaan (Ire) (Manduro {Ger}). Bruton Street and Fisher were also responsible for 2017 Eclipse winner Scorpiancer (Ire) ( {Ire}). Finishing behind Scorpiancer in both the GI Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle S. and GI Grand National Hurdle S. in 2019, Moscato kicked off his championship campaign during a Sheikh Mohammed at Keeneland in 2019 | Keeneland photo compressed steeplechase season with a dominant title defense in the GIII Temple Gwathmey Hurdle H. in Middleburg. He added For the first time in nine years and for the third time overall, a highest-level win in the GI A. P. Smithwick Memorial Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum's Godolphin LLC was Steeplechase S. at Saratoga July 23, but settled for third behind recognized at the Eclipse Award ceremonies as America's Rashaan in the GI New York Turf Writers Cup H. Aug. 20, Outstanding Owner. reversing their finishes in the Temple Gwathmey. Horses carrying Godolphin's royal blue colors got their pictures taken 80 times in 2020, good for a remarkable strike rate of 22.2%. The operation was represented by no fewer than a joint- best eight winners at the graded stakes level (tied with Gary Barber) for a broad swath of conditioners, highlighted by the Brad Cox-trained Essential Quality (Tapit), who won the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and the GI TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile a handful of furlongs away from Darley America's base at Jonabell Farm. Essential Quality also earned the champion juvenile title for the 2020 season. Another Godolphin homebred Fair Maiden (Street Boss), closed the season on a high note with an upset victory in Santa Anita's GI La Brea S. for trainer Eoin Harty. Godolphin's three top-level wins was good for a second- place tie behind Klaravich Stables' four Grade I tallies.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Outstanding Owner: Godolphin, LLC, 78; Spendthrift Farm, LLC, Moscato | Susie Raisher MyRaceHorse Stable, Madaket Stables LLC, and Starlight Racing, 56; Klaravich Stables Inc., 47; Gary Barber, 23; Sackatoga Stables, 7; End Zone Athletics Inc., 6; Peter Callahan, 4; Michael Dubb, ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Monomoy Stables, LLC, The Elkstone Group LLC, and Bethlehem Champion Steeplechaser: Moscato (GB), 155; Snap Decision, 28;, Stables, 3; Calumet Farm, 1; Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, 1; M Rashaan (Ire), 21; Iranistan, 2. Voter Abstentions, 32. and M Racing, 1; Maggi Moss, 1; Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey 1; Gary and Mary West, 1. Voter Abstentions, 8. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 17 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

'TDN Rising Star' Mystic Guide (Ghostzapper) and Pixelate Top horses in 2020 bred by WinStar include: Swiss Skydiver (City Zip) were trained by Mike Stidham to victories in the (Daredevil) (GI Preakness S. and GI Alabama S. heroine and GII Jim Dandy S. and GII Del Mar Derby, respectively, while GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up); Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) Brendan Walsh sent out the comebacking Maxfield (Street (GI Kentucky Oaks); Global Campaign () (GI Woodward Sense) to win the GIII Matt Winn S. Darley America's H.); and Lights (Curlin) (GI Coaching Club American Oaks). aforementioned Eclipse Award-winning juvenile was also Troutt and Bill Casner, founders of Excel Communications, responsible for Shared Sense, who annexed the GIII and started WinStar Farm after purchasing Prestonwood Farm in Oklahoma Derbys for Cox. 2000. Troutt bought out Casner and became the sole owner 10 Essential Quality is likely to begin his assault on this year's years later. WinStar is the home of leading sires such as Triple Crown in the GIII Southwest S. at Oaklawn Feb. 15, while Distorted Humor, More Than Ready, Speightstown and Maxfield has races like the $20-million Saudi Cup and G1 Dubai Constitution. World Cup as potential targets. WinStar Farm, breeder of 2003 dual classic winner , received its first Eclipse Award as Outstanding Owner after capturing the 2010 GI Kentucky Derby with Super Saver and OUTSTANDING BREEDER 2010 Belmont S. with Drosselmeyer. WinStar also campaigned WINSTAR FARM 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify in partnership. OUTSTANDING TRAINER BRAD COX 2020 Record: 903-328-216-173, $18,983,832

Kenny Troutt | Adam Coglianese

Leading the way with five Grade I victories in 2020, including a win in the second leg of the Triple Crown and a GI Kentucky Brad Cox after winning the 2020 Kentucky Oaks | Horsephotos Oaks exacta, WinStar Farm was recognized as Outstanding Breeder. It=s hard to believe that as of the morning of Apr. 7, 2018, Brad It was the third Eclipse Award for Kenny Troutt=s operation and Cox had yet to garner his first Grade I win. Later that afternoon, second as Outstanding Breeder (2016). the Cox-trained Monomoy Girl would win the GI Central Bank WinStar ranked second overall via breeder earnings in 2020, Ashland S., thus propelling her to wins in the GI Kentucky Oaks trailing only Calumet Farm, capturing 148 victories from 1,106 and GI Breeders= Cup Distaff, as well as a 3-year-old filly starters, and $9,221,764 in earnings. championship.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Outstanding Breeder: WinStar Farm, LLC, 128; Peter Blum Outstanding Trainer: Brad Cox, 106; Bob Baffert, 69; Steve Thoroughbreds, LLC, 52; Calumet Farm, 45; Godolphin, 6; Charles Asmussen, 44; Chad Brown, 8; Christophe Clement, 1; Michael Fipke, 1; Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, 1. Voter Maker, 1; Peter Miller, 1; Rom Moquett; 1, Bill Mott, 1; Barclay Tagg, Abstentions, 5. 1; Wesley Ward, 1. Voter Abstentions, 4. TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 18 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Fast forward to 2020, the stalwart tempo continued with yet Citizen (Proud Citizen), Shared Sense (Street Sense), Dot Matrix another championship run by the chestnut, who spent the (Freud), Warrior=s Charge (Munnings), Night Ops (Warrior=s entire 2019 season on the sidelines before mounting her epic Reward), Mr. Monomoy (Palace Malice), Bonny South return during a season gripped by a pandemic. And while (Munnings) and Wells Bayou (lookin At Lucky). Monomoy Girl once again proved to be a force for Cox in 2020, Rounding out the year second in earnings behind Steve she was far from the only horse propelling the Cox team. The Asmussen ($20,162,064), who had over twice the number of latest renewal of the Breeders= Cup at Keeneland, which starters and made half as much money per start ($8,851 vs. punctuated an already impressive racing season for the 40-year- $21,023), Cox ended 2020 with a 24% strike rate, finishing in the old, who tied Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella=s record of money 55% of the time. four victories during one Breeders= Cup with victories by Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) (Longines Distaff), Knicks Go (Paynter) (Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile), Essential Quality (Tapit) (TVG Juvenile) OUTSTANDING JOCKEY and Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) (Juvenile Fillies Turf). In IRAD ORTIZ, JR. addition to a sparkling performance at the Breeders= Cup, Cox 2020 Record: 1271-301-225-185, $23,450,726 earned his second Kentucky Oaks victory this season with It's Irad Ortiz, Jr.'s world and we're all just living in it. The 28- Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil), who landed the blanket of lilies at year-old from Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico who has grown up into a odds of 15-1. Also among horses to win at the graded level for superstar before the racing world's eyes continued his Cox in 2020: Arklow (Arch), Factor This (The Factor), Beau Recall dominance in 2020, leading to a third consecutive Eclipse Award (Sir Prancealot {Ire}), Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Blended for Outstanding Jockey.

Irad Ortiz, Jr. celebrates aboard Whitmore after winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint | Breeders' Cup/Eclipse Sportswire TDN NORTH AMERICAN • PAGE 19 OF 19 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • JANUARY 29, 2021

Outstanding Jockey, Irad Ortiz Jr. cont. While his total earnings dipped over $10 million from his 2020 OUTSTANDING APPRENTICE JOCKEY sum, that can be almost entirely attributed to the COVID-19 ALEXANDER CRISPIN pandemic. In addition to the cancellation of much of the racing 2020 Record: 539-103-73-77, $2,194,030 calendar through March and April and dramatic purse cuts that plagued the entire year, Ortiz was particularly cautious about the coronavirus, spending more than a month out of the saddle from Mar. 19 to Apr. 25. Nevertheless, he still paced all jockeys last year by banking over $23 million and once again proved his tireless work ethic by riding 1,271 horses despite his five-week break, a number that trailed just Tyler Gaffalione and Luis Saez among riders in the top 25 in earnings. Yet again leading the country in total wins, he also racked up 27 graded stakes wins-- just one behind Flavien Prat for top billing--from 100 mounts and clearly led all jockeys with 52 stakes scores. Following up on capturing his first GI Breeders' Cup Classic victory toward the end of 2019, Ortiz started 2020 off with a bang by piloting home Mucho Gusto () in the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational S. He added top-level triumphs in the GI Whitney S. aboard Champion Older Dirt Male Improbable (City Zip), Alexander Crispin celebrates a four-win day at Laurel | MJC GI Jockey Club Gold Cup on Happy Saver (Super Saver), Continuing the influx of Puerto Rican jockeys transferring their GI Breeders' Cup Sprint with sprint champion Whitmore skills adroitly to racing in the mainland U.S., Alexander Crispin (Pleasantly Perfect) and GI Hollywood Derby on Domestic made a name for himself on the mid-Atlantic circuit in 2020. The Spending (GB) (Kingman {GB}). In addition to Whitmore, he also 22-year-old, who studied at the famed Escuela Vocacional Hipica scored with Golden Pal (Uncle Mo) in the GII Breeders' Cup Agustin Mercado Reveron jockey school that produced John Juvenile Turf Sprint to bring his career World Championships Velazquez, both Ortiz brothers, Manny Franco and myriad other wins to an even dozen. successful Puerto Rican riders, Crispin first landed at Turfway Park in March and bounced around to Belterra Park and Indiana ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Grand before settling in the mid-Atlantic at Delaware Park in the Outstanding Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr., 162; Joel Rosario, 54; John summer. That's where he scored his first stakes victory aboard Velazquez, 14; Florent Geroux, 3; Tyler Gaffalione, 2; Flavien Prat, Singlino (Uncle Lino) in the $100,000 First State Dash Sept. 26, 1; Luis Saez, 1. Voter Abstention, 1. and he kept his momentum going at Laurel, finishing the year with over 100 total victories and more than $2 million in earnings, both second among all apprentices, while boasting a 19% strike rate.

ECLIPSE AWARDS 2020 First-Place Votes Outstanding Apprentice Jockey: Alexander Crispin, 79; Yarmarie Correa, 74; Luis Cardenas, 38; Charlie Marquez, 15; Cristian Torres, 3; Sunday Diaz. Jr., 1 Voter Abstention, 1.

Irad Oritz Jr. aboard Mucho Gusto, winner of the 2020 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational | Adam Coglianese