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01_ CHC Chairman Teo Ah      F or the second year running, China Horse              Year-Old, he was also declared Horse of the Year,
Khing receives The Champion              Club took center stage at the Eclipse      the biggest accolade at the Eclipse Awards.
Three-Year-Old Male Award                Awards, scoring a record number of
on behalf of the co-owners               nominations and winning Champion             Before the results were announced, there had been
CHC主席张祖德代表联                  Three-Year-Old Male title and the biggest prize of     debates surrounding which horse should receive the
                             the night, Horse of the Year.                          prestigious Horse of the Year award. All three finalists
合马主接收“最佳三岁雄                                                                         (Triple Crown winner Justify, Accelerate [2018 Older
                                The 48th annual Eclipse Awards was held on          Dirt Male] and Monomoy Girl [2018 Three-Year-Old
马”奖项                         24 January 2019 at Gulfstream Park Racing and          Filly]) were well positioned to be named champions
                             Casino, Miami. Hailed as the Oscars of horse racing,   in their divisions after having secured five G1 wins,
                             the event brings together the best in the industry to  respectively. Eventually, Justify won the 2018 Horse
                             honour excellence in American thoroughbred horse       of the Year title by a wide margin, securing 77% of
                             racing.                                                the votes (191 out of 249 votes).

                                CHC became a first-time Eclipse award winner          Justify was also awarded the 2018 NTRA Moment
                             last year when Abel Tasman was named the 2017          of the Year that was revealed during the Eclipse
                             champion Three-Year-Old Filly. This year, the club     Awards ceremony, for his memorable Belmont
                             received a record number of five nominations in the    Stakes victory that gave horse racing its 13th Triple
                             categories of Horse of the Year, Two-Year-Old Male,    Crown champion. Justify’s breeder, John Gunther,
                             Three-Year-Old Male, Older Dirt Female, and            was recognised with the Outstanding Breeder
                             Owner. Triple Crown winner Justify subsequently        Eclipse Award, while his trainer Bob Baffert and
                             earned two of the trophies for CHC. Not only was       jockey Mike Smith were nominated for Trainer and
                             he the unanimous choice for the Champion Three-        Jockey of the year respectively.

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