Sierra Leone, winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic in November, won 3-year-old male honors at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night. Horse of the Year was to be announced later in the evening. Trained ...
After losing the Kentucky Derby (G1) by a nose, it figured that Sierra Leone's drive for the 3-year-old male championship would come down to the final furlong of America's richest dirt race.
If there was any doubt that 2024 belonged to 3-year-olds, those concerns faded after the Breeders' Cup Classic. Fierceness, who beat Sierra Leone in the Travers Stakes (G1), was the 5-2 favorite ...
McPeek, who completed rare double of winning Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks in same year, was not named top trainer during 54th annual Eclipse Awards ceremony.