With a 6-for-7 record last year, he won four grade 1s, only one fewer than Bricks and Mortar. The two other Horse of the Year finalists also look poised to earn championships in their respectiveВ divisions.Mitole, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) to conclude 2019, is a certainty to take home the male sprinter prize. He won races across the country from 1 1/8 miles to 1 1/2В miles and earnedВ $6,723,650, the most for a horse who competed strictly on the grass in the U.S. It was in that division that he was untouchable last year, capped by a victory in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T). Ortiz won his first Eclipse in 2018, and Brown has won three straight.Other finalists include the partners who raced Bricks and Mortar, owners Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence, and the horse's breeder, George Strawbridge Jr.Bricks and Mortar is a sure thing in one Eclipse Award category: male turf horse.

Ortiz's mounts earned more than $34 million, and Brown's stable amassed over $31 million. and trainer Chad Brown-were also announced as respective finalists and are widely expected to win. 23 at the 49th annual Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park.The jockey and trainer who teamed with Bricks and Mortar-Irad Ortiz Jr.

Three finalists are chosen in each Eclipse classification.Bricks and Mortar, considered the favorite for Horse of the Year, went 6-for-6 in 2019 while racing exclusively on turf 3-year-old Maximum Security won three grade 1 races, including the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) over older foes and Mitole excelled as a dirt sprinter from six furlongs to a mile.Д«esides Horse of the Year, all three are likely to win other awards, which will be presented the evening of Jan. 4 announcement of the finalists for the 2019 Eclipse Awards largely yielded the expected, including in the most coveted Horse of the Year category, where Bricks and Mortar, Maximum Security, and Mitole were selected by voters.Д®stablished in 1971, the Eclipse Awards determine North American championships for Thoroughbred racehorses and individualsВ as determined by votes cast by members of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, whose voters include racing officials and Equibase representatives.

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