The Eclipse Award voting
is underway and most of the winners seem pretty clear. Instead let’s take a
look at each division championship with New York Style. Here are my picks for
each Eclipse Award if only New York horses were considered. Those would be
horses that were stabled at a New York track with a New York trainer or had
significant races in New York. For each division you will first find the likely
Eclipse Award winner followed by the horses with the New York style.
New
York Style: 1) Shanghai Bobby 2) Overanalyze 3) Spurious
Precision
New
York Style: 1) So Many Ways 2) Dreaming of Julia 3) Kauai
Katie
New
York Style: 1) Union Rags 2) Alpha 3) Gemologist
New
York Style: 1) My Miss Aurelia 2) Questing 3) Contested
New
York Style: 1) Fort Larned 2) Much Macho Man 3) To Honor
and Serve
New
York Style: 1) Royal Delta 2) It’s Tricky 3) Awesome
Feather
New
York Style: 1) Trinniberg 2) The Lumber Guy 3) Emcee
New
York Style: 1) Dust and Diamonds 2) Contested 3) Emma’s
Encore
New
York Style: 1) Point of Entry 2) Samitar 3) Air Support
Is it possible that the
voters will concede the Horse of the Year award to Wise Dan and give this
divisional honor to Little Mike?
New
York Style: 1) Zagora 2) Winter Memories 3) Hessonite
New
York Style: 1) Fort Larned 2) Royal Delta 3) Shanghai
Bobby
New
York Style: 1) Ramon Dominguez 2) John Velazquez 3) Javier
Castellano
New
York Style: 1) Todd Pletcher 2) Chad Brown 3) Bill Mott
When the championship honors
are announced on the evening of Saturday, January 19th at Gulfstream
Park, the Eclipse Awards will have plenty of New York Style. It seems certain
that seven winners of the year-end honors will be from New York.