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THE LEGACY OF ECLIPSE

The most coveted award in thoroughbred racing -The Eclipse Award-Horse of the Year-started in the NTRA in 1972 and since that time 40 most memorable and honorable contenders of our generation have been under consideration. Why is this award named 'Eclipse"?Read More

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zxswordxz · You sure you mean 30 centuries? Second paragraph. · 160 days ago ·

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Mary Z. · Interesting account. Never heard that about the hooves before. · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · maybe because he was the first PROMINENT undefeated horse who then proved to be every bit as capable as a sire...THE prototype sire for all horses. · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · Owner was almost an outcast as the result of both his "class" and heritage being IRish, not to mention the fact that his "wife" ran some of the biggest houses of ill repute in the country. · 160 days ago ·

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cocoa2 · I prefer Matchem · 160 days ago ·

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cocoa2 · An artist was hired to take measurements on Eclipse's body. When the measurements are put next to today's horse they are nearly the same. Shows how the Thoroughbred has grown · 160 days ago ·

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edgaropena · One of my Top 5 favorites. Ironically, he is 208th all time with a 7.7 rating. · 160 days ago ·

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cocoa2 · Ironically? What is ironic? · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · TOTAL PRIZE money going 18 for 18 was 2863.50 pounds · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · Hooves are show in the book Eclipse: the story of the rogue, the madam and the horse that changed racing." by Nicholas Clee · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · Used to be a race at Ascot called the Eclipse Foot and one of them would be anually given, but not retained, to the winning connections. · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · fellow named Sainbel was supposed to have measured Eclipse as being 16.2 hands but new data suggest he measured the wrong horse. Racing historians belived that it was closer to 15.5 hands. Also the most famous portrait of Eclipse has several discrepancies in the description of his markings comparing the portraits versus the descriptions. · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · Horses DIRECTLY related to Eclipse Septre, Pretty Polly,Phar Lap, Arkle, Nijinsky, Secretariat and Dubai Millenium · 160 days ago ·

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AmbitiousD · Thank you for writing about Eclipse. I find the breeding of Eclipse very interesting. It is funny to think that the Duke of Cumberland's breeding experiments with racehorses gave us both Herod and Eclipse, who together (mostly Eclipse) are the foundation sires of nearly all modern thoroughbreds. The third was Matchem who can account for the remaining fraction, primarily from the success of Man o' War. · 160 days ago ·

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AmbitiousD · Another interesting thing I have read is that Eclipse was nearly destroyed after birth because he was so "mis-proportioned" in confirmation (by that day's standards). A primary reason why he was spared was because he carried the blood of the Godolphin and Darley Arabians. So much history, I love it · 160 days ago ·

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northport · interesting article, thanks for posting · 160 days ago ·

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travel_vic · ONE major thing missing from most historical accounts: All thoroughbreds are related to THREE foundation sires, TRUE, but this does not count all the other sires, (approximated at over 200) that died out and are no longer, or NEVER WERE listed in the family stud book started by Weatherby (and the same family still owns all right to the same) in 1791 many many years after the "breed" was founded. No record is also availablve of the 200 plus royal mares which the kings family introduced at the start of the Jockey Club in 1750. Mares names are particularly hard to find since they kept chaning. You will find an instance of the same mare having had three different names. when she raced and when she was owned by different breeders later on....SO MUCH about the early history of the breed is really a mystery of the breed and the sanitized version of the stud book being all inclusive is the story that the connections put out JUST LIKE BASEBALL was "invented" in Cooperstown New York!! · 160 days ago ·

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cocoa2 · 15.5 hh? Travel_vic, please explain, I've always seen hands measured in hands.inches, so 15.5 would then be 16.1 · 159 days ago ·

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Sysonby · I actually thought the phrase "Eclipse first . . . the rest nowhere" was apocryphal but it's accurate and involved a bet his owner won. In those days, if a horse finished too far behind the winner in any heat, they were disqualified. In this particular set of heats, by the last heat there were only a couple horses who hadn't been disqualified and Eclipse running. In the last heat, he beat them so badly they were disqualified as well and so were in fact "nowhere". · 159 days ago ·

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travel_vic · the DEFINITIVE book on Eclipse stated that the animal was proably 15.5 hands in height. · 159 days ago ·

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digidot · I thought hands were measured 1 hand for every 4 inches, 15.5 would be impossible... unless you mean 15.2... · 159 days ago ·

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travel_vic · half is 1/2 or 0.5 not matter what you are measuring. If each hand is 4 inches 2/4 still registers 0.5 · 159 days ago ·

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hshfarms · TV... They might have described Eclipse as in the 18th century, we however do not recognize 15.5 as a measurment. 15.2 is the correct way to say that and there is now arguement there. A horse described as 15.1 does not mean the horse is the 60.4 inches tall it means that it is 61 inches tall. Anyone with any equine knowledge at all knows that. · 159 days ago ·

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hshfarms · *No arguement there... not now* · 159 days ago ·

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travel_vic · a half to me is a half. You can transfer it to any nomeclature you want but that will not change my understanding of that notation. · 159 days ago ·

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mjc066 · Sorry fan friends if the hands measurement of 18th century is different than those of our thoroughbreds. Thank you for clearing that up. I wrote this and used over 25 resources, but in some of my research, information seemed more plausible from a consensus of several rather than one. The businessman that purchased Eclipse was said to have been a sheep herder and in another Wildman is said to be a meat salesman. I am thinking the comment below from AmbitiousD about Eclipse nearly being destroyed when he was young probably establishes Wildman as a meat salesman-and Eclipse could have been on the menu, given his odd look and frustrating temperament. For fans like myself that want to know more, I would like to start writing regularly about important upcoming events, awards, stakes or the horses they were named for called "Who Wants History?" THE LEGACY OF ECLIPSE was to make a 300+ year old horse and his story give even more meaning of importance to the Eclipse Award-Horse of the Year. I truly hope you enjoyed bringing Eclipse back to life, even if for just a few short moments while reading his legacy. · 159 days ago ·

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travel_vic · in days when an inch was the distance of a king's thumb and a furlong was the amount of plowing a horse could do within a certain time, accurate measurement must have been truly hard to come by. · 159 days ago ·

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rafirox · Why is Eclipse rated so low???? 7.7??? · 158 days ago ·

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cocoa2 · because we know almost nothing about his racing career and there is no way to rank him comparative to modern thoroughbreds. I give him honorable mention along with Silky and Kincesm · 158 days ago ·

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' Hall's ' Eclipse - Pedigree

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Eclipse	Marske	Squirt
		The Ruby Mare
	Spilletta	Regulus
		Mother Western
Phoebe	Regulus	Godolphin Arabian
		Grey Robinson
	Cottingham Mare	Cottingham
		Warlock Galloway

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