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The American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when both the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and Turf and Sports Digest (TSD) magazine began naming an annual champion ...
Ruffian missed the rest of the two-year-old season but her five wins were sufficient to earn her the Eclipse Award for American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. [1] Ruffian was also voted the 2-year-old "Horse of the Year" by Turf & Sport Digest as well as the 1974 "Filly 2 year old Champion" [Reference: Turf & Sport Digest January 1975. Front ...
She won eleven of those races (including the final six in a row) and set a new record for earnings by a filly. Her stakes victories included the Schuylerville, Frizette, Matron, and Spinaway. She was named the Champion two-year-old filly of 1961. [5] In her first race in 1962 as a three-year-old, she won an allowance race against older males.
The American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when the Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion.
One week later at Latonia, she became the second filly in its fourteen-year history to win the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes in which she again defeated males. [3] Mata Hari's performances in 1933 saw her retrospectively named American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly along with Edward R. Bradley's Bazaar. [4]
The Eclipse Awards were created by three independent bodies in 1971 to honor the champions of the sport. [1] Due to conflicting award winners for Horse of the Year in five years from 1949 to 1970, racing executive J.B. Faulconer gathered the interests of Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA), making them compromise on a unified set of awards, which would be called ...
Beholder was named American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly at the Eclipse awards for 2012, gaining 225 of the available 254 votes. [57] She won her second Eclipse Award the following year as American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly with 207 votes against 42 for runner-up Princess of Sylmar. [58]
American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (2022) Last updated on 2 July 2023 Wonder Wheel (foaled February 7, 2020) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2022 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and was named the 2022 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly .