Topic summary
Eclipse Awards
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Eclipse Award.
1971–present
The Eclipse Awards were created by three independent bodies in 1971 to honor the champions of the sport. 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 the Eclipse Awards.