The American Champion Three-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.
5-571: The award originated in 1936 when both Turf & Sports Digest (TSD) the Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by these organizations. The only disagreement came in 1968, when Turf & Sports Digest named Forward Pass as champion whereas
10-884: The past performances of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America . The first edition of the DRF was published in Chicago in November 1894 and publishes up to 35 regional editions every day but Christmas. In cooperation with the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association , the Daily Racing Form selects
15-608: The Eclipse Award. As of 2021, Bob Baffert won the award 10 times as a trainer. No other trainer won the award more than twice. A ‡ designates co champion three-year-olds. Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form ( DRF ) (referred to as the Racing Form or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago , Illinois , by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes
20-552: The other two organizations voted for Stage Door Johnny . Champions from 1871 through 1935 were selected retrospectively by a panel of experts as published by The Blood-Horse magazine . There were co-champions chosen retrospectively for 1876, 1882, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1893, 1894, 1904, 1906, 1917, 1923, and 1932. The Daily Racing Form , the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and the National Turf Writers Association all joined forces in 1971 to create
25-575: The winners of the annual Eclipse Awards . In 1922, the DRF publishing company was sold to Moses Annenberg 's Triangle Publications , which would eventually be owned by Walter Annenberg . In 2007, the Wicks Group sold DRF to Arlington Capital Partners for nearly $ 200 million. Arlington sold the DRF 's parent company, Sports Information Group (SIG), to Z Capital Partners in 2017 for less than $ 100 million. In 2021, Z Capital merged SIG into
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