Other Eclipse Awards to Horses in Order of Their Presentation

2-Year-Old Filly: Super Corredora (KY), winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Trainer: John W. Sadler 
Owner: Spartan Equine Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds, Gardiner, Robert C. and Olszewski, Michael W. 
Breeder: Woodford Thoroughbreds
Other finalists: Cy Fair, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Spring; Explora, winner of the Oak Leaf and second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

2-Year-Old Male: Ted Noffey (KY). Four starts, four wins, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The early favorite for the 2026 Kentucky Derby.
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Owner: Spendthrift Farm LLC Owner Link
Breeder: Aaron & Marie Jones LLC
Ridden by John Velazquez
Other finalists: Brant, winner of the Del Mar Futurity; Gstaad, winner of the Breedesrs' Cup Juvenile Turf.

3-Year-Old Filly: Nitrogen (KY), graded winner on both turf and dirt, won nearly $2 million.
Trainer: Mark E. Casse
Owner: D. J. Stable
Breeder: D. J. Stable
Other finalists: Good Cheer, winner of the Kentucky Oaks; Shisospicy, top turf sprinter beat the boys in Breeders' Cup.

3-Year-Old Male: Sovereignty (KY)
Won the Fountain of Youth, Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Jim Dandy, Travers. Second in the Florida Derby
Trainer: William I. Mott
Owner: Godolphin
Breeder: Godolphin
Other finalists: Pennsylvania Derby winner Baeza; Preakness winner Journalism hit the board in all three Triple Crown races.
Junior Alvarado got a nod for his Kentucky Derby ride.

Female Sprinter: Shisospicy (KY), winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, AGS Music City Stakes, Mamzelle Stakes and others.
Trainer: Jose Francisco D'Angelo
Owner: Morplay Racing and Qatar Racing
Breeder: Bill Heiligbrodt & Corinne Heiligbrodt
Other finalists: Kopion, winner of the Derby City Distaff; Splendora, winner of the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

Male Sprinter: Book’em Danno (NJ) was dominant in the summer with four wins if five stakes including three wins at Saratoga.
Trainer: Derek S. Ryan
Owner: Atlantic Six Racing
Breeder: Gregory J. Kilka & Bright View Farm
Other finalists: Bentornato, winner of the Breeders' Cup Sprint; Nysos earned a 108 Beyer Speed Figure winning the Triple Bend.

Steeplechase Horse: Cool Jet (IRE), winner of G1s Commonwealth Cup and Colonial Cup.
Trainer: Jack Fisher
Owner: Riverdee Stable
Breeder: Mrs Deirdre McGrath
Other finalists: Swore, Zanahiyr

Older Dirt Female: Thorpedo Anna (KY), Grade 1s Apple Blossom and Personal Ensign topped her resume.
Trainer: Kenneth G. McPeek
Owner: Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. (J. G. Sikura), Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek), Mark Edwards, Judy B. Hicks
Breeder: Judy Hicks
Other finalists: Scylla capped off the year winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff; Splendora, winner of the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

Older Dirt Male: Forever Young (JPN), winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic, pushing his earnings to $20 million.
Trainer: Yoshito Yahagi
Owner: Susumu Fujita
Breeder: Northern Racing
Other finalists: Nysos, winner of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile; Sierra Leone, who finished in the money in 14 career starts.

Female Turf Horse: She Feels Pretty (KY), two wins and two seconds in two Grade 1s and two Grade 2s.
Trainer: Cherie DeVaux
Owner: Lael Stables
Breeder: Payson Stud
Other finalists: Gezora (FR), winner of the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf; Shisospicy, named in three Eclipse categories.

Male Turf Horse: Notable Speech (GB), winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile.
Trainer: Charles Appleby
Owner: Godolphin, LLC
Breeder: Godolphin
Other finalists: Deterministic, winner of Grade 1s Fourstardave and Manhattan; the globetrotting Rebel’s Romance.

Eclipse Awards to People

Champion Breeder: Godolphin-breds had over $27 million in progeny earnings and won 24 graded races.
Other finalists: Don Alberto Corporation bred the winners of over 120 races including Journalism, WinStar Farm produced 172 wins with eight graded winners.

Champion Owner: Godolphin. Its eighth Eclipse as top owner and its sixth straight. Need we say more? Owner, breeder of Sovereignty. Ranked first by earnings and fourth by wins.
Other finalists: Klaravich Stables, ranked 10th by wins and second by earnings; Spendthrift Farm, which had a remarkable run in latter 2025.

Champion Trainer: Bill Mott, trainer of Sovereignty, with 102 wins and over $16 million in earnings. His fifth Eclipse. He said, "It's good to be back up here."
Other finalists: Chad Brown won 197 races and over $24 million in earnings; Brad Cox with over $30 million in purses and 26 graded wins.
Before tonight these three trainers already had 11 Eclipse Awards.

Champion Jockey: Flavien Prat, who won over $40 million in purses and 46 graded stakes.
Other finalists: Irad Oritz Jr. winner of 334 races and three Breeders' Cup events; the veteran John Velazquez with 10 Grade 1 victories.
Combined, these three riders won 778 wins and over $100 million in earnings in 2025.

Champion Apprentice Jockey: Pietro Moran, Irish-born and Canadian raised, won the most races of any apprentice.
Other finalists: Christopher Elliott, son of Stuart Elliott; Yedsit Hazlewood, a native of Panama

Other Eclipse Awards

Bob Duncan, who's manned the starting gate for NYRA tracks for many years, was presented a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence after over 50 years in the game. Todd Pletcher presented.

Media Eclipse Award winners! https://www.ntwab.org/media-eclipse-award-winners-announced
Live TV & Feature TV (two awards): FOX Sports
News/Enterprise: Natalie Voss, Paulick Report 
Feature/Commentary: Jay Privman, DRF.com DRF
Photography: Skip Dickstein
Multimedia: Augusta Chapman, Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics Radio

Dan Piazza, National Handicapping Champion, received the Eclipse Award for 2025 Horseplayer of the Year.

The late, legendary journalist Ed Bowen was named as recipient of the Eclipse Award of Merit. Dell Hancock presents to his family.
Ed is considered to be the sport's greatest historian for the past 60 years. Among other achievements he was a script-writer for the Breeders' Cup Awards and Editor-in-Chief of BloodHorse.

Legendary race caller Trevor Denman was honored with a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence as his famous "scintillating" call of Zenyatta's Breeders' Cup win is played.

FanDuel NTRA Moment of the Year: Forever Young's Breeders' Cup win. Breeder Shunsuke Yoshida accepted.

Compiled by Dick Downey
Thanks to Equibase for statistics and connections.