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Champion three-year-old male: Animal Kingdom

Posted: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:18 PM

CHAMPION THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE: ANIMAL KINGDOM

CHAMPION THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE: ANIMAL KINGDOM

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by Frank Angst

After three different horses won the Triple Crown races, it seemed the 2011 three-year-old male championship would be determined with important races in the summer and fall.

But summer and fall came and went with no three-year-old male taking command. In a year that no three-year-old male would win more than one Grade 1 race at distances of one mile or longer, Animal Kingdom’s spring accomplishments stood out as the division’s most impressive.

Victories in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) and Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes (G3), along with a close runner-up finish to Shackleford in the Preakness Stakes (G1), proved enough to secure the Eclipse Award. An injury sustained in Animal Kingdom’s sixth-place Belmont Stakes (G1) finish, where he was bumped early, forced him to miss the remainder of the season.

In September, trainer Graham Motion told THOROUGHBRED TIMES he thought Animal Kingdom had done enough to secure the championship.

“Ultimately, he won the classic race that everyone wants to win in what was his first start on the dirt,” Motion said. “I think people have overlooked that. He came back in his second start ever on dirt and was just beaten in the Preakness, and then we all know what happened in the Belmont.”

Animal Kingdom is the first Derby winner to take the 1 1⁄4-mile classic in his first start on dirt and is the first since Needles in 1956 to win the race off a six-week layoff. He also is the first champion for his sire, Leroidesanimaux (Brz) and the first champion and first classic winner for trainer H. Graham Motion, who previously was best known for scoring upset victories in the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) with Better Talk Now and Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) with Shared Account.

For all winners of the 2011 Eclipse Awards, click here.

Frank Angst is senior writer of THOROUGHBRED TIMES

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