Eclipse Awards for trainers come in waves, with the same person earning championship honors several years in a row. Since 1976, there have been a trio of three-peats and three four-peats. Brad Cox, Eclipse winner in 2020 and 2021, is the most recent trainer to win the award in consecutive years. Typically, these flurries of championships are followed by a trip down the other side of the peak. Some of the three- and four-time winners have come back years later to earn another championship, but only Todd Pletcher has multiple consecutive years of training Eclipses. Pletcher four-peated from 2004-07, then won two more in 2013-14. He’s not done yet. :: Full list of 2022 Eclipse Awards finalists, including profile stories Pletcher had a great 2022, posting a career-best mark in earnings, nearly $30.5 million, while winning 223 races, fifth-most in North America. His stable, based in New York, Florida, and Kentucky, had high-level performers in many divisions, and Pletcher is likely to top all trainers with three 2022 champions. Nest is a lock to be champion 3-year-old filly, while Forte will be named champion 2-year-old male and Malathaat is all but certain to earn championship honors as the season’s leading older female. Life Is Good won’t win an Eclipse, not in the year of Flightline, but could be a finalist for Horse of the Year. At 55, Pletcher has begun his 27th year training. The Aqueduct string hums through the winter, and Pletcher will be sending a steady stream of winners to Gulfstream and Tampa from his Florida base at Palm Beach Downs. The stable runs like clockwork, never missing a beat – angling for a record eighth Eclipse. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.