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The statistical case simply doesn't exist for Bill Mott to be an Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding trainer. It hasn't for decades and never will again. But we all know, at least in our hearts, that the numbers only carry so much weight, that piling up wins has everything to do with opportunity and approach.
Cool Jet did not just beat his rivals in three graded stakes in Virgina and South Carolina in the spring and fall of 2025. He trounced them. Those victories have made Cool Jet a finalist for the Eclipse Award as the nation's champion steeplechase horse of 2025.
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It was, in fact, a down year for Chad Brown. Nearly every horse trainer on the planet would kill to have a Chad Brown down year, which ended with Brown named as a finalist for the Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer.
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Brad Cox during 2025 won more purse money than any North American trainer and more races and graded stakes than all but two, landing himself as a finalist for the Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer.
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In slightly more than three months in 2025, Swore went from a maiden race winner to a multiple stakes winner over hurdles. With that meteoric rise, Swore is a finalist for the Eclipse Award as the nation's champion steeplechase horse of 2025.
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Four-year-old Nysos notched four graded stakes victories in five 2025 starts, defending the West Coast with relentless precision and quietly putting together one of the best campaigns of his class over the course of eight months.
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Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables enjoyed another solid year in 2025 to again place the stable among the Eclipse Award finalists for leading owner.
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At the end of another stellar campaign, Sierra Leone came within a half-length of one of racing's most mythical achievements.
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If a massive Thoroughbred conglomerate can also be a tight-knit family operation, Spendthrift Farm is such a farm, and it rode its connections to success as both an owner and breeder in 2025.
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Scylla was always in the thick of it against high-class competition in 2025, and though she won just one race, her timing was as impeccable as her pedigree.
