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2025 Eclipse Awards: Scylla
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.
Brad FreeJan 04, 2026
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.
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For Japanese superstar Forever Young, twice bit in previous voyages to the United States, the third time paid for all.
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In August, Deterministic validated his nine-furlong Manhattan win, cutting back to a mile to win the Grade 1 Fourstardave. Back to back in big New York grass races – that makes Deterministic an Eclipse Award finalist.
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Book'em Danno is an Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding male sprinter of 2025 for a season in which he swept three graded stakes races at Saratoga Race Course.
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Thorpedo Anna entered 2025 with lofty expectations, having won eight stakes in 2024 and earning Eclipse Awards as outstanding 3-year-old filly and Horse of the Year. Even though her 4-year-old campaign did not quite stack up to the year before, it was a success.
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Rebel's Romance, a two-time Breeders' Cup Turf winner, won the Turf Classic at Aqueduct this year, before being upset by Ethical Diamond when second in the BC Turf at Del Mar. Off the strength of those two runs, Rebel's Romance finds himself a finalist for the 2025 Eclipse Award for outstanding male turf horse.
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Bentornato needed just 1:08.20 to establish himself as a finalist for an Eclipse Award for outstanding male sprinter of 2025. That was the time it took for him to win the $2 million Cygames Breeders' Cup Sprint over six furlongs Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
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John Velazquez became the first jockey in North America to surpass $500 million in career mount earnings in June as part of a 2025 season in which he also was the regular rider aboard unbeaten Breeders' Cup Juvenile hero Ted Noffey. The accomplishments have led to Velazquez being voted a finalist for the Eclipse Award as North America's outstanding jockey.
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After a victory in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, Notable Speech rallied to win the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar and firmly secure his spot as a finalist for the 2025 Eclipse Award for outstanding male turf horse.
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Many of the most important stakes races conducted in North America last year went through jockey Flavien Prat, who led all riders in graded wins as part of his push for a second straight Eclipse Award as outstanding jockey.