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The winner of the $750,000 first-place prize and the title of 2013 DRF/NTRA Handicapper of the Year at the 14th annual Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship last January was Jim Benes, a 51-year-old professional horseplayer from Countryside, Ill.
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Manuel Franco proved to be among the top apprentices in New York in 2013, and for a rookie year in which he compiled more than $4 million in mount earnings, he is an Eclipse Award finalist for North America’s champion apprentice.
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Morton Fink’s nomination for an Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder is based primarily on the accomplishments of Wise Dan during 2013, but in a larger sense is a credit to one of the most successful series of breeding decisions executed in the past decade.
