Eclipse Award of Merit

Updated on Nov 04, 2023

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The Eclipse Award of Merit is part of the American Eclipse Awards in Thoroughbred horse racing. The industry's highest honor, it is presented to an individual or entity displaying outstanding lifetime achievement in, and service to, the Thoroughbred industry.

First awarded in 1976, the Eclipse Award of Merit is voted on by a panel of representatives from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association.

Winners

2015 - Leonard Lavin

2014 - Tom Durkin

2013 - D. Wayne Lukas

2012 - Cot Campbell

2008 - Alice Headley Chandler of Mill Ridge Farm

2007 - No Award Presented

2006 - John A. Nerud

2005 - Penny Chenery

2004 - The Cella Family

2003 - Richard L. Duchossois

2002 - Ogden Phipps / Howard Battle

2001 - Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. / Pete Pederson

2000 - Jim McKay

1999 - No award presented

1998 - D. G. Van Clief, Jr.

1997 - Bob and Beverly Lewis

1996 - Allen E. Paulson

1995 - James E. "Ted" Bassett III

1994 - Alfred G. Vanderbilt II

1993 - Paul Mellon

1992 - Joe Hirsch / Robert P. Strub

1991 - Fred W. Hooper

1990 - Warner L. Jones, Jr.

1989 - Michael Sandler

1988 - John Forsythe

1987 - James B. Faulconer

1986 - Herman Cohen

1985 - Keene Daingerfield

1984 - John R. Gaines

1981 - Bill Shoemaker

1980 - John D. Shapiro

1979 - Frank E. Kilroe

1978 - Ogden Mills Phipps

1977 - Steve Cauthen

1976 - Jack J. Dreyfus

References

Eclipse Award of Merit Wikipedia

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