A total of 16 of the last 31 Preakness Stakes (G1) winners have been named champion 3-year-old male at the annual Eclipse Awards, the most recent being Triple Crown winner Justify in 2018.
The 2020 Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver was honored with the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old female that year, too.
Other Preakness winners voted 3-year-old champion are Real Quiet (1998), Charismatic (1999), Point Given (2001), War Emblem (2002), Funny Cide (2003), Smarty Jones (2004), Afleet Alex (2005), Bernardini (2006), Curlin (2007), Big Brown (2008), Lookin At Lucky (2010); I’ll Have Another (2012), California Chrome (2014) and American Pharoah (2015).
The filly Rachel Alexandra (2009), who became the first filly since Nellie Morse (1924) to win the Preakness, was voted Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old filly honors. She also defeated the boys when she won that year’s Haskell Invitational (G1) and Woodward Stakes (G1). She was the 18th Preakness winner to earn Horse of the Year.
Preakness/Eclipse Champions since 1937
From 1936-1970 American champions were named by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) and The Daily Racing Form (DRF). In 1971, The Daily Racing Form, the National Turf Writers’ Association (NTWA) and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations formed the Eclipse Awards. No champions were named prior to 1936.
1937 War Admiral1939 Challedon1940 Bimelech1941 Whirlaway1942 Alsab1943 Count Fleet1946 Assault1948 Citation1949 Capot1950 Hill Prince1953 Native Dancer1955 Nashua1957 Bold Ruler1958 Tim Tam1961 Carry Back1964 Northern Dancer1965 Tom Rolfe1967 Damascus1970 Personality1971 Canonero II1973 Secretariat1974 Little Current1977 Seattle Slew1978 Affirmed1979 Spectacular Bid1981 Pleasant Colony1986 Snow Chief1987 Alysheba1988 Risen Star1989 Sunday Silence1991 Hansel1993 Prairie Bayou1997 Silver Charm1998 Real Quiet1999 Charismatic2001 Point Given2002 War Emblem2003 Funny Cide2004 Smarty Jones2005 Afleet Alex2006 Bernardini2007 Curlin2008 Big Brown2009 Rachel Alexandra (*filly Eclipse Award winner)2010 Lookin at Lucky2012 I’ll Have Another2014 California Chrome2015 American Pharoah2018 Justify2020 Swiss Skydiver (*filly Eclipse Award winner)
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