Moment of the Year Voting Open on Twitter, NTRA.com

Thirteen of the past year's most significant moments in Thoroughbred racing are now available to vote on as the 2017 National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year. Votes can be cast on NTRA.com or on twitter by retweeting the @NTRA account or by using official hashtags. The NTRA Moment of the Year will be announced during the 47th Annual Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park Jan. 25. Voting closes Jan. 10 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

The eligible 2017 moments are as follows:

#ArrogatePegasus – Arrogate kicks off his 4-year-old campaign with a resounding 4 3/4-length win in the inaugural running of the $12-million GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational, the richest race in the world.

#ArrogateDWC – After a slow break, Arrogate makes a last-to-first rally under Mike Smith to win the $10-million G1 Dubai World Cup over Gun Runner by 2 1/4 lengths and become North America's all-time earnings leader with $17,064,800 in only his eighth career start.

#AlwaysDreaming – Favored Always Dreaming cruises to a 2 3/4-length victory over Lookin At Lee to win the 143rd running of the GI Kentucky Derby.

#CloudComputing – In only his fourth start, Cloud Computing wears down a game Classic Empire to win the 142nd GI Preakness by a head in front of a record Pimlico crowd of 140,327.

#BensCatRIP – Four-time Maryland Horse of the Year and multi-million dollar-earner Ben's Cat is euthanized due to complications from colic surgery. In an eight-year racing career, Ben's Cat tallied 26 stakes victories and 32 wins from 63 starts with earnings in excess of $2.6 million.

#AccelerateSanDiego – Accelerate goes gate-to-wire for an easy 8 1/2-length win in the GII TVG San Diego H. at Del Mar over a field that includes heavily favored Arrogate, who finishes a dull fourth off wins in racing's two richest events.

#LadyEli – Despite breaking through the gate before the start, Lady Eli wins the GI Diana S. at Saratoga by a head over Quidura. It is her second Grade I win of the season and fifth overall, coming nearly a year after her miraculous return from a life-threatening bout with laminitis.

#PennyRIP – Helen “Penny” Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and one of the few women of her era to vault to the front ranks of Thoroughbred racing, dies at her home in Boulder, Colo.

#RememberCamarero – Hurricane Maria ravages Puerto Rico, leaving more than 800 Thoroughbred racehorses stranded at Hipódromo Camarero in Canóvanas with limited food and water. A relief effort coordinated from the U.S. mainland sends a Swift Air charter jet with nearly 20 tons of
alfalfa and veterinary supplies.

#RacingWins – Updated and modernized regulations regarding the withholding and reporting of pari-mutuel proceeds adopted by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) become official with publication in the Federal Register.

#GunRunnerBCGun Runner goes to the front shortly after the break and never trails as he defeats Collected by 2 1/4 lengths to win the 34th running of the $6-million GI Breeders' Cup Classic.

#RememberSLR – Forty-six horses perish while dozens more are injured and hundreds are evacuated during a wildfire that
ravages the San Luis Rey Downs training center in San Diego County. As barns are engulfed in flames from the Lilac Fire, several heroes emerge, with horsemen risking their own well-being to prevent an even worse catastrophe. In the immediate aftermath, an overwhelming response from the horse racing community–including hundreds of volunteers that appeared at the primary evacuation site at Del Mar the
next morning, tens of thousands of dollars' worth of supplies donated, and more than $650,000 in cash raised.

#JVBRIP – Jack Van Berg, the Hall of Fame trainer who oversaw Alysheba to victories in the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, as well as the 1988 Breeders' Cup Classic, dies at 81 in Little Rock, Ark. Van Berg ranks fourth all-time among trainers in North America with 6,523 wins and career purse earnings of $85,925,482.

 

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