Champion Older Dirt Horses: Accelerate and Unique Bella

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Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky–Issues, by Awesome Again), winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Classic, has been named champion older dirt male at the Eclipse Award Ceremony at Gulfstream Park. The Hronis Racing colorbearer, bred by Mike Abraham and trained by John Sadler, won five Grade I races in 2018. He was a $380,000 KEESEP yearling graduate. Accelerate is slated to retire to Lane's End Farm after Saturday's $9-million GI Pegasus World Cup.

'TDN Rising Star' Unique Bella (Tapit-Unrivaled Belle, by Unbridled's Song), the 2017 champion female sprinter, did enough in her four 2018 starts to secure another Eclipse as top older female. Heroine of the 2018 GI Beholder Mile S. and GI Clement L. Hirsch S., the Don Alberto Stable colorbearer is trained by Hall of Famer Jerry Hollendorfer. The $400,000 KEESEP yearling was bred in Pennsylvania by Brushwood Stable.

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