Having won the Breeders’ Cup Mile for a third successive year, when she beat Gio Ponti by one-and-three-quarter lengths at Churchill Downs on Saturday, Goldikova put her marker down for the Eclipse Awards.
A year ago Freddie Head’s mare was the landslide winner of the female turf horse category, when she received 172 votes, polling 131 more than the runner-up Ventura. The daughter of Anabaa is the latest in a long line of European-trained horses to win this award, following the likes of Pebbles, Miesque and Ouija Board.
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