The 2024 Eclipse Award winners were announced after our February Awards Edition had already gone to the printer thus we missed congratulating Bruton Street US on winning another Eclipse Award! The Maryland-based group owns Snap Decision, who was named the 2024 Eclipse Award Champion Steeplechase Horse. The Eclipse Awards are presented annually by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB).
The 2014 Snap Decision, trained by Jack Fisher, is by Hard Spun and out of Salute, by Unbridled. Bred in Kentucky by the famed Phipps Stable, Snap Decision won both the Calvin Houghland Iroquois Stakes in Tennessee and the American Grand National in New Jersey, both Grade 1 races, in 2024. His 2024 season started with a win in the Grade 2 Temple Gwathney Hurdle Handicap in Virginia and finished with a third place in the Grade 1 Colonial Cup Stakes in South Carolina.
At the end of the 2024 season, Snap Decision had logged 18 wins, 9 seconds and 9 thirds from 47 starts during his eight year career. His current earnings are $1,338,334. While Snap Decision was an Eclipse finalist in 2022 as well, this is his first Eclipse win.
