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Originally Posted by richard burch
according to wikipedia:
Eclipse Awards
On Jan 26th, 2009, Curlin won the Eclipse Award for older male horse of the year and for the second year in a row was named Horse of the Year. Curlin joined Secretariat, Forego, Affirmed and Cigar as the only horses to win the award more than once since the Eclipse Award began in 1971
the awards were handed out in 2008 and 2009
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I wasn't able to find this exact passage on Wikipedia, but if it's out there, it appears that the person who wrote it is a little confused about the year the statue is awarded vs the year that it's awarded for. Also, it's apparent that the writer scanned the HOTY table and determined that the only horses to win the award twice did it back-to-back, thereby excluding John Henry.....a pretty good horse that won his 2 HOTY titles in non-consecutive years.
Wikipedia's great, but it's not Britannica, and it's certainly not the American Racing Manual.