The Eclipse Award for Champion Older Dirt Female Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a filly or mare, four years old and up, for performances on dirt and main track racing surfaces. In 1971, it became part of the Eclipse Awards program as the award for Champion Older Female Horse .
5-537: In 1936 both the Turf & Sports Digest magazine and Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by both of these organizations. Whenever there were different champions named, the horses are listed side-by-side with the one chosen as champion by
10-462: The Daily Racing Form noted with the letters (DRF), the one chosen by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations by the letters (TRA) and the one chosen by Turf and Sports Digest by the letters (TSD). Prior to 1971 this award was referred to as "Champion Female Handicap Horse" or "Champion Handicap Mare". The Daily Racing Form version was open to any female horse, and was given to some Champions at
15-692: The National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association , the Daily Racing Form selects the winners of the annual Eclipse Awards . In 1922, the DRF publishing company was sold to Moses Annenberg 's Triangle Publications , which would eventually be owned by Walter Annenberg . In 2007, the Wicks Group sold DRF to Arlington Capital Partners for nearly $ 200 million. Arlington sold
20-761: The Racing Form or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago , Illinois , by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America . The first edition of the DRF was published in Chicago in November 1894 and publishes up to 35 regional editions every day but Christmas. In cooperation with
25-587: The age of three, such as Tosmah , Twilight Tear and Busher . Champions from 1887 through 1935 were selected retrospectively by a panel of experts as published by The Blood-Horse magazine . In 2015, the Daily Racing Form , the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and the National Turf Writers Association decided that the award would be renamed and awarded to older female horses proficient in dirt and main track races. Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form ( DRF ) (referred to as
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