Ten of the most thrilling, memorable, and momentous events from Thoroughbred racing in North America last year have been nominated for the 2024 FanDuel Racing-NTRA Moment of the Year, a distinction determined by fan voting and recognized at the annual Eclipse Awards.

Voting is now open on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) website, NTRA.com, and via X (formerly Twitter), where every retweet or use of the official hashtag for the moments as presented on the @NTRA account will be counted as one vote. The FanDuel Racing-NTRA Moment of the Year will be recognized during the 54th annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards Presented by John Deere, Keeneland, and The Jockey Club at The Breakers Palm Beach in Florida on January 23, 2025.

To vote on the NTRA website, go HERE. Fans are permitted to vote for multiple moments but there is a limit of one vote per moment for each X account. Subsequent votes from an account will be disqualified. Votes for the poll must be submitted by January 15 at 11:59 p.m. (ET).

The eligible 2024 moments were selected to demonstrate the various equine and human achievements, as well as human emotions, exhibited throughout the year. Events that fans can choose from are listed as follows, along with the designated hashtag which can be used to vote:

#frankie6straight—Frankie Dettori rides six straight winners on the Santa Anita Derby Day card, including two stake races. The 54-year-old Italian rider had mounts in 11 of the 12 races that day, with his winners paying as much as $21.60.

#annaoaks—Thorpedo Anna wins the Kentucky Oaks by 4 3/4 lengths in a strong wire-to-wire performance over a sloppy Churchill Downs main track. It was the first Kentucky Oaks win for both trainer Kenny McPeek and rider Brian Hernandez Jr.

#danderby—Mystik Dan and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. make it a rail trip to win the 150th Kentucky Derby in a tight three-horse photo finish. Trained by Kentucky resident Kenny McPeek, Mystik Dan’s win gave both the trainer and rider their first Kentucky Derby victories. In winning the Derby, McPeek became just the third trainer to win both the Derby and Oaks in the same year.

#seizethepreakness—Seize the Grey gives 88-year-old legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas and innovative microshare ownership group MyRacehorse a front-running win in the Preakness Stakes. It was Lukas’s seventh Preakness win, while MyRacehorse’s 2,570 owners celebrated their first.

#dornochbelmont—Dornoch wins the 156th Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, the first time the final jewel of the Triple Crown is run at the Spa. Trainer Danny Gargan won his first Belmont for a large ownership group that included former Major League Baseball All-Star and World Series champion Jayson Werth.

#emmajaynejockey—Emma-Jayne Wilson, a top Canadian jockey, breaks the all-time female jockey lifetime purse earnings record held by Hall of Famer Julie Krone. With her win aboard Perfect Lady Bee, Wilson reached $90,153,109, surpassing Krone’s mark of $90,126,584.

#fiercetravers—Champion Fierceness and Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez hold off filly Thorpedo Anna in a thrilling Travers Stakes finish. The 2023 Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old male had won Saratoga’s Jim Dandy Stakes in his prior start for owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher.

#annabcdistaff—Thorpedo Anna dominates the Breeders’ Cup Distaff field at Del Mar and puts a cap on her 2024 campaign that featured six wins in seven starts. In a year of firsts for her trainer, Thorpedo Anna gave Kenny McPeek yet another, as the Distaff win was his first in a Breeders’ Cup race.

#sierrabcclassic—Sierra Leone saves his best for last and wins the Breeders’ Cup Classic to lead a 1-2-3 finish for 3-year-olds. The son of Gun Runner captured the Risen Star Stakes and Blue Grass Stakes to begin the year and placed in four consecutive graded stakes before his Classic triumph.

#flavienstakesrecord—Jockey Flavien Prat establishes a record 56 graded stakes-winning rides in a year when he wins the Grade 2 Mathis Mile at Santa Anita aboard King of Gosford. Prat surpassed the previous record of 55 set by Hall of Famer Jerry Bailey in 2003.

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